Re: VirtualBox does not run on Wayland

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On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 4:51 AM Frédéric <ufospoke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It took me a while to understand that Wayland was the source of my
> problem so I share my experience so that others can be quicker to
> solve this issue.
>
> I moved to F40 and Plasma came only with Wayland. Then, everything
> seemed OK apart that my Windows VM running in VirtualBox did not
> capture the mouse (quite annoying!). I run VirtualBox 7.0.18-1.fc40
> from rpmfusion-free-updates.
>
> I tried all options for the mouse (PS/2 mouse, USB tablet, multi-touch
> USB tablet and USB MT TouchScreen and TouchPad) but nothing worked.
> The VirtualBox menu above the VM was also not accessible.
>
> After one week of research, I found this post:
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1512787/ubuntu-22-04-2-virtualbox-7-0-18-captured-mouse-is-not-contained-when-integrat
>
> and installed plasma-workspace-x11. I now run X11 Plasma and
> VirtualBox works fine.

Yeah, Wayland is not quite ready for prime time. It is still missing
features. I do my best to avoid it.

(This is one of the most important features (for me). X11 has it,
Wayland does not: <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415364>).

Jeff
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