On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:25:34PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 09:58:16PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 01:15:43AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > I don't yet think this is a convenient place to build things (I > > cannot seem to get to a second desktop), but it looks as if it is > > now set up to be able to build 32-bit. > > Meh, every setting is in a different place, and "tuned" to look as > if nothing happened. With the vmware option I now have 1024x768 and > I can get to 4 desktops. That is adequate. > Turned out I was having mouse problems in qemu - in slackware and fatdog I got desktops, but when I clicked on things the mouse stopped working and I seemed to be stuck in the guest unless I managed to use the keyboard to get out, or used ctrl-alt-fn to go to a tty and kill qemu.
Two part solution - icewm traps ctrl-alt-g which otherwise restores the mouse and lets ou tab to a host window, instead it starts the gimp if qemu is not running (didn't seem to do anything at all if qemu was running). Adding a ~/icewm/keys file containing only a comment fixed that part, but clicking still did not work. Adding '-usb -usbdevice tablet' to my qemu args solved that, the guest desktops now work well. Not sure why I did not need that for xubuntu. Also, '-net nic -net user' is still the default and does not need to be specified. Case closed. ;-) But now I've got to try slackbuilds for texlive (can you believe slackware still ships tetex ?) to see if my code to find the fonts works there, and also to try some CJK OTF/TTF fonts I found in 'buntu and slack. Oh well, I wasn't in any great hurry to release my updated tex test scripts. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
