On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 18:27:00 +0000 KatolaZ <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 01:18:34PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Fsmithred and I have put a heckofa lot of time into this, and > > frankly need help from everyone who can reproduce this problem > > (Fsmithred can't). > > > > The problem is this: When you run either Refracta or Devuan Jessie > > Beta 2 in a Qemu guest (on a Void Linux host), run the GUI, and > > click the mouse in the guest so that the mouse is captured by the > > guest: > > > > 1) You cannot get the mouse pointer to go outside the guest window, > > whether or not you press the ungrab hotkey. > > > > 2) Pressing the hotkey that would ordinarily get you to another > > workspace on the host doesn't work. > > > > 3) As a result, your only way of using other programs on the host > > is to: a) Log out of the gui so you're confronted with the login > > window, b) Press the ungrab key combo, and c) move the mouse where > > you want it to go. > > > > > Hi, > > it looks like whatever-desktop-envinroment you are using on the *host* > system is grabbing the default hot-key sequence to exit from qemu > (which is Ctrl+Alt). You may try to start qemu with either "-alt-grab" > or "-ctrl-grab", which would change the ungrab sequence to > "Ctrl-Shift-Alt" or "Right-Ctrl", respectively. Or instead you can try > to execute qemu from an X session without a DM (i.e., started with > "xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :1"). Thanks KatolaZ, I tried -ctrl-grab, -alt-grab, and neither ON THE DEVUAN QEMU GUEST, and the results were the same. The host uses Openbox. Next time I shut everything down and restart X, I'll try it with Xfce and fvwm ON THE HOST and see if that changes things. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt December 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
