Re: Interaction between g-s-d RandR component and VirtualBox Guest Additions

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 17:09 +0100, Michael Thayer wrote:

> Under the hood this is done by a tool running on the guest system which
> is notified of the change and pokes the guest video driver.  The guest
> video driver then changes its RandR mode list so that its preferred
> resolution is the new host window size and the tool switches to that
> resolution.
> 
> This works well until the user uses gnome-display-properties to select a
> resolution.  After this it seems that g-s-d tries to take over
> responsibility for screen resolutions, and the result is not very
> pretty.

So, are you saying that when the user resizes the VirtualBox window, a
RANDR event gets generated in the guest that tells it about the new
window size?

In theory that's pretty much what happens if you plug a new monitor, so
things should be fine, but from your mail that's clearly not the case :)
What is actually happening that isn't right?

  Federico