On 19/06/18 07:31, Lukas Winkler via arch-general wrote:

On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 at 00:43, David C. Rankin wrote:

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All,

This is a strange one, confirmed on two separate Archlinux Guests running in VirtualBox on Archlinux Hosts. I access the running VMs with rdesktop over the LAN. After update to Linux 4.17.2 & xorg-server 1.20.0-8, VirtualBox-5.2.12 starts the Archlinux guests fine, X starts fine in the guests (running fluxbox), and pressing the right-mouse brings up the fluxbox-menu fine, but there is no way to select an item with the left-mouse.

When the xterm is open, there is no way to grab the title-bar and move the xterm around, again, as if the left-mouse input isn't seen. An moving the cursor over the bottom of the window will not bring up the taskbar.

This effects Linux guest, but not windows guests. I can start Win7 in a VM and opening in remote-desktop works just fine. (all mouse buttons work fine and the cursor position tracks properly bringing up the auto-hidden taskbar on mouseover)

Can someone with a similar VirtualBox setup confirm this behavior? I suspect it would effect any Linux Guest that runs X and a desktop and is accessed with rdesktop. For all practical purposes this update prevent accessing Linux guest with rdesktop.

-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Hi David + List

Same behaviour for me. I resolved it by installing the synaptics input driver in the guest for now as I did not have time to debug.

BR I have the same behaviour on my Arch Linux guest, but for me both right- and left-click do not work. I have had to downgrade the kernel and the VirtualBox guest modules.

Regards, Gurnaik

On 06/21/2018 03:19 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:

On 06/19/2018 02:02 AM, Gurnaik V via arch-general wrote:

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I have the same behaviour on my Arch Linux guest, but for me both right- and left-click do not work. I have had to downgrade the kernel and the VirtualBox guest modules.

Well, I'm glad I'm not crazy.

ArchDevs, should I open a bug on this?

It seems the xorg update has linux guests within virtual box to not receive left (and for some right) mouse inputs. Prior to this update the Arch guest in virtualbox have been working fine for years.

Is there some additional, specific diagnostics I can provide that would help? I'm a bit lost as to what to look for. I can log the output of xev if you like and describe what didn't happen, but that seems a bit subjective. What would help?

Found open bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59091 If you are experiencing problems, you can add your observations and comments there. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.