OpenGL Draw Over Everything else

[GortiZ]

In a clean installation of a Kubuntu 12.04 guest in a Windows 7 x64 host, when you start an opengl software it will draw over everything. Attached you'll find a png showing the glxgears drawing over konsole and kcalc (kcalc is the "in use" window as you can see from the blu glare around it), and a text file containing the output of glxinfo software. If you need any other information please ask. Regards, GortiZ

[GortiZ]

Destkop view

[GortiZ]

glxinfo software output

[micgat]

I have the same problem with Xubuntu 12.04 guest on a Mac OS X 10.8.2 host machine. Switching off 3D acceleration helps in my case, but causes other issues because OpenGL is required for some of the software I'm using.

[Kris Thielemans]

I see related problems with VBox 4.2.0. Host OS Windows7, Guest OS Ubuntu 11.10. I'm trying to use Mayavi2 from python with mlab, trying some of the examples on ​http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/mlab.html#simple-scripting-with-mlab.

In my case, for the simplest demo, mayavi opens a window, but it's empty. It's only when I resize it that I see the figure, but it's not in the window (it's at the bottom left corner). (I can't seem to take a screenshot of this). Here's what I type

$ ipython -pylab -wthread
Python 2.7.2+ (default, Jul 20 2012, 22:15:08) 
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 0.10.2 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help      -> Python's own help system.
object?   -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.

  Welcome to pylab, a matplotlib-based Python environment.
  For more information, type 'help(pylab)'.

In [1]: from mayavi import mlab
In [2]: from numpy import random
In [3]: 
In [4]: @mlab.show
   ...: def image():
   ...:        mlab.imshow(random.random((10, 10)))
   ...: 

In [5]: image()
OpenGL Warning: No pincher, please call crStateSetCurrentPointers() in your SPU

Note that after resizing/closing the window or restarting ipython, usually these problems do not appear.

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.