Re: [Qemu-devel] scrollable window

[Ashish Naik <ashishn@mahindrabt.com>]

I got the magic to work  finally :)

Windows 2000 Pr is running fine and increased resolution that increased the
window size and I am comfortable with it.

I am using Q to run Qemu which has good feature like saving the state so
that I don't have to reboot again which takes time.


Thanks and Regards,
Ashish Naik


> From: Ashish Naik <ashishn@mahindrabt.com>
> Reply-To: <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:20:56 +0530
> To: <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] scrollable window
> 
> HI,
> 
> I am a user of Qemu trying to run Windows 2000 on my G4 Powerbook. I am not
> very comfortable with the small qemu window and want to make it bigger. But
> this fails if I try to resize the window by dragging it. The qemu crashes if
> I do so.
> 
> Having fullscreen mode either is not of help as I cant return to OS X using
> Command-tab. Is there a way out?
> 
> I suspect that if I increase the quest resolution, fonts will become too
> small to read with 12" screen. I have not been able to test this as   my
> Windows installable has failed so far. I am trying right now and will try to
> increase the guest resolution.
> 
> I think the qemu window should open with 80% of available screen size. Is
> that difficult to achieve?
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Ashish Naik
> 
> 
>> From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
>> Reply-To: <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
>> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:58:35 -0400
>> To: <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
>> Subject: [Qemu-devel] scrollable window
>> 
>> I personally feel that a scrollable window is not very useful unless your
>> host
>> resolution is smaller than your guest resolution. Hard to see what the point
>> is
>> really... especially if you want to use full screens and mouse pointer
>> grabbing. Besides, it just looks ugly. I feel the conventional qemu window
>> simply looks more natural.
>> 
>> Anyways, this is a version of gtk2.c which gives the wanted scrolling
>> feature.
>> I just started on this so expect ease-of-use bugs. :D Should work on windows
>> as well, but I have not been able to test this myself yet.
>> 
>> Should work with the latest gtk patches and files, just substitute that
>> gtk2.c (the scrolless one) with this version.
>> 
>> Current issues:
>> 
>> No fullscreen support. (Having a scrolled window in fullscreen mode may not
>> make a lot of sense anyways, but resizing the window and getting rid of the
>> scrollbars should be done.) Ctrl-Alt-F is recognized and its usage is
>> untested
>> and likely to cause breakage. :D
>> 
>> When resolution of guest is smaller than the window, the window should
>> arguably be resized. Right now one just sees extra grey areas in the right
>> and
>> bottom sides of the window.
>> 
>> The window can't be made smaller than 720x400.
>> 
>> Arguably, the scrollbars should disappear if the guest resolution completely
>> fits into the window - but this may be a matter of preferance.
>> 
>> When moving the mouse, the "viewport" should probably move as the mouse moves
>> around. Right now it just moves into the edge and disappears, requiring that
>> the grab be ended and the scrollbars manually adjusted in order to see the
>> mouse pointer
>> again. This is very difficult to do without some sort of guest OS support
>> though.
>> This would be vastly easier if mouse grabbing was not done. But then
>> one would have problems with the host and guest pointers getting out
>> of sync, which has been a well discussed topic.
>> 
>> --
>> Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
>> Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.
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