<div dir="ltr"><div>You're welcome Michael. Glad to help.<br><br></div>I have the original error back with the 97176 GAs. At least in Ubuntu 15.04.<br><br>VBoxClient Internal error retrieving the number of saved screen modes.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Michael Thayer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.thayer@oracle.com" target="_blank">michael.thayer@oracle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Now I get what you mean. Yes, I re-did a lot of that code, and unfortunately I was not able to keep the resizing at the log-in screen in a clean way. (The old code was far from clean, witness many of the bugs which are now fixed.) In the mean-time I have thought of a way to do it, which will be a bit more effort but I hope to start on very soon.<br>
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All currently known bugs should be fixed with r97176, which should hit the test build page<1> in an hour or so. Note that only the Additions build will contain all fixes, as the other builds often contain Additions which are one or two revisions older.<br>
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Thanks for your testing.<span class=""><br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Michael<br>
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On 05.12.2014 11:21, Louis King Jr wrote:<br>
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The main difference I noticed as I was trying to explain previously with<br>
the latest test and all other previous GAs is, if I have a guest that I<br>
have to log into, previously the log in screen would open to the same<br>
size as the guest was when it was shutdown. Now it opens at a smaller<br>
size and once logged in it resizes to the previous size.<br>
<br>
I hope I'm making sense. :)<br>
<br>
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Michael Thayer<br></span><div><div class="h5">
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Hello Louis,<br>
<br>
The display hint setting is for restricting the maximum size of<br>
resolution a guest can set. X11 guests ignore this entirely as all<br>
resolutions except the very first one are requested by the user, and<br>
I assume that if the user asks for something then they know what<br>
they want.<br>
<br>
Just testing a fix for remembering modes across shut-downs between<br>
old and new Additions - after thinking about this a bit, I concluded<br>
that although it would ideally only affect every user once, that<br>
still adds up to quite a number of times.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Michael<br>
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On 05.12.2014 10:19, Louis King Jr wrote:<br>
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Michael,<br>
<br>
If I understand you correctly, yes remembering modes across<br>
shutdowns<br>
seems to work.<br>
<br>
I may misunderstand the purpose of the Display>Hint setting in the<br>
VirtualBox preferences. Does that only work when you are first<br>
creating<br>
a guest? I ask because changing the resolution makes no<br>
difference after<br>
the guest is created.<br>
<br>
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Hello Louis,<br>
<br>
Hint handling was actually one of the things which should<br>
be fixed.<br>
Remembering saved modes is not compatible between old and new<br>
Additions (I could have fixed that, but normally it will<br>
only be<br>
needed once, when you upgrade, so I preferred to keep the code<br>
simple and hopefully reliable), as the new mechanism works<br>
for all<br>
guest screens and not just the first one, and saves more<br>
information. Expect that to change again once in the near<br>
future<br>
though I'm afraid.<br>
<br>
Does remembering modes work when you shut down and start up<br>
again<br>
with new Additions?<br>
<br>
Thanks and regards,<br>
<br>
Michael<br>
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On 04.12.2014 21:55, Louis King Jr wrote:<br>
<br>
Apparently the "Hint" preference was fixed because now<br>
if I set the<br>
Display Hint in VirtualBox to 1920x1080 it actually<br>
opens to<br>
that size.<br>
Hint never worked before.<br>
<br>
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Michael.<br>
<br>
The problem I had yesterday is fixed. I didn't try to<br>
recreate the<br>
new one. I haven't noticed any thing different<br>
except, I<br>
actually<br>
installed the test build for OSX instead of just<br>
the GAs.<br>
Something<br>
that has changed is, the guests no longer remember<br>
what<br>
size they<br>
were when shutdown. Normally I have all guests set to<br>
1920x1080 and<br>
when I start them they opened to that size. Now<br>
they don 't.<br>
<br>
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Second try<1>, hopefully with the first regression<br>
fixed. I have<br>
already found one new one myself: I started a<br>
terminal,<br>
switched to<br>
seamless mode, switched to a virtual terminal<br>
and back and<br>
cancelled the<br>
switch back to seamless. Result: the second guest<br>
screen was<br>
set to a<br>
0x0 resolution (checked with xrandr) and<br>
blacked out.<br>
<br>
All additional testing is welcome, I will fix<br>
my regression<br>
tomorrow and<br>
any others (if there are any, which is quite<br>
likely) as<br>
fast as<br>
I can as<br>
they are reported!<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
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On 03.12.2014 22:43, Michael Thayer wrote:<br>
> A number of changes and fixes were made to<br>
the graphics<br>
components of<br>
> the Linux and Solaris Guest Additions recently,<br>
particularly<br>
related to<br>
> disappearing guest screens and switches to<br>
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uses<br>
these guests<br>
to make<br>
> sure that I haven't introduced any<br>
regressions with the<br>
fixes. If you<br>
> would like to help please download a Guest<br>
Additions<br>
test<br>
build<1> (the<br>
> changes may not all be in the other builds<br>
yet),<br>
install it,<br>
use it and<br>
> let me know if any new problems have<br>
appeared. I<br>
hope they<br>
will not,<br>
> but I would rather know about it.<br>
><br>
> Thanks!<br>
><br>
> Michael<br>
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