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Hi all,
I have made a fresh arch install as a VirtualBox Guest to try Gnome 3.14, everything is working fine except when I click "Show Applications" or when type few letters on the application search (overview pane).
When I click "Show Applications" I see the animation with all the icons moving in place, but then they all disapear showing a empty pane (the scroll "dots" are displayed, but if I scroll up and down sometimes the shell freezes for a minute or so).
The same happens when I type few letters on the search and the number of apps returned is high, I see the icons apear and then they vanish for all eternity and I get a blank pane (if the search returns few apps, the icons are displayed without any problem and the "Search the wef for %s" also apears).
I have tried to find a buggy .desktop file in the "/usr/share/applications/" folder, but the only conclusion I could make was that the number of icons is the problem, if they all fit on display without scrolling I have no problem, otherwise they disapear.
Has anyone had a problem like this before? I have been searching in the forums but was unable to find anything similar to this.
Thanks in advance,
Pedro
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I can't offer much help but since nobody else has replied -
You don't mention anything about your host machine. What OS, and are the host OS and the host Virtualbox versions up to date? Have you followed the instructions in the Arch wiki for installing an Arch guest?
I run a VB guest X64 Arch GNOME 3.14 system within an X64 Arch host, and within a Mac OSX host (over all recent OSX upgrades) and both work very well, including the app overview display.
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My host is a windows 7 machine, I'm using VirtualBox 4.3.18 and I have installed the guest additions with pacman and from the guest additions iso, but the problem remains.
I was able to pinpoint the problem, this only happens when I have 3D support activated in the VM, running glxgears I get
libGL error: core dri or dri2 extension not found
libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideoI could find a lot more information searching this error(seems to be a virtualbox problem), but I still haven't found a solution
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and from the guest additions iso, but the problem remains.
The "guest additions iso" is not relevant to Arch guests, as the wiki says. Did you install virtualbox-guest-utils on the guest? Have you installed the kernel modules (add to /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf) etc, as the wiki dictates. vboxvideo is one of those modules so that seems to be your problem. Make sure you also start the guest services as per the wiki.
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