Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#18565 new defect
Windows 8.1 host, Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon guest, seamless mode: no menu bar, no host key
| Reported by: | JN | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 6.0.6 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Windows |
Description
On the lastest release of Virtual Box (6.0.6), and the one before that, I see the VirtualBox menu bar when booting Mint on my Windows 8.1 machine but, once Mint Cinnamon has finished booting, the menu bar disappears, seemingly never to return. Nor do the host keys (e.g. <host>+a) do anything. Thus, since I have the VM set to run in seamless mode, the only way to move outside the VM is to shut it down.
The version of Mint Cinnamon that I am booting is fairy vanilla: I have not customised it much or installed much software on it. It is running a 4.15 Linux kernel.
I do not seem to have the latest Guest Additions installed. I did, via Windows, download them and run them, but then my guest tells me they are not installed - and, it's the case that, because of the aforementioned problems, I cannot install them from within the guest.
Change History (3)
comment:3 by , 5 years ago
- It's usually better and faster, if issues get first addressed in the VirtualBox forums, a lot more eyes there. More than 95% of the issues are resolved in the forums, which keeps the developers focusing on the bug fixes and enhancements, and there is no need for another ticket to keep track of. For example, yours is most probably not a bug and someone from the developers has to deal with it and close it as "Invalid".
Plus a discussion and analysis on the bug tracker is going to help me, you, and potentially a future drive-by user or two. Not so in the forums, many more tend to benefit...
Open a new thread in the Linux Guests section of the forums. Please be sure to mention that you came from the bug tracker and include the ticket number.
- You were supposed to follow these steps when you filed the bug, and provide a VBox.log:
Attach a (full) log file ("Machine" menu/"Show Log" in the main VirtualBox Manager window) straight away to save time for you and for us. The log file contains a lot of useful information about both the host and the guest systems as well as information about what happened during a particular machine run. Please do not cut and paste it.
Strangely, after updating Mint, and before rebooting, the menu bar reappeared. And I was able to install the Guest Additions from within the VM, though I had to manually unmount the existing Additions first. However, the host key seems to continue nonfunctional (and I have checked on my system to see which key it is meant to be).