Re: [Qemu-devel] rfb patch and mouse movement

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Jim C. Brown wrote:

> Then, in theory, if we could tell the guest X11 server to not do
> acceleration, the problem would go away?

Yes. I tested this with Windows 98 and ME, but I am dumb enough not to
know how to do that with X11.

> If so, that would also work for a Windows guest, tho the method of
> execution would probably be difficult.

Start/Preferences/Mouse Settings/Acceleration, set to "None".

> > > Does pressing Ctrl-Alt (or Ctrl-Shift??) to ungrab the mouse, then
> > > realiging the host and guest pointers, and then regrabing the mouse
> > > work? This is what I do w/ my no-sdl patch.
> >
> > This doesn't work yet with rfb9, because Ctrl-Alt doesn't alter the
> > state, i.e. the mouse updates are still forwarded after pressing
> > Ctrl-Alt, and even after a switch to the console or serial.
>
> Is this due to a limitation of VNC (in which case we might say, Ctrl-A
> Ctrl-A does the switch), or is it merely due to a lack of support in the
> code (that someone else could add easily by adding a few lines of code)?

This is a limitation of the author ;-) Seems like a good idea, though.

Ciao,
Dscho