[Bug 351518] Re: Booting a virtualbox instance redraws the window many times

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** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose
  
- While booting a client image, Virtualbox appears to basically destroy
- its main window and draw a new one something like half a dozen times.
+ It appears that when a Virtualbox instance changes its video mode, this
+ causes Virtualbox to destroy its window and create a new one.
+ 
+ If the user has switched to a different workspace in the meantime, the
+ new window will be drawn in the currently active workspace, effectively
+ causing Virtualbox to appear to switch workspaces on its own.
+ 
+ While booting a client image (e.g. any recent Ubuntu live CD), this
+ happens multiple times in fairly rapid succession.
+ 
  This is annoying a disruptive when you are attempting to get some other
- work done while booting an image.
- 
- I frequently click "start" and switch to a different workspace in order
- to do some other work while the image starts, but because of this
- behavior, it will not stay on the workspace where I started it, either.
+ work done while booting an image.  I frequently click "start" and switch
+ to a different workspace in order to do some other work while the image
+ starts, but because of this behavior, Virtualbox will not stay on the
+ workspace where I started it.  Instead, it pops up on top of the current
+ window, in the worst case stealing password input or other sensitive
+ keystrokes.
  
  vnix$ apt-cache policy virtualbox-ose
  virtualbox-ose:
-   Installed: 2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu1
-   Candidate: 2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu1
-   Version table:
-  *** 2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu1 0
-         500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
-         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+   Installed: 2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu1
+   Candidate: 2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu1
+   Version table:
+  *** 2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu1 0
+         500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  
  vnix$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 8.10
  Release:        8.10

** Summary changed:

- Booting a virtualbox instance redraws the window many times
+ Video mode change in client should not create a new window

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Video mode change in client should not create a new window
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351518
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