Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#15929 new defect
Restored VM stays "darkened" if switching workspaces while restoring
| Reported by: | giacecco | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 5.0.26 |
| Keywords: | workspace, composite, | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
The following applies to Fedora 24. The latest VirtualBox version distributed from packages with it is 5.0.26.
To reproduce:
1) have more workspaces active in Gnome, e.g. A and B 2) start restoring a suspended Windows 10 VM in workspace A; the Windows desktop is showed darkened, to represent that you can't use it yet 3) switch to workspace B before restore is completed 4) wait some time for restoring to complete 5) switch back to workspace A
... and the Windows desktop will still be darkened, despite being active.
If, instead, you don't switch workspace for the duration of the restore, the darkening is removed at completion.
Note that if - from another workspace - I "look" at the VirtualBox window using a video capture device (e.g. obs-studio), the window is correctly not darkened.
The issue could be VirtualBox's or of the way VirtualBox interacts with Gnome's window manager / composite manager (mutter?). I found a similar issue from the past at https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=68896&p=372386#p328269 , with compton, another Linux composite manager.
Thanks.
Just to confirm that this is still happening with version 5.1.8 r111374 installed from the Fedora 24 packages.