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On Monday 06 Jun 2011 23:44:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 00:08 on Tuesday 07 June 2011, Mick did |
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> opine |
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> thusly: |
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> > I'm not sure I understand why this happens: |
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> > Left monitor is 1280x1024 native resolution, right monitor is larger. |
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> > The virtualbox control panel opens on the left monitor and stays there. |
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> > If I launch a guest (Windows7) it pops up in the left monitor too. |
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> > That's how it should be, but the vbox window now has scroll bars because |
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> > the monitor is the same size like the guest desktop (1280x1024). |
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> > The first time I selected Full Screen it maximised and covered the whole |
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> > of the left monitor. That's also how I thought it should be. |
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> > However, the moment I pressed right Ctrl+F to come out of Full Screen |
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> > mode and then back into it, instead of re-expanding to cover the whole |
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> > of the left monitor, it decided to pop up into the right monitor! |
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> > I have not been able to convince it to stay in the left monitor when |
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> > maximised ever since. No idea why it only behaved correctly once and now |
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> > will not obey my clearly articulated intent, despite how much I have been |
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> > swearing at it! |
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> > |
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> > Is there a fix? |
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> virtualbox-4.0.8 and e17? |
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Sorry, I should have said: |
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app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-3.2.12-r1 in KDE4.6. Stable x86. |
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> When in full screen, what do you have set in |
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> popup_menu -> View -> Virtual Screens |
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I tried both 1 & 2 but it keeps popping up on the second screen. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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