Still having problems with Guest Additions ISO installation

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.