After the new update, QEMU’s just… worse than it used to be. Why does it now try to grab my mouse? When I click on the QEMU window, it confines my mouse to the window borders. It also sometimes doesn’t let me move the window with super+drag, the window’s square now instead of matching the watch reso…

This is because the emulator now supports touch. Mouse is used to simulate touch events. We’ll take a look at these, but if you want to fix the bug and submit a PR, it might be faster since you already seem to have something in mind for how to improve it for your workflow.

Surely you don’t need to capture the mouse to receive touch inputs though, right? And the sigterm closing QEMU thing definitely seems like a bug

Also now I get this popup every time QEMU opens. Which wouldn’t be so bad except QEMU closes every time I quit from a --logs command [image]

good question - again we’ll take a look at it when we have a moment but it’s 100% open source sw so if you’d like to dive in right away and fix it, you might get it fixed even before we have a chance to take a look!

Hi Flynn, most of the issues seem to be linux specific (I cannot replicate them on macOS) sorry about that! I’ll try to replicate them on my Linux machine and try to fix that! re: qemu closing when you press ctrl+c when using install –logs: that already happened with the old emulator so this isnt n…

That definitely didn’t happen for me before :thinking: is it supposed to happen?

yes it is, and i need 20 characters so hello

Huh. Why is that the case? Seems odd that you’d want to close QEMU ever. It also is inconsistent. If the app fails to install, QEMU won’t close even though that’s a case where you’d close it anyway to reset it. The way I used to use it is I would keep the QEMU window open and resized larger on a sec…

[image] Flynn: That definitely didn’t happen for me before :thinking: is it supposed to happen? It happens here only if I start QEMU with the --logs parameter. And as far as I remember this was always the case? My workaround is to run e.g. pebble install --emulator flint to start QEMU (witho…

Huh. Well at any rate it’s not as important anymore since I need to kill/wipe QEMU to install the app anyway :person_shrugging: Maybe I was just special before since I never saw that behaviour until now

Qemu is now worse

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MrBlue May 6, 2026, 10:02pm 14

I also wanted to chime in to add that the VNC mode for the emulator, like in the vscode extension, no longer works it seems.

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