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From: "A. Xander" <xander@web-refinery.com>
To: 50496@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50496: Graphical installer and QEMU
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 03:00:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17bcd38b5e8.ca91444a800472.8365310326060385714@web-refinery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 

Hi!

Switching from the graphical installer to a different virtual terminal is awkward in QEMU because the host system intercepts <ctrl-alt-F1 ... ctrl-alt-F12>. So QEMU isn't aware it needs to switch to another TTY.

Usually this is quite easy to work around by using <ctrl-arrow left/right> to switch from one TTY to another, however this doesn't work in TTY1 with the graphical installer. So I ended up having to work around that by entering QEMU's command line <alt-ctrl-2> and writing: "sendkey ctrl-alt-f3" and returning to the VM via <alt-ctrl-f1>.

My proposed solution would be to ensure this is documented and that the graphical installer itself ignores/passed through <ctrl-arrow right>.

Cheers,

- Xander. 





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