From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DrZwm-0002RY-1K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:26:08 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DrZwd-0002Nd-Nm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:26:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrZwc-0002GX-0R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:25:58 -0400 Received: from [210.18.48.4] (helo=smtp.mahindrabt.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DrZmt-0005hW-T3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:15:56 -0400 Received: from [10.162.2.123] ([203.145.159.37]) by smtp.mahindrabt.com (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6ABD85d013272 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:43:23 +0530 Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:37:45 +0530 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] scrollable window From: Ashish Naik Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 > Reply-To: > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:20:56 +0530 > To: > 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" >> Reply-To: >> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:58:35 -0400 >> To: >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> Qemu-devel mailing list >> Qemu-devel@nongnu.org >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel >