VirtualBox

Opened 16 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#1645 closed defect (obsolete)

libnotify notifications do not show up when VirtualBox is running fullscreen

Reported by: James Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 1.6.0
Keywords: fullscreen, full screen, notifications Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description (last modified by aeichner)

I have an Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) host system. I like to have a Windows VM running full-screen on a second desktop. When I do this, the standard notifications that appear next to system tray icons (created by libnotify) do not appear. If the VM is not in full screen, then the notifications appear as expected.

A command that can be run to test this behavior (requires the libnotify-bin package to be installed) is:

notify-send -t 2000 test testing

Change History (4)

comment:1 by P. Meiser, 15 years ago

I also ran into this issue with VirtualBox 2.1.4.

comment:3 by dimitris, 14 years ago

I'm still seeing this with 3.2.6, Ubuntu Lucid host with XP guest in seamless mode.

One possibile difference from the original report is that desktop notifications do show up when VB doesn't have focus, e.g. if I press the Host key followed by Alt-Tabbing to another (host) window.

comment:4 by aeichner, 8 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Resolution: obsolete
Status: newclosed

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.

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