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<font face="Verdana">Fedora 16 does the same thing. I just used
wheezy as a reference, sorry.<br>
But I think I have the common part between them. Gnome3.<br>
KDE does not do this in my tests.<br>
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By the way, I never use the distros GAs. I remove them and
install my own, or the ones from VBox.<br>
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On 06/06/2012 08:40 AM, Klaus Espenlaub wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Perry,
On 04.06.2012 22:58, Perry Halbert wrote:
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Start a debian wheezy guest and wait for the screen saver to kick in
(blank screen) You can set it to 1 minute to test with.
Once it does the entire GUI disappears from the host. Still shows
running in the Main Manager and show running says it is active. Only way
to get it back is to send acpi shutdown which doesn't really work by the
way to shut down the guest.
DT manager in wheezy is gnome3 and in the GUI there is no way to
actually turn off the screen saver (which I find stupid).
I worked around this by creating a script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d
with the following "xset -dpms s off" sans quotes. Now the screen blank
does not kill the GUI.
Figured you would want to know :)
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Confirmed. You forgot to mention that wheezy is in alpha1 stage...
wheezy comes with guest additions version 4.1.14, which supports
disabling screens. Apparently all screens can be disabled, and this
means the GUI becomes invisible. With the evil side effect of losing the
normal source of input, too.
VBoxManage controlvm <VMNAME> keyboardputscancode 01 81
brings it back (by signalling an "Esc" key press and release).
Of course this needs a better solution. At least one window needs to
remain, to retain the input source. A bit of GUI hacking is necessary to
achieve this.
VBoxManage controlvm <VMNAME> acpipowerbutton
also brings it back as a side effect, but only because the guest OS
doesn't actually shut down because the ACPI config doesn't seem to be
usable. Something is VERY wrong with acpi handling on wheezy (/proc/acpi
is essentially empty), and I couldn't find a way to configure anything.
To me this looks like something the Debian folks need to fix.
Klaus
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