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* [gentoo-user] Vbox won't show up on left monitor at full screen
@ 2011-06-06 22:08 Mick
  2011-06-06 22:44 ` Alan McKinnon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mick @ 2011-06-06 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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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?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Vbox won't show up on left monitor at full screen
  2011-06-06 22:08 [gentoo-user] Vbox won't show up on left monitor at full screen Mick
@ 2011-06-06 22:44 ` Alan McKinnon
  2011-06-07  5:20   ` Mick
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Alan McKinnon @ 2011-06-06 22:44 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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



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* Re: [gentoo-user] Vbox won't show up on left monitor at full screen
  2011-06-06 22:44 ` Alan McKinnon
@ 2011-06-07  5:20   ` Mick
  2011-06-07  7:13     ` Alan McKinnon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mick @ 2011-06-07  5:20 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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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

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Vbox won't show up on left monitor at full screen
  2011-06-07  5:20   ` Mick
@ 2011-06-07  7:13     ` Alan McKinnon
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Alan McKinnon @ 2011-06-07  7:13 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Apparently, though unproven, at 07:20 on Tuesday 07 June 2011, Mick did opine 
thusly:

> 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.

Ah, a stable user. IIRC a lot of things changed with 4.0 (which I use) so I 
doubt I can be of much help.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



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