Re: [Sheflug] re: b0rked mail stuff (and vmWare :)

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On 27 Mar 2001 19:16:04 +0100, Craig Andrews wrote:
> Um, hands up and own up time. I don't use Outlook to read mail, I use IE and a
> web based account. I only use outlook to send, so I can use my own email
> address. All to do with out back-to-front firewall at work. I can send mail,
> but not receive. Anyone can have a look in though.

Excellent :-) What's your ip address again?

(/me digs through mail headers :)

> I used an ATI RageIIc, with the accelerated MACH64 driver. I also ran it full
> screen. Windowed mode was DIRE. Not too bad on my accelerated TNT2 machine at
> home, though.

Yeah, windowed mode is kind of sucky, but not too bad. Full screen is
better, although it letterboxes on mine - I have W2K in 1024x768,
whereas the native resolution is 1280x1024 at least. It used to mode
switch; now it just letterboxes. Dunno why. I have a feeling it's my X
setup though, cos it started when I went from X3 -> X4. Might have to
play tomorrow.

> > to help I shouldn't think (question of the day: why can't I run
VMware
> > full-screen on one X server, and switch between full-screen modes
with
> > ctrl-alt-f*? Has anyone got this going? I would imagine it would be
an
> > obviously vmware utility to write...)
> 
> I thought you could? Just never did. What does it do now? (I would try
it, but
> my 30 day trial ran out, and I don't feel like fetching another one.)

NAFAIK. It seems to put the server into some raw keyboard mode or
something, so the key strokes don't get through. I have to ctrl-alt-esc
to 'ungrab' the keyboard, but of course this sends the full-screen back
to windowed mode. I imagine it grabs the keyboard to send all keystrokes
to the host, but I wish it was configurable - if anyone knows any
different, shout!! I have searched about, and no solution thus far. I
can't personally think of a solution (writing my own software or not)
that would be able to achieve this functionality without breaking
X/vmWare, since I imagine vmWare would need to be told that it no longer
had the keyboard. Perhaps this is time to look at Flex86 again?

Cheers,

Alex.
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