Michael, If I understand you correctly, yes remembering modes across shutdowns seems to work.
I may misunderstand the purpose of the Display>Hint setting in the VirtualBox preferences. Does that only work when you are first creating a guest? I ask because changing the resolution makes no difference after the guest is created. On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Michael Thayer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Louis, > > Hint handling was actually one of the things which should be fixed. > Remembering saved modes is not compatible between old and new Additions (I > could have fixed that, but normally it will only be needed once, when you > upgrade, so I preferred to keep the code simple and hopefully reliable), as > the new mechanism works for all guest screens and not just the first one, > and saves more information. Expect that to change again once in the near > future though I'm afraid. > > Does remembering modes work when you shut down and start up again with new > Additions? > > Thanks and regards, > > Michael > > On 04.12.2014 21:55, Louis King Jr wrote: > >> Apparently the "Hint" preference was fixed because now if I set the >> Display Hint in VirtualBox to 1920x1080 it actually opens to that size. >> Hint never worked before. >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Louis King Jr <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Michael. >> >> The problem I had yesterday is fixed. I didn't try to recreate the >> new one. I haven't noticed any thing different except, I actually >> installed the test build for OSX instead of just the GAs. Something >> that has changed is, the guests no longer remember what size they >> were when shutdown. Normally I have all guests set to 1920x1080 and >> when I start them they opened to that size. Now they don 't. >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Michael Thayer >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Second try<1>, hopefully with the first regression fixed. I have >> already found one new one myself: I started a terminal, switched >> to >> seamless mode, switched to a virtual terminal and back and >> cancelled the >> switch back to seamless. Result: the second guest screen was >> set to a >> 0x0 resolution (checked with xrandr) and blacked out. >> >> All additional testing is welcome, I will fix my regression >> tomorrow and >> any others (if there are any, which is quite likely) as fast as >> I can as >> they are reported! >> >> Thanks! >> >> Regards, >> >> Michael >> >> <1> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds >> >> On 03.12.2014 22:43, Michael Thayer wrote: >> > A number of changes and fixes were made to the graphics >> components of >> > the Linux and Solaris Guest Additions recently, particularly >> related to >> > disappearing guest screens and switches to virtual >> terminals. I would >> > really appreciate any testing by anyone who uses these guests >> to make >> > sure that I haven't introduced any regressions with the >> fixes. If you >> > would like to help please download a Guest Additions test >> build<1> (the >> > changes may not all be in the other builds yet), install it, >> use it and >> > let me know if any new problems have appeared. I hope they >> will not, >> > but I would rather know about it. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > Michael >> > >> > <1> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds >> > >> >> >> -- >> ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer >> Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering >> 71384 Weinstadt, Germany >> mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München >> Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 >> Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz >> >> Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. >> Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande >> Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 >> Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-dev mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >> >> >> >> > > -- > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer > Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering > 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] > > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher >
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