Re: VirtualBox seamless mode
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2009-04-10, Klaus Umbach treibholz-...@sozial-inkompetent.de wrote: Just use VirtualBox in standard-fullscreen-mode on a separate Workspace. That's the most acceptable pain. No, that's Ion-in-cygwin-X-on-windows, after changing Mod1+Tab to Mod1+Q in Ion. Integrates much better than a fully keyboard-grabbing VM... albeit not perfectly :(. What works best for me is to run VirtualBox's VRDP server, and use rdesktop from Linux to interact with your VM, instead of using VirtualBox's standard fullscreen mode. The biggest advantage of this (in addition to things being snappier) is that 'rdesktop -K' will not do any keyboard grabbing: -K Do not override window manager key bindings. By default rdesktop attempts to grab all keyboard input when it is in focus. [1] [1] rdesktop man page.
Re: VirtualBox seamless mode
On 2009-04-09, Vladimir Skuratovich skuratov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible to set up the VirtualBox 'seamless mode', where it is supposed to integrate with the window manager, so that the guest windows are managed by Ion? Does it create managed windows or just override-redirects? I'd expect the latter, which are likely to then get hidden under Ion's tiling. -- Be an early adopter! Beat the herd! Choose Windows today!
Re: VirtualBox seamless mode
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:59:01AM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: Is it possible to set up the VirtualBox 'seamless mode', where it is supposed to integrate with the window manager, so that the guest windows are managed by Ion? Does it create managed windows or just override-redirects? I'd expect the latter, which are likely to then get hidden under Ion's tiling. It seems that all guest window are drawn inside one X window even in 'seamless mode', so probably the latter. Maybe some other virtual machine is able to create a separate X window for each window inside the guest OS?
Re: VirtualBox seamless mode
On 10/04/09 20:07, Vladimir Skuratovich wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:59:01AM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: Is it possible to set up the VirtualBox 'seamless mode', where it is supposed to integrate with the window manager, so that the guest windows are managed by Ion? Does it create managed windows or just override-redirects? I'd expect the latter, which are likely to then get hidden under Ion's tiling. It seems that all guest window are drawn inside one X window even in 'seamless mode', so probably the latter. Maybe some other virtual machine is able to create a separate X window for each window inside the guest OS? Just use VirtualBox in standard-fullscreen-mode on a separate Workspace. That's the most acceptable pain. - Klaus -- BOFH excuse #262: Our POP server was kidnapped by a weasel.
Re: VirtualBox seamless mode
On 2009-04-10, Klaus Umbach treibholz-...@sozial-inkompetent.de wrote: Just use VirtualBox in standard-fullscreen-mode on a separate Workspace. That's the most acceptable pain. No, that's Ion-in-cygwin-X-on-windows, after changing Mod1+Tab to Mod1+Q in Ion. Integrates much better than a fully keyboard-grabbing VM... albeit not perfectly :(. -- In 1995, Linux was almost a bicycle; an alternative way of live to the Windows petrol beasts that had to be taken to the dealer for service. By 2008, Linux has bloated into a gas-guzzler, and the cycle paths have been replaced with polluted motorways.
