menus sometimes cropped

[Pierre Fortin]

Randomly, VB Menus will display only part of the menu. Easiest way to reproduce is to click on the menu bar and slide the mouse across the menu items.

In the attached screenshots, I managed to capture a rare occurrence -- the View menu displayed two pieces. Have not been able to reproduce this particular oddity.

This started at the beginning of the VB4.2 versions IIRC.

[Pierre Fortin]

screnshots of the bug

[Pierre Fortin]

Forgot to add: when the mouse is moved down over the missing menu items, each gets drawn as the mouse reaches it.

[Dsen]

Could you please provide us with an exact linux/desktop environment distribution/version name of your host?
And it would be nice to know if at least one of following features is enabled for Virtual Machine: "2D Video Acceleration" and/or "3D Acceleration".
Thx in advance.

[Pierre Fortin]

Mageia 2 on Dell Studio 1747 8GB, 2*500GB HD, i7 CPU. Neither accel is set.

[Pierre Fortin]

Bug still exists in 4.2.8

[Pierre Fortin]

Bug still exists in 4.2.10

[Pierre Fortin]

Bug still exists in 4.2.12

[Pierre Fortin]

Bug still exists in 4.2.14

[Pierre Fortin]

Bug still exists in 4.2.16 -- subjectively, it may be a tad less aggravating. Not certain.

[Pierre Fortin]

Since the release of 4.2.18, haven't been able to install Extensions which always went in like a charm before; so haven't had time to check for this bug.

[Frank Mehnert]

Any chance to test VBox 4.3 Beta 3?

[Pierre Fortin]

Where do I find it? Or do I have to build it?

[Pierre Fortin]

Found VirtualBox-4.3.0_RC1-89687-Linux_amd64.run and it has this same bug. The easiest way to see the bug is to click on one of Machine/View/Devices/Help menus, then slide the mouse back and forth across those menus. The menus will flash as the mouse traverses each one and you should see the partial displays as originally reported. HTH

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.