very newbie issue w/ the VirtualBox Manager - left panel gone

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marevacre
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very newbie issue w/ the VirtualBox Manager - left panel gone

Post by marevacre »

Hi there,
I have a very, very newbie question. The left panel of my VirtualBox Manager (ie the panel showing the machines) is disappeared! That is I can't choose any machine from the manager. How do I restore it???
Much appreciated

EDIT: forgot to add that I am on Ubuntu 20.04 and VirtualBox 6.1
scottgus1
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Re: very newbie issue w/ the VirtualBox Manager - left panel gone

Post by scottgus1 »

The panel has been slid closed by an accidental mouse move. Move your mouse to the left side of the window. Just before you get to the far left side, where the mouse pointer switches to the grab-the-side-of-the-window pointer, it should switch to a different grab-the-slide-bar-between-two-panes pointer, just a couple pixels off the left edge of the window. (It does this on my Windows host, I don't have a Linux host to test on.) Click and drag to the right. Eventually the guest list pane should snap open.
marevacre
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Re: very newbie issue w/ the VirtualBox Manager - left panel gone

Post by marevacre »

scottgus1 wrote:The panel has been slid closed by an accidental mouse move. Move your mouse to the left side of the window. Just before you get to the far left side, where the mouse pointer switches to the grab-the-side-of-the-window pointer, it should switch to a different grab-the-slide-bar-between-two-panes pointer, just a couple pixels off the left edge of the window. (It does this on my Windows host, I don't have a Linux host to test on.) Click and drag to the right. Eventually the guest list pane should snap open.
I feel very stupid!!! Yes thank you a lot!!!! I have been spending last hour looking at all possible settings, looking for a hidden one, searching in the manual etc etc
Well thanks a lot!!!
:D
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Re: very newbie issue w/ the VirtualBox Manager - left panel gone

Post by scottgus1 »

Great, glad you're up and running!
Don't feel stupid. Virtualbox 5.2 had a visible bar on the side showing the left side had been collapsed and where to grab. Taking that away in the new 'border-less' look is a mistake IMHO. GUI's should not hide functions behind nothing.
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Re: very newbie issue w/ the VirtualBox Manager - left panel gone

Post by zhongyang »

IMHO,3 years later I met this problem again.
On macOS it's more terrible, there's handle on the board-less design on macOS.
It's all gone and seems that there's no way to recover.
Booooooooooom!
Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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fth0
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Re: very newbie issue w/ the VirtualBox Manager - left panel gone

Post by fth0 »

zhongyang wrote:It's all gone and seems that there's no way to recover.
Of course there is. Close the VirtualBox Manager and execute the following command from within a terminal:

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VBoxManage setextradata global "GUI/SplitterSizes"
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