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
