[ovirt-users] Graphics are turned upside down when install QXL in Windows

[Pavel Gashev]

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 at ovirt.org> on behalf of Karli Sjöberg <karli.sjoberg at slu.se>
Reply-To: Karli Sjöberg <karli.sjoberg at slu.se>
Date: Tuesday, 7 March 2017 at 11:34
To: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>, "ykaul at redhat.com" <ykaul at 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 at 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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