From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QTiYw-0000YI-Ic for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:46:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4FFA1C034; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CA61C034 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so4424769wyi.40 for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:44:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=LVoDI9MvTblj8/hBicdT0NUaSNUmroeJJKg23CC7AyA=; b=S9lkxWv9S4QWthgvFho0K3ytl7J/xjFd3CAaU4IIHne9Mp6KyRUq72NAw/HVS9CHa0 Ck7MTHP5fw6CIUpuIGDpdbGXZmdXsozji6D1E3MKvmmO3lHnhn1ikBvlbsuyjZmsoXYx PjqMOjceg4T121OaBz/ARUPzSnK/25dz3sZDY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=dI66ZWEKsZ0ZUpy3QddPu2tyuZx8/ZKBu+MNV4oCfhv7oNPVwefnyp3JpCeYco/YrX WOpwiHqRwj4RSkarEW6d4lhZ6/6/zg7HTrGTrXNwz166enEP/4P6Y4xJNWtlDZOU7MDN +esKcR3k7moh8H4BgWK9MriKWYpZem28rj9lg= Received: by 10.227.170.74 with SMTP id c10mr5520975wbz.104.1307400286615; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-183-215.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.183.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d19sm3160522wbh.59.2011.06.06.15.44.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:44:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Vbox won't show up on left monitor at full screen Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 00:44:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201106062308.52214.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201106062308.52214.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106070044.12712.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d5a322e7b1a8d5f8c258b40e48eebfde Apparently, though unproven, at 00:08 on Tuesday 07 June 2011, Mick did opine thusly: > I'm not sure I understand why this happens: > > Left monitor is 1280x1024 native resolution, right monitor is larger. > > The virtualbox control panel opens on the left monitor and stays there. If > I launch a guest (Windows7) it pops up in the left monitor too. That's > how it should be, but the vbox window now has scroll bars because the > monitor is the same size like the guest desktop (1280x1024). > > The first time I selected Full Screen it maximised and covered the whole of > the left monitor. That's also how I thought it should be. > > However, the moment I pressed right Ctrl+F to come out of Full Screen mode > and then back into it, instead of re-expanding to cover the whole of the > left monitor, it decided to pop up into the right monitor! > > I have not been able to convince it to stay in the left monitor when > maximised ever since. No idea why it only behaved correctly once and now > will not obey my clearly articulated intent, despite how much I have been > swearing at it! > > Is there a fix? virtualbox-4.0.8 and e17? I have found that e17 can do interesting things with multi-monitor, probably due to raster's fascination with making anything that can be configured, configurable. Not everything is compatible with everything and it sounds like your wm may be refusing to open the window full screen on top of something else while unused screen space is available elsewhere. Do you get the same effect with another DE? When in full screen, what do you have set in popup_menu -> View -> Virtual Screens ? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com