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Description of problem:
virt-manager pops up a notification popup when it grabs the mouse pointer. virt-viewer when called from virt-install doesn't. They should be consistent and it should be easy to steal code from virt-viewer.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-viewer-0.2.1-1.el6.x86_64
How reproducible:
always.
Comment 2RHEL Program Management
2010-04-06 21:41:15 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
The popup notification bubble is a pretty annoying thing, not least because you can't click to hide it when your pointer is grabbed. With the key ungrab sequence already in the title bar is it also redundant, so I'm not adding this to virt-viewer too. Energy is better focused on ensuring there is never any need to grab the pointer in the first place.
If I were writing virt-manager again today, I wouldn't add the popup bubble in the first place, but the question of removing it is something to discus on upstream mailing lists to see if there are objections
I'm fine with just removing the popup bubble: the window title has directions to ungrab the mouse, so the popup doesn't add much except make the initial pointer grab very obvious.
Verified with Passed in virt-manager-0.8.6-1.el6
# uname -a
Linux dhcp-65-85.nay.redhat.com 2.6.32-99.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 10:46:00 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
kernel-2.6.32-99.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.129.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.8.7-1.el6.x86_64
The popup bubble is removed. And ungrabbing the mouse can refer to directions in the window title.
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closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
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