On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 23:45:49 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed:
Listmates,
Here is one for the experts. I installed virtual box on my Arch laptop, and upon starting my XP guest machine, I discover that the VB window is almost completely transparent?? This is really strange and I can't explain what is happening, so a picture (screenshot) is worth a 1000 words:
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/vb-transparent2.j pg
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As you can see, the Virtualbox window background is almost 100% transparent as well as some parts of the applications running in it. This can make it quite challenging to get things done. I am using the radeonhd driver. I tried it with compiz running and then again with kwin. It made no difference.
Other than virtualbox being transparent, everything else was OK. Any ideas on this one??
cc: radeonhd list
Listmates I know what was causing the weird behavior of virtualbox: kde control center -> window behavior -> translucency But that doesn't explain why it was happening. Oh well, I can live without it while running VB. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com