VirtualBox

Opened 15 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#3862 closed defect (obsolete)

Switching off seamless mode makes VB window disappear — at Version 8

Reported by: dimitris Owned by:
Component: GUI/seamless Version: VirtualBox 2.2.2
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Windows Host type: Linux

Description (last modified by Frank Mehnert)

Host is Kubuntu 9.04, guest is XP SP3 with 2.2.2 guest additions.

Steps to reproduce:

  • Start guest; it was last not in seamless mode, so it starts in its own window.
  • Host-L to go to seamless mode.
  • Host-L to go back to its own window.
  • Guest window doesn't appear, and neither do any programs' windows that were displaying on the guest's desktop.
  • VB is still sort-of responding: If I "explicitly" switch to the VB window using the KDE taskbar, and then press Host-L, VB switches back to seamless mode.

Change History (12)

by dimitris, 15 years ago

Attachment: VBox.log added

log from a run that started in non-seamless mode and was switched back and forth a few times.

by dimitris, 15 years ago

Attachment: VBox.2.log added

Updated log, running the Jaunty version of VB

comment:1 by dimitris, 15 years ago

I originally reported this using the Intrepid build. I noticed there are Jaunty-specific builds available on the download server, so I installed that instead. The problem remains, with one apparent change:

When I switched from seamless to normal mode, I had a command window open on the guest's desktop. That was displayed now, but cropped smaller than its size and much smaller than the VB window size.

comment:2 by diafero, 15 years ago

I have exactly the same issue with the same system: Kubuntu 9.04 with KDE 4.2.2, no matter whether compositing is enabled or disabled, X.Org X Server 1.6.0.

When I disable seamless windows, the parts which were transparent in seamless mode stay transparent, just the windows size is fixed. I have to reboot the system (which is hard as I have to make sure the right parts of the screen are actually shown when disabling seamless mode) to fix the issue.

by diafero, 15 years ago

log file when reproducing the issue

in reply to:  2 comment:3 by diafero, 15 years ago

just the windows size is fixed.

I just noticed that even that is not done correctly: The menu bar at the top and the icons at the bottom do appear, but the window does *not* get a title bar after leaving seamless mode.

comment:4 by kees, 15 years ago

I have more or less the same problem. With a Windows XP guest (with the taskbar at the top) when I switch back out of seamless mode, all I can see is the outline of the taskbar in dark blue and the outline of the full VB windows as a very light transparent box, but no menubar, title bar, taskbar or window edges. With a Ubuntu client I cannot see anything but the transparent box. In both cases I have to use "VBManage vmcontrol <vm> poweroff" to shut the vm down.

This is on a Kunbuntu Jaunty 64 bit host.

comment:5 by dimitris, 15 years ago

This problem is still present with VB 2.2.4.

comment:6 by lispnik, 15 years ago

I can reproduce this problem on VirtualBox 2.2.4 and 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04 (log attached).

by lispnik, 15 years ago

comment:7 by Shirakawasuna, 14 years ago

I can confirm similar behavior in 3.0.8 on archlinux in both Windows XP and Windows 7 Guests. To ensure that the behavior is the same: switching to seamless mode works fine, switching back to windowed results in a loss of large portions of the window and no window border. The only way to recover is to switch back to seamless mode or to save the state and resume.

comment:8 by Frank Mehnert, 9 years ago

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