[Bug 729189] New: Gnome 3 usability is impaired under vmware
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c0 Summary: Gnome 3 usability is impaired under vmware Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Factory Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: carlos.e.r@opensuse.org QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Gnome 3 usability is impaired under vmware I have installed 12.1 RC 2 under vmware player 4 on a 11.4 host. Gnome comes in Failsafe or Fallback mode. Right click on anywhere does not respond. It is not possible to add applets or configure the panels, or to configure the background, anything. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c1 Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |carlos.e.r@opensuse.org --- Comment #1 from Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> 2011-11-09 11:38:14 UTC --- (In reply to comment #0)
Gnome 3 usability is impaired under vmware
That's just the fallback mode.
I have installed 12.1 RC 2 under vmware player 4 on a 11.4 host. Gnome comes in Failsafe or Fallback mode. Right click on anywhere does not respond.
Are you sure?
It is not possible to add applets or configure the panels,
Press Alt when right-clicking.
or to configure the background, anything.
The background is not drawn by nautilus, so there's no right-click on it anymore. You can add that back in the advanced settings (aka gnome-tweak-tool). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c2 Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED CC| |vuntz@suse.com InfoProvider|carlos.e.r@opensuse.org | Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #2 from Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> 2011-11-09 11:39:18 UTC --- Sorry, mischanged the status. (if the bug is that fallback is not usable the way you want, then it's way too late to file such a bug for 12.1 as nothing can be changed there) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c3 Carlos Robinson <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|INVALID |FIXED --- Comment #3 from Carlos Robinson <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> 2011-11-09 11:50:31 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1)
(In reply to comment #0)
Gnome 3 usability is impaired under vmware
That's just the fallback mode.
Well,, the fallback mode is impaired.
I have installed 12.1 RC 2 under vmware player 4 on a 11.4 host. Gnome comes in Failsafe or Fallback mode. Right click on anywhere does not respond.
Are you sure?
Absolutely.
It is not possible to add applets or configure the panels,
Press Alt when right-clicking.
No response. Logged out, then in, and then it worked.
or to configure the background, anything.
The background is not drawn by nautilus, so there's no right-click on it anymore. You can add that back in the advanced settings (aka gnome-tweak-tool).
Well, I tried a few things there, like adding the home icon. It does not appear, even after log-in-out. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c4 Carlos Robinson <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|FIXED | --- Comment #4 from Carlos Robinson <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> 2011-11-09 11:52:23 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2)
Sorry, mischanged the status.
(if the bug is that fallback is not usable the way you want, then it's way too late to file such a bug for 12.1 as nothing can be changed there)
It is still a bug. We report the bugs with all the currently supported versions, even if it is not corrected till years later. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c5 Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |carlos.e.r@opensuse.org --- Comment #5 from Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> 2011-11-09 12:13:03 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3)
(In reply to comment #1)
The background is not drawn by nautilus, so there's no right-click on it anymore. You can add that back in the advanced settings (aka gnome-tweak-tool).
Well, I tried a few things there, like adding the home icon. It does not appear, even after log-in-out.
Did you enable the "Have file manager handle the desktop" option? (In reply to comment #4)
(In reply to comment #2)
Sorry, mischanged the status.
(if the bug is that fallback is not usable the way you want, then it's way too late to file such a bug for 12.1 as nothing can be changed there)
It is still a bug. We report the bugs with all the currently supported versions, even if it is not corrected till years later.
Except that it's not a bug, it's the way it's working :-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c6 Carlos Robinson <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |REOPENED InfoProvider|carlos.e.r@opensuse.org | --- Comment #6 from Carlos Robinson <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> 2011-11-09 19:13:09 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5)
Did you enable the "Have file manager handle the desktop" option?
I did. I did it again, and now the buttons changed colors - somehow the first time the change did not work. Logged out-in, and it holds. There was an update in between, dunno if it affected. Thanks.
Except that it's not a bug, it's the way it's working :-)
It is a very poor way of working, IMO. It is worse than gnome 2. It will have to be documented somewhere visible for all those that have to use the fallback. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c7 Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@vmware.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jakob@vmware.com --- Comment #7 from Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@vmware.com> 2012-06-28 13:56:01 UTC --- Enabling 3D support in the guest configuration should fix, but currently OpenSUSE 12.2 ships with broken packages missing several bits needed for the guest to take advantage of this. 1. The kernel driver isn't enabled (this was done at the recommendation of VMware, but this is no longer true and it can be enabled again). 2. libxatracker is not built in the mesa package, which is needed by the X driver in order to enable 3D support (both the mesa package and the vmware driver package needs to be replaced). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c8 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO CC| |dimstar@opensuse.org Component|GNOME |GNOME InfoProvider| |jakob@vmware.com Product|openSUSE 12.1 |openSUSE 12.2 Target Milestone|--- |Factory --- Comment #8 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2012-06-30 15:00:13 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7)
Enabling 3D support in the guest configuration should fix, but currently OpenSUSE 12.2 ships with broken packages missing several bits needed for the guest to take advantage of this.
1. The kernel driver isn't enabled (this was done at the recommendation of VMware, but this is no longer true and it can be enabled again).
Which kernel driver do you refer to? we have open-vm-tools 8.8.2 in openSUSE 12.2 with those modules enabled: vmci vmblock vmhgfs vmsync vsock
2. libxatracker is not built in the mesa package, which is needed by the X driver in order to enable 3D support (both the mesa package and the vmware driver package needs to be replaced).
osc ls -b openSUSE:12.2 Mesa standard x86_64 | grep track
in openSUSE 12.2, libxatracker is built: libxatracker-devel-1.0.0-20.1.1.x86_64.rpm libxatracker1-1.0.0-20.1.1.x86_64.rpm libxatracker1-debuginfo-1.0.0-20.1.1.x86_64.rpm Anything else we're missing? (moving the bug to 12.2... llvmpipe has no chance to get into 12.1) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c9 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED InfoProvider|jakob@vmware.com | Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #9 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2012-06-30 15:03:41 UTC --- Just saw that xf86-video-vmware was built without xatracker support.. that was missing. Package submitted in sr 126719 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c10 --- Comment #10 from Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@vmware.com> 2012-06-30 15:50:36 UTC --- Its missing the vmwgfx driver under the DRM tree. Of course this all requires 3D to be enabled on the host side. Without the kernel driver and that option, llvmpipe is still needed as a fallback. Cheers, Jakob. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c11 --- Comment #11 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2012-06-30 16:00:52 UTC --- I see... so currently, it 'works' but falls back to llvmpipe. And VMWare revised their proposal about the vmwgfx drm driver, which now should be enabled. I'll create a new bug entry against the kernel (this one here is against gnome) and recommend to enable the vmwgfx drm module. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blocks| |769534 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c12 --- Comment #12 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2012-06-30 16:05:41 UTC --- Bug reference for the kernel module: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769534 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729189#c13 --- Comment #13 from Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> 2012-07-01 14:00:08 CEST --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (729189) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/126776 Factory / xf86-video-vmware -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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