Re: qemu
On 4 Mar 2011, at 06:49, Matthew King wrote: [...] If qemu has not grabbed my mouse/keyboard (and maybe if it has, I wouldn't be surprised) it will, when running under whatever passes for a window manager on my laptop these days, quit without hesitation, deviation or repetition when I press Alt-F4. There are places in the world where "Are you sure?" messages should be taken out and tortured before being shot. This is not one of them. If you will insist on using a desktop environment that's a half-arsed cheap knock-off of Windows, you shouldn't be surprised if it manages to suck even harder than Windows.
Re: qemu
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 08:49:13AM +0200, Matthew King wrote: > And while I'm on the subject, qemu has an in-built console. If you > type help it lists all the commands you can use. It lists more than one > screen's worth and does not, as far as I can see, let you use a pager > or view the contents which have scrolled off the top. This sounds like a delightful re-implementation of the decision which dumps out help text (or --help text) to stderr, meaning one has to jump through hoops in order to read more than the last screen's worth of it. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpLFzb0AXmxW.pgp Description: PGP signature