Re: [gentoo-user] Vbox won't show up on left monitor at full screen

[Alan McKinnon]

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.

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