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FS#38965 - [qemu] enable GTK UI

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Thursday, 20 February 2014, 04:35 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 01 August 2016, 16:22 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 11
Private No

Details

This is now considered stable upstream, and is in fact the default user interface. Enabling it just requires adding `vte` and `gtk2` as dependencies and passing `--enable-gtk` instead of `--disable-gtk`.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Monday, 01 August 2016, 16:22 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Saturday, 19 April 2014, 06:28 GMT
It is not possible it breaks things like arrow keys and leads to coredumps.
Provide me flags which don't cause this i'll enable it.

Thanks.
Comment by Stefan Haller (haliner) - Monday, 02 March 2015, 16:37 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
I tested the latest version with --enable-gtk and everything is working fine. Upstream also seem to consider the gtk fronted as default user interface.

In the current version (2.2.0-1) the SDL interface is not working at all. After pressing the Ctrl-Alt-U (shortcut for rescaling) qemu hangs and segfaults. This is obviously a different bug, but enabling the gtk frontend is a workaround for this regression.
Comment by Stefan Haller (haliner) - Monday, 03 August 2015, 22:02 GMT
Are there any open bugs which block this task? I’m using the Gtk GUI for some time now and I did not trigger any coredumps or other bugs.
Comment by Maik Broemme (mbroemme) - Wednesday, 18 November 2015, 17:40 GMT
Also GTK UI and SDL2 are currently the only ways to use virtio-gpu with QEMU.
Comment by David Manouchehri (Manouchehri) - Sunday, 06 December 2015, 03:06 GMT
Adding --enable-gtk is definitely a good idea. It's stable now, I don't see any reason to disable it now.

QEMU takes forever to build, so it's not something that's convenient for us to rebuild.
Comment by Samantha McVey (samcv) - Friday, 10 June 2016, 22:46 GMT
I see --enable-gtk in the current PKGBUILD for qemu, is this ticket still valid? Thanks.
Comment by Peter Wu (Lekensteyn) - Monday, 01 August 2016, 16:05 GMT
This is fixed in qemu 2.6.0-1, but the "gtk3" depends is missing.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 01 August 2016, 16:21 GMT
It's already a dep of vte3, so it's covered.

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