choosing options in virtualbox

[hen6003]

the menu for choosing options in virtualbox is behind the window, probably due to floating windows being on top of other windows

[con-f-use]

Thatnks for reporting. That doesn't seem like a bug, you just have to move the window or make the one behind it floating and/or move it to the top of the stack. Also, why is there a Windows window in your Linux machine?

[xzybus]

Thatnks for reporting. That doesn't seem like a bug, you just have to move the window or make the one behind it floating and/or move it to the top of the stack. Also, why is there a Windows window in your Linux machine?

hey the windows window is the os selecting part of virtualbox so basically the problem why we reported it

[hen6003]

better image

[UserXGnu]

This issue seems to be related to the window reparenting regarding java applications in tiling windows.
Normally you need to add

export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1
export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
wmname compiz

to your ~/.xinitrc, however as instantwm is launched through gdm, it doesn't look like it's working.

[paperbenni]

You'd have to add it to the instantwm wrapper or /etc/profile to apply this
I can't test this right now but I'll give it a shot when I can.
One thing though: doesn't wmname compiz leave applications to assume you're using compiz? Aren't there some applications that then apply like compiz specific tweaks/behaviours that might not necessarily work on instantWM?

[UserXGnu]

On suckless webpage they also suggest using:

wmname LG3D

https://tools.suckless.org/x/wmname/

As for the compiz, I've been using dwm for quite some years now and never had any issue with that so I guess no problem there.