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Apparently, though unproven, at 00:08 on Tuesday 07 June 2011, Mick did 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. If |
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> I launch a guest (Windows7) it pops up in the left monitor too. That's |
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> how it should be, but the vbox window now has scroll bars because the |
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> 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 of |
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> 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 mode |
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> and then back into it, instead of re-expanding to cover the whole of the |
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> 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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> Is there a fix? |
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virtualbox-4.0.8 and e17? |
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I have found that e17 can do interesting things with multi-monitor, probably |
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due to raster's fascination with making anything that can be configured, |
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configurable. Not everything is compatible with everything and it sounds like |
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your wm may be refusing to open the window full screen on top of something |
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else while unused screen space is available elsewhere. |
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Do you get the same effect with another DE? |
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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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? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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