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

[Karli Sjöberg]

On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 09:16 +0000, Pavel Gashev wrote:
> 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

Cool! I´ll test and report back!

/K

> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <users-bounces at ovirt.org> on behalf of Karli Sjöberg <karli.sjo
> berg 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 re
> dhat.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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