GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 785370
Mouse cursor coordinates offset at certain guest resolutions
Last modified: 2018-01-11 10:57:16 UTC
Testing with pureos.net as a guest OS that runs GNOME Shell, if I have resolution set to 1024x768, no problems. But as soon as I set it to 1440x900, I have a nearly unusable system because the mouse cursor is offset, so my clicks don't register at the right places, and it becomes nearly impossible to interact with headerbar buttons or any widget requiring precision in GNOME Shell/apps.
Created attachment 356325 [details] screencast First showing the correct behavior, then showing the buggy behavior.
Hi, please install and run spice-vdagent
That's interesting, is this strictly required? I presume it's roughly the equivalent of VirtualBox's "Guest Additions", is it? If so... GNOME Boxes (as the host) should warn me (with an infobar in the UI) that it's running a Linux desktop OS that doesn't have the proper guest additions installed, and that the performance and screen resolution+input will therefore not work correctly until that's corrected by the user.
I agree. We should discuss UI for this feature. I'm cc'ing Jakub.
Jean-François, yes, it is like guest additions. Can you please check if the spice agent is running? btw some info is in the box properties "SPICE guest tools are not installed. These tools improve...."
Summary line is not for asking questions and suggesting alternative summary lines in brackets. :) It's supposed to be a short summary of the issue.
I forgot to mention in my previous comment that yes, installing spice-vdagent in the guest OS fixed the issue for me. It also seems to have improved performance significantly (?) > Summary line is not for asking questions and suggesting alternative summary lines Except when I have a pending question ("is this strictly required") and to indicate a probable title change if the answer is "Yes"; if spice-vdagent is strictly required for GNOME Boxes to do its job correctly, then the summary becomes: "Show an infobar when a desktop VM is missing guest additions, and explain how to fix it"
(In reply to Jean-François Fortin Tam from comment #7) > > > Summary line is not for asking questions and suggesting alternative summary lines > > Except when I have a pending question ("is this strictly required") Yes, it's not for asking questions, even about possible change of title. :) Just use the comments for all discussions. :)
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