From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 1 09:29:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7173F1065672 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:29:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from mail.itac.at (mail.itac.at [91.205.172.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB1208FC15 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [91.205.172.21] (helo=webmail.bluelife.at) by mail.itac.at with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Nbsb1-0001s0-L7; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:29:27 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:29:28 +0100 From: Bernhard Froehlich To: Warren Block In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <18ee50220990c7eb879ab5b357b43dbe@bluelife.at> X-Sender: decke@bluelife.at User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: 0.3 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "mail.itac.at", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:09:39 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: > The attached patch adds a --grabimmediate option to VBoxSDL. This lets > VBoxSDL start with the mouse and keyboard input already grabbed. > > Use cases: > > For console-only guests, the mouse pointer is useless and only goes away [...] Content analysis details: (0.3 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP 3.4 FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future. -1.6 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] VBoxSDL --grabimmediate X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:29:30 -0000 On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:09:39 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: > The attached patch adds a --grabimmediate option to VBoxSDL. This lets > VBoxSDL start with the mouse and keyboard input already grabbed. > > Use cases: > > For console-only guests, the mouse pointer is useless and only goes away > when the user clicks. > > Running full-screen guests, one would usually want the input grabbed > immediately anyway. (It could be argued that the --fullscreen option > should grab input immediately by default.) > > To use, copy the patch to /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose and > rebuild the port. > > Feedback welcome. Would you mind submitting the patch upstream? Please read the "How to submit your contributions" chapter in their wiki [1] on how to correctly do this or create a Bugreport in their bugracker with your patch. Thanks! [1] http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Contributor_information -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/