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Post by earlypearly on Apr 11, 2023 20:31:40 GMT
Hello all,
I tried Hippytaff's ideas for installing Guest Additions ISO for the Bodhi OS I was running inside Virtualbox, but am still having problems. I went to the Treminal and keyed in:
sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
It went through the process, then prompted me to reboot for the changes to take effect, but after rebooting, nothing had changed. What am I doing wrong? Thanks,
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Post by earlypearly on Apr 11, 2023 20:33:27 GMT
I should have credited Enigma also. My apologies.
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 11, 2023 23:08:37 GMT
Did you get any errors installing it? The most likely errors are you don't have build-esstials/gcc installed or don't have kernel headers installed or dont have dkms installed. But 99% sure all of that stuff is preinstalled on the alpha iso's cuz I don't remember having to install anything first, what version of bodhi are you using? What OS and version of virtualbox are you using out of curiosity, it probably shouldn't matter tho, mainly just curious?
What change were you looking for? The most obvious thing to check is that the video driver is installed, and if it is, you'll be able to change guest resolution from host virtualbox menu. Another thing is you can enable copy & paste, I always enable that for bidirectional. There are other features too, but those are the two I use it for...
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Post by earlypearly on Apr 12, 2023 1:58:22 GMT
Thank you, Enigma.
I just ran cat /etc/os-release, and it said Ubuntu 20.05. I downloaded the only Bodhi release about one year ago.
I am mainly looking to drag and drop, from the host (also Bodhi) to the guest (Bodhi).
I am running the Linux version of Virtualbox 6.1.38 (if I remember right).
Can you tell me how to check if the video driver is installed? And the kernel headers?
Thanks for your help.
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 13, 2023 20:17:20 GMT
That's Bodhi 6, should be fine. I haven't used drag and drop personally... maybe I'll test it later tho... I use a similar version of virtualbox myself. It's always popping up telling me to upgrade to version 7.x tho! As to the video driver, I think anything that shows the driver would work.... like neofetch or "inxi -G" but they require installation first. Sorry I dunno the direct commands to do it with drivers, they're something to do with modprobe or something but I dunno. If you didn't have the kernel headers (or build-essential or dkms) installed, when you tried to install the guest additions you would see errors about it. If you didn't pay much attention to the text that came out, just run it again, won't hurt to run twice, just wastes time. To specifically check if you have the headers installed, one way (of many) is "apt policy linux-headers-generic" and see if there is anything listed for installed version.
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Post by earlypearly on Apr 14, 2023 14:07:05 GMT
Thank you, Enigma, I will keep trying.
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 18, 2023 2:50:21 GMT
I finally decided to try drag and drop. This is something new to me so not sure exactly what you are expecting it to do. I personally just use sftp in thunar if I want to transfer files host/guest and that works well... just open thunar on the guest side and put "sftp:://hostname" into the address bar (where hostname is the hostname of your host pc). But I digress.... I started by reading about it here docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/user/guestadd-dnd.html but that wasn't super helpful, other than it tells me the app has to support "XDND" for it to accept files being dropped into it. It seems to me thunar does not support this... so can't receive files into a certain folder this way. But other apps I tried all worked, including terminology and leafpad - what happened was when I drag the file from host into client app, it would put the file in /tmp/"Virtualbox Dropped Files"/timestamp-blahblah and open it immediately in the app I dragged it to. I tried loading the dekstop files module, to see if maybe I could drag files direct to the guest desktop (which uses a built in enlightenment file manager, not thunar), but no luck there either, just like thunar it didn't accept files. So I tried installing pcmanfm, same problem as thunar and efm.
Okay, so I got fancy and installed nemo, which pulled in lots of dependencies. And it works for receiving files in any folder. I also tested pcmanfm-qt and it works too.
I'm gunna keep looking into see if there's an xdnd plugin or something for thunar tho, or perhaps another way besides installing a heavy filemanager. But the tldr for now is, install nemo or pcmanfm-qt on the host or client where you want to recieve files and open it in the folder you want to put them, if you wish to use drag and drop for transferring files.
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 18, 2023 4:18:33 GMT
Well, it seems this is a known issue with thunar and there is a bug report filed with xfce about it: gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/113So not much we can probably do about that, unless you happen to be a C Programmer and want to try to fix it... |
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 18, 2023 19:50:04 GMT
So, I tested Bodhi 6 Enlightenment Edition - and the desktop there works as a XDND destination I can drag and drop files directly there. So, it is possible one of our esteemed developers ( ylee or thewaiter) could possibly port that feature from E to Moksha's "Desktop Icons" files module if our module is based on theirs. I could be completely wrong tho, maybe it's lots of work. |
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Post by imr on Apr 19, 2023 1:08:02 GMT
Hello all,
I tried Hippytaff's ideas for installing Guest Additions ISO for the Bodhi OS I was running inside Virtualbox, but am still having problems. I went to the Treminal and keyed in:
sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
It went through the process, then prompted me to reboot for the changes to take effect, but after rebooting, nothing had changed. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, |
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Post by imr on Apr 19, 2023 1:16:56 GMT
Hi,
I installed Bodhi Linux 6.0.0 AppPack, this distro works fine. But I have two queries:
1.- I can't find a solution: When I want to place an icon of a program, dragging it with the mouse, I can't do it. Unlike a Linux Mint. How can I put icons on the desktop?
2.- I can't find a Usb Indicator to install, that tells me when to safely remove the USB?
Thank you.
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 19, 2023 2:31:19 GMT
Hi, I installed Bodhi Linux 6.0.0 AppPack, this distro works fine. But I have two queries: 1.- I can't find a solution: When I want to place an icon of a program, dragging it with the mouse, I can't do it. Unlike a Linux Mint. How can I put icons on the desktop? 2.- I can't find a Usb Indicator to install, that tells me when to safely remove the USB? Thank you. 0. Maybe start a new thread for new issues next time, instead of replying to another issue. I imagine this was just cuz you're not familiar with this forum yet, hope you can find this reply....
1. Start/Settings/Modules/Files/Desktop Icons/Load
2. Add the "Places" module to your shelf. When a usb drive is there, click on the unmount (eject) icon on the right side of it. Alternatively you can just unmount from thunar.
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