This morning no running application would get the focus when I clicked its icon on the task bar. I rebooted the machine and everything started working smoothly again.
Now, by the end of the day, I had to run Windows 8.0 inside VirtualBox so I could acomplish a job that I have been able to do only on windows (signing a document with an
smart card and jsigndpdf). But, VirtualBox would never show up on the screen, much less get the focus (as in the morning, only that time no application would work).
It would go straight to a minimized state. If I clicked "maximize", it would flash quickly in the screen, as if moving to the right and disappearing outside the rightmost edge.
Another click would make it flash quickly again and disappear. The option maximize/minimize would switch back and forth.
Well, I tried again and again, same behaviour. Rebooting the machine did not make it work. Finally I tried running it from a terminal. This time it worked. I did what I had to do
and then tried to run a second instance from the terminal. Did not work. But then, then instance that was working stopped working. Now I am back to the initial state:
I can't run it even from a terminal (that is, it runs, but stays in the task bar, no displaying, no focus).
Any hints (I can't remember having made any change either to the operating system or to virtualbox itself).
- fernando
Now, by the end of the day, I had to run Windows 8.0 inside VirtualBox so I could acomplish a job that I have been able to do only on windows (signing a document with an
smart card and jsigndpdf). But, VirtualBox would never show up on the screen, much less get the focus (as in the morning, only that time no application would work).
It would go straight to a minimized state. If I clicked "maximize", it would flash quickly in the screen, as if moving to the right and disappearing outside the rightmost edge.
Another click would make it flash quickly again and disappear. The option maximize/minimize would switch back and forth.
Well, I tried again and again, same behaviour. Rebooting the machine did not make it work. Finally I tried running it from a terminal. This time it worked. I did what I had to do
and then tried to run a second instance from the terminal. Did not work. But then, then instance that was working stopped working. Now I am back to the initial state:
I can't run it even from a terminal (that is, it runs, but stays in the task bar, no displaying, no focus).
Any hints (I can't remember having made any change either to the operating system or to virtualbox itself).
- fernando