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iceWM does not show VirtualBox's minibar #707

Closed remyhorton closed 1 year ago

remyhorton commented 1 year ago

When using VirtualBox in fullscreen mode the minibar does not show, regardless of the settings that control its visibility. It does however flash up very briefly when switching a VM from from windowed to fullscreen mode. This seems to be an iceWM bug because it does appear if Xfce is used on the same system (see screenshot below).

This is on Slackware 15.0 with a tarball build of 3.3.1 (config.log attached)

vbox-guest-ctrlbar

gijsbers commented 1 year ago

IceWM is a layering window manager. It supports 16 different layers. You can see them in the output of icewm symbols and in the window menu. Fullscreen is layer number 14, while the mini-toolbar advertises itself with a window type of NORMAL, which by default ends up in layer 4. See the output of xprop. To force the mini-toolbar above the Fullscreen layer, add this line to your winoptions:

VirtualBoxVM.VirtualBoxVM.layer:   AboveAll

Then do icesh winoptions. Now when a new mini-toolbar is created, it should be positioned above the fullscreen window. Check this with icesh -a list getLayer. You could also do:

icesh -c VirtualBoxVM.VirtualBoxVM setLayer 15

Icesh doesn't yet know the names for Fullscreen and AboveAll.

If VirtualBox would have set the window type to TOOLTIP or DND then this problem wouldn't have occurred.

remyhorton commented 1 year ago

Yep that did the trick. :) Closing ticket..