On 2016-12-29 12:27, KatolaZ 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").
>
> My2Cents
>
> KatolaZ
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Testing just now for Steve and am able to move the cursor freely from
guest to host and back again. Release key was required earlier this
month. Go figure . . .
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