Hello Louis, The display hint setting is for restricting the maximum size of resolution a guest can set. X11 guests ignore this entirely as all resolutions except the very first one are requested by the user, and I assume that if the user asks for something then they know what they want.
Just testing a fix for remembering modes across shut-downs between old and new Additions - after thinking about this a bit, I concluded that although it would ideally only affect every user once, that still adds up to quite a number of times. Regards, Michael On 05.12.2014 10:19, Louis King Jr wrote: > 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] <mailto:[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]> > <mailto:[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]> > <mailto:michael.thayer@oracle.__com > <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 > <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 > <https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds> > > > > > -- > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. 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