F18 RC2 erratic GUI in VBox, missing installer window

[Adam Williamson]

On 2012-09-11 10:51, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Is anyone else testing in VirtualBox? F17 is quite well behaved in
> 4.1.20, but in F18 I'm having windows yanked out from under me
> constantly. I'm switched to Overview (as if I've clicked on
> Activities) just by moving the mouse while not clicking on anything.
>
> As Anaconda hub produces additional windows for its various steps
> (like partitioning), if this erratic switch to Gnome Overview mode
> happens, the anaconda child window is totally lost. I can't find a 
> way
> to get back to it, as it's not visible in Overview, just the original
> Anaconda "hub" window is visible, and because it has a child window
> waiting for completion I can't actually use the "hub" window at all,
> all options are grayed out except Quit - but clicking Quit does
> nothing.
>
> The mouse arrow is also extremely erratic: mousing upward randomly
> causes the mouse to vanish and shift 10-15% to the left (always 
> left),
> while the GUI behaves as if I'm clicking on Activities then clicking
> on an application window in Overview, then back on Activities… even
> though I'm not clicking on anything.
>
> Ahhh, if I click on Activities, then click-hold on the Install to
> Hard Drive icon, I get a contextual menu with two anaconda options.
> Choosing one gets me to the "hub" and choosing the other gets me back
> to the MIA child (partitioning in this case) window. Crisis averted.

Something similar is also happening in KVM, FWIW. 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856242 . 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852841 might be the earliest 
report, and suggests downgrading xorg can fix it. We should check if 
that fixes it for KVM and VBox too...

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