On 22/1/20 17:44, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 2020-01-21 10:04, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 21/1/20 12:52, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> On 13/1/20 23:41, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 2020-01-13 13:08, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>>> I am running the VM's in Vmware Player V15
>>> Which also leads to the questions....
>>>
>>> Your VMware host is running F31/GNOME/Wayland? If so, if you run GNOME/Xorg
on the host
>>> are the guests still showing the same issues?
>>>
>>> And the user account in the guest, it is vanilla? Meaning no changes from
the time of creation. No
>>> gnome-shell extensions or configuration changes?
>> Sorry for the slow response, we are getting a kitchen renovation done and the
internet is only intermittently available at the moment.
>> Vmware player is free. I haven't asked on the vmware forum yet, I just
figured that if it was fine in F30 it would be fine in F31.
>> The host I'm running Vmware player in is Windows 10. The guest in the VM is
F31 upgraded from F30 which in turn was upgraded from F29.
>> The user account in the guest I am using does have Gnome-shell extensions
installed, but they were installed before the upgrade to F31. The only issue I had with
the extensions was with Dash-to-dock, which I had to upgrade to V67 and V66 doesn't
work in F31, but even though it was upgraded I had to remove the extension settings from
my home folder before Gnome-tweaks would recognise that the version of Dash-to-dock that
was actually installed was V67 and not V66 (Gnome-tweaks was continually saying it could
load the extension, and when I went into the settings interface the settings were saying
it was V66 even though V67 was actually installed and V66 had been manually removed
first).
>> To test whether it was an issue with my account, I created a user account for my
wife and tried that. This account was a vanilla account with no extensions and no Gnome
settings configuration at all. When I booted this account into Gnome with Wayland the
issue occurred. With both accounts the issue does not occur if I boot into Gnome with
Xorg, and it also doesn't occur if I boot both accounts into KDE.
>> Also to test whether there was an issue with the existing vm, I created a new vm
with F29 which was then upgraded to F31. The account defined in this vm was a vanilla
account with no changes at all, and this account encountered the issue when booting into
Gnome in Wayland. This install also provided entries in the dm for Gnome in Xorg and Gnome
Classic, and boot into both of those did not show the issue.
>> I haven't tried downloading an F31 live dvd to install into a vm as yet as I
haven't had the internet access and I probably still won't have it for another
week.
> Sorry, one thing I forgot to mention is this issue seems to only occur when
applications are run full screen (maximised). The screen resolution I am running is
3840x2075 due to vm limitations. The actual screen resolution is 3840x2160.
>
Well, I don't think I'm going to be of much help. I don't have a bare-metal
Win10 system from which to test.
But, it does sound more like a VMPlayer video driver issue more than anything else.
I've not used VMWare products for several years now. VirtualBox and qemu
virtualization are
sufficient for my needs.
Thanks Ed. I think I may have found a pointer to where the issue is.
Looking at xorg.0.log for Gnome with Xorg or KDE with Xorg, where the
issue doesn't occur, because there is no xorg.conf file Xorg is using a
default screen definition for which it is loading driver
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so and
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so, and from the
modelines displayed by the vmware driver the driver does not support the
3840x2075 resolution of the screen, so it is setting the resolution to
800x600. If I then maximise the window Xorg then scales the layout to
3840x2075. This happens both with Gnome and KDE, where everything works
fine. It seems to me that Wayland does not properly handle the
resolution rescaling. What I don't understand is what has changed in F31
to cause this, as there was no issue in F30.
regards,
Steve