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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [BUG] GTK terminal is broken
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To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> maybe most developers will already have noticed that the terminal output
> in QEMU's GTK user interface is broken. As far as I know, it never worked,
> but as there are working alternatives, I did not care much and forgot to
> report the issues.
>
> See these snapshots which show the problems with QEMU's GTK terminals:
>
> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/test/bugs/qemu-gtk-demo1.png
>
> Here the first line of the QEMUmonitor is only partially visible.
> Tested with Cygwin/X on W64 host, QEMU running on Debian Linux.
> Other X servers (e.g. native X on Debian Linux) don't show this
> problem.

It's a GTK/Cygwin/X bug.

We use a vbox without anything particularly fancy happening.  Looks like
something is calculating layout incorrectly.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/test/bugs/qemu-gtk-demo2.png
>
> This shows crippled output of "help" in the QEMU monitor
> (look for "default frequency" at the bottom of the page).
> Tested with several X servers.
>
>
> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/test/bugs/qemu-gtk-demo3.png
>
> This shows crippled output in the QEMU serial console.
> The Linux kernel boot messages are hardly readable.
> Tested with several X servers, x86 and mips kernels,
> GTK 2 and GTK 3.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> StefanW.