Re: [ovirt-users] Graphics are turned upside down when install QXL in Windows
The issue with Spice HTML5 is as old as native client for MacOS(X). Both are not
maintained well.
The fix for Spice HTML5 is the following
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2013-March/012798.html
-----Original Message-----
From: <users-bounces(a)ovirt.org> on behalf of Karli Sjöberg
<karli.sjoberg(a)slu.se>
Reply-To: Karli Sjöberg <karli.sjoberg(a)slu.se>
Date: Tuesday, 7 March 2017 at 11:34
To: "users(a)ovirt.org" <users(a)ovirt.org>, "ykaul(a)redhat.com"
<ykaul(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Graphics are turned upside down when install QXL in Windows
On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 08:30 +0000, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
Known issue with the Spice HTML5. We should drop it, it's not
being
very well maintained.
Y.
That´s a real shame, IMO it´s awesome to not have a native client that
you have to maintain for every platform. I think it works great, and
being platform independent is super!
/K
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:43 AM Karli Sjöberg <karli.sjoberg(a)slu.se>
wrote:
> Heya!
>
> Just thought that I´d report something hilarious:)
>
> After installing the QXL driver in Windows 7 and 2008R2, in the
> SPICE
> HTML5 browser client, all of the graphics are turned 180 degrees.
> It´s
> not that the entire screen is flipped either, but all of the
> individual
> elements are. E.g. the trashcan that should be in the top right
> corner
> is now located in the bottom right, flipped upside down with the
> text
> "above" it and text also flipped. Opening an explorer windows still
> has
> the location and search bar at the top, with location bar first and
> search bar to the right, as it should be, but with the graphics
> turned
> upside down, plus that the text is still printed from left to
> right,
> but upside down. And the "favorites" pane is still located to the
> left
> but listed from bottom the top, Windows has never looked this
> funny:)
>
> A picture says a thousand words. Behold!
> http://imgur.com/a/32P12
>
> The native client displays as it should.
>
> Just letting you know.
>
> /K
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