[Qemu-devel] Re: [5309] Reintroduce TEXT_CONSOLE_FIXED_SIZE and TEXT_CONSOLE for resizable vc's.

[Jan Kiszka]

andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> 2008/11/2 Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>:
>> Ryan Harper wrote:
>>> * Andrzej Zaborowski <address@hidden> [2008-09-23 22:37]:
>>>> Revision: 5309
>>>>           http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5309
>>>> Author:   balrog
>>>> Date:     2008-09-24 03:32:33 +0000 (Wed, 24 Sep 2008)
>>>>
>>>> Log Message:
>>>> -----------
>>>> Reintroduce TEXT_CONSOLE_FIXED_SIZE and TEXT_CONSOLE for resizable vc's.
>>>>
>>>> This partially reverts r4812 to fix an issue highlighted by Ryan Harper
>>>> with all vc's being fixed size which prevented backends with resizable
>>>> window (curses) from displaying okay.
>>> Excellent!  This fixed -curses mode for me.
>>>
>> ...but it breaks setting the monitor etc. consoles to reasonable sizes
>> in case the graphical console is too small (e.g. the Musicpal uses
>> 384x192 pixels). Is there no way to address both issues?
> 
> -monitor vc:800x600 should cause the monitor to be
> TEXT_CONSOLE_FIXED_SIZE, i.e. like before this commit.  Maybe

Yes, this works around it.

> vc:80Cx25C should be default for all text consoles when using SDL and
> for -curses vc should be default (currently the default is a mix).

Sounds reasonable, given that the regression of the previous version
only hit ncurses if I got this correctly. Will you patch this?

Thanks,
Jan

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