On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 11:37:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Jim C. Brown" > > > >I personally feel that a scrollable window is not very useful unless your > >host > > resolution is smaller than your guest resolution. Hard to see what the > > point is > > Or the same size. Don't forget, Windows XP will cover up part of the window > even when the GTK version switches to 'full screen'. > > And a lot of times, guest resolution will be higher. Some things just seem > to expect 1024x768 or 1280x1024 (or whatever) resolution. > > A scrollable window is just a nice fall back if nothing else is convenient. > > Sometimes, full screen is just too darn inconvenient. Personally, I can't > stand full screen even with VMWare. I like being able to easily access my > desktop when I want to, be able to read some data and type it into the > guest, and so on. (Without having to switch screens back and forth) > > Not everybody in the world uses a 128x1024 screen. Or even 1024x768. > > Some, such as myself, still use 800x600. I do it out of necessity. I have > poor eyesight and don't have the spare cash (or desk space!) for a 21 inch > monitor. And LCD monitors tend to have too high a native resolution. With > my current 17" monitor, I simply can't handle anything beyond 800x600.
why not use a virtual desktop of larger size and pan the mouse to the current 'view' which can be 800x600 or even less if your bad eyesight requires that ... (on X you can change that with CTRL-ALT-+/- and the mouse will be handled properly, including pan ranges) best, Herbert > So, a scrollable window makes using qemu (or vmware) more convenient. > > Sure, scaling the window so the guest thinks it's 1024x768 (or whatever) > when it's really much smaller, is probably a better choice. As would be the > video card providing custom sizes (700x400, or whatever) so XP will think > that's what the display really is, and the actual qemu/vmware window > wouldn't have to be scrolled, scaled or even full screened. > > But scroll windows are a good 'if nothing else works' kind of situation for > most people, and useful for some of us. > > > > > Anyways, this is a version of gtk2.c which gives the wanted scrolling > > feature. > > I just started on this so expect ease-of-use bugs. :D Should work on > > windows > > as well, but I have not been able to test this myself yet. > > Unfortunately, I can't test it for you on a Windows host. > > A bit of a long story, but at the moment, I'm stuck with a single hard drive > and cd burner. I can't access my second hard drive, which is where qemu and > my test OS images are stored. > > Sorry. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
