On Monday 06 Jun 2011 23:44:12 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I should have said:

app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-3.2.12-r1 in KDE4.6.  Stable x86.


> When in full screen, what do you have set in
> popup_menu -> View -> Virtual Screens

I tried both 1 & 2 but it keeps popping up on the second screen.

-- 
Regards,
Mick