On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 at 00:43, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > The left-mouse click seems to be taken as an escape closing the menu without > actually selecting anything. It is as if the left-mouse (and cursor position > in general) isn't seen at all (there is no highlight in the menu when the > mouse moves over an item) > > Thankfully, the fluxbox designers made the menu respond to keyboard inputs, > so after bringing the fluxbox-menu up, I can up-arrow/down-arrow to an xterm > entry and open an xterm by pressing return. > > 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. > > I start my virtual machines from a simple bash script using: > > exec VBoxManage startvm arch_1_64 --type headless > > (I doubt that makes a difference, but for completeness) > > -- > 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
