I'm confident there's a way to get hardware keycodes on OS X. There is on every other UI platform that I know of. That's the best way to solve this.
Regards, Anthony Liguori On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > > On 04.08.2013, at 20:52, Programmingkid wrote: > >> >> On Aug 4, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> >>> On 4 August 2013 18:53, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Aug 4, 2013, at 5:39 AM, Peter Maydell wrote >>>>> Right, but I don't have to specify anything about any other >>>>> key on the keyboard, why should command be special? >>>> >>>> The command key is used to send commands to an application. When >>>> the user runs Mac OS X in QEMU, and the host operating system is >>>> Mac OS X, this can cause problems. >>> >>> Yes, I understand the problem. Why is this any different to >>> the similar issue with the menu-key or the Windows key in Windows >>> (where you also might want to pass it through to the guest, >>> or have it handled outside the guest). >> >> I don't use QEMU on a PC, so I don't have experience with this issue. But it >> does sound like the problem I had on Mac OS X. For anyone who uses QEMU on >> Windows, is the control key used to send commands to QEMU, and sent to the >> guest operating system? I'm wondering if someone out there uses a Windows >> guest on a Windows host can help us with this issue. >> >>> >>>>>> Do you have your own idea as to how to handle the command key? >>>>> >>>>> "Should the QEMU UI use the menu-accelerator key for menus or >>>>> should it pass it through to the guest" is a generic UI front-end >>>>> problem; any solution should not be specific to a single UI, >>>>> we should handle it the same way for all front-ends. >> >> The problem with this idea is each UI has its own implementation library: >> SDL, GTK, Cocoa. Each UI would have to have its solution coded differently. >> There is no one size fits all solution. I honestly don't know if this is an >> issue with the SDL and GTK UI's. > > The argument is that the user experience and configuration methods should be > as close as possible / reasonable across the different UI backends. > > > Alex > >
