[Cialug] VirtualBox 6.1 & 6.1.2

[Dave Hala]

I switched over and ran the Gnome X11 server for a day.... the desktop is
faster, smoother and I haven't had any of the usual weird problems.


On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 3:38 PM Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 3:24 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Dave Hala wrote:
> >
> > > There is still something wonky with the guest display drivers too.
> >  Theywork fine on centos 6 & 7.  Gnome on Centos 7 works *really* well,
> > butGnome with Wayland on RHEL 8, has dismal performance, it randomly
> locks
> > uphard when resizing the guest window.
> > >
> > I tried Wayland about a year ago, .. definitely not ready for prime time.
> > Needs to get a LOT more polished - it was missing what I would consider
> > essential, such as copy/past in xTerm.
> >
>
> xterm? There are so many newer terminal emulators why are you stuck on
> that? Even gnome-terminal is good enough for my needs that I haven't
> bothered looking for anything else.
>
> Mainly the things that don't work very well are apps that haven't been
> rebuilt to use Wayland natively rather than using the XWayland
> compatibility layer.
>
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