Opened 9 years ago
#15499 new defect
seamless mode works only on laptop screen
| Reported by: | dovholuk | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | GUI/seamless | Version: | VirtualBox 5.0.20 |
| Keywords: | seamless | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I have found that using seamless mode in Fedora and Ubuntu will result in the screen going seamless on the laptop's display only. I have three screens - the laptop screen and two external monitors (via a docking station) in that order:
laptop screen <--> lcd panel 1 <--> lcd panel 2
I have set my "middle" monitor (lcd panel 1) to be the main window however no matter what I do I've not found a way to go seamless and have the seamless display on the monitor of my choosing.
An interesting note is that the desktop manager "cinnamon" - DOES work properly. I can move the non-seamless window to whichever screen I choose, use HOST+l to go seamless and it'll be seamless on the monitor that the non-maximized guest OS was on. (this does have some interesting quirks too but it works > 90% of the time pefectly)
It's been a bug for as long as I've used virtualbox (a long time) and I've seen the bug all through the later 4.x and now in the 5.x product.
VBox.log