QEMU and transparency problems when using Xgl
July 5th, 2006
When running QEMU 0.8.1 under Novell’s Xgl Xserver, the QEMU window black background turns transparent, which makes extremely difficult to read anything on it.
Searching on the Internet, I found a workaround which consists on launching QEMU with the XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS variable set to 1. For example:
XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 qemu -hda ...
I hope this will be fixed in a later release of either QEMU or Novell’s Xgl Xserver.
January 9th, 2012 at 12:38 PM
Thanks for your help. I will keep you posted on how everything goes!