unfortunately, seamless mode goese crazy with fluxbox

dantemason · Post by **dantemason** » 27. Nov 2007, 08:26

As you can see in the image.

I am using fluxbox 1.0, running on Debian lenny AMD64,
the guest OS is WinXP pro.

In seamless mode, it was a mess if I move any window.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » 29. Nov 2007, 19:55

I do also have similiar issues running seamless mode in fluxbox as you do, but not exacly...
when i move windows in the virtual machine all windows opend in fluxbox will start flickering, it looks like some refresh is being made.

broli2 · Post by **broli2** » 29. Nov 2007, 20:22

i use fluxbox 1.0 in a 32 bits fedora 7, and i have never seen that, and i ahve tested a few guest os to.
it looks like a vidcar issue maybe.

plb · Post by **plb** » 30. Nov 2007, 04:07

I get flickering windows as well when I move windows and open windows etc in seamless mode. Fluxbox here also....Debian Sid Kernel 2.6.22, virtualbox 1.5.2

plb · Post by **plb** » 30. Nov 2007, 21:26

no solutions? I've also tried 1.5.0...same thing. Will have to look into this some more when I get time

plb · Post by **plb** » 2. Dec 2007, 01:47

Well I tried openbox and don't get the problem...weird how it's only fluxbox hmmm

Pete · Post by **Pete** » 2. Dec 2007, 03:29

So then it's a fluxbox related issue?, maybe we should consider filing a bug report to the fluxbox devs?.
btw broli2 said that he didn't get the issue and said it could be a vidcar issue, i guess he mean video card.

So if we post our fluxbox version + video drivers it might help.

System: Gentoo Linux 2007.1 - AMD64
Fluxbox version: Fluxbox 1.0.0-gentoo
Video Drivers: Nvidia 100.14.19

plb · Post by **plb** » 2. Dec 2007, 03:32

Don't think it would be videocard related since I tried a few other wms including dwm and and openbox and had no such issues. Perhaps disabling certain compile time options will fix the issue? Not sure, I don't have time to fiddle with it to much really. BTW I am just using plain old NV driver in xorg...I have an old tnt2 card.

plb · Post by **plb** » 22. Jan 2008, 20:36

no ones yet to figure this one out?

Post by **JshWright** » 23. Jan 2008, 15:04

Well, before filing a Fluxbox bug, I'd check and see if the issue occurs on other *box window managers.

A Fluxbox environment isn't as "full-featured" as a full Gnome or KDE desktop.

plb · Post by **plb** » 23. Jan 2008, 15:09

Already did, and nope I get no issues on any other wm...metacity, openbox, dwm, blackbox, kde...just fluxbox.

Post by **JshWright** » 23. Jan 2008, 15:56

And that's what I get for not reading the whole thread before posting...

My apologies...

twells · Post by **twells** » 13. Feb 2008, 22:16

I am seeing these same problem when using XP Host, XP Guest.

logic · Post by **logic** » 8. Jul 2009, 18:18

We're up to VirtualBox 3.0.0 and I'm still encountering this issue. My VirtualBox also cannot render Full Screen properly as shown in the screenshots. I think that's what's causing my seamless mode to go out of wack.

Fullscreen Mode (with conky killed):

Fullscreen Mode (sometimes it gets a little further and ends up like this):

Seamless Mode (I'm guessing that because fullscreen mode is crazy, the problem overflows into seamless for this):

virtualbox.org

unfortunately, seamless mode goese crazy with fluxbox

unfortunately, seamless mode goese crazy with fluxbox

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