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Unity elements sometimes appear while full screen in Virtualbox - how to stop it?

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http://askubuntu.com – Launcher is great, and it helps me finds stuff. I have the latest release of 12. But when I'm full screen in VirtualBox running another operating system and I hit some key combination I haven't yet figured out, Unity suddenly grabs keyboard focus. It might be alt-tab, it might be left-control x. I have physically pulled both the windows key and FN key off my laptop because they get in the way, so it's probably not the windows key. You don't know the focus has been stolen because the full screen app (VirtualBox) is still full screen and the Unity element is in the background. But you're busy (HowTos)

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I have reopened the Unity launcher by disabling auto-hide, thanks to this post -- http://askubuntu.com/a/106673/42720

I am running 12.04 in VirtualBox, and have tested this in both full-screen and windowed mode. Moving the mouse to the left side, or top-left corner, of the Ubuntu desktop does not make the Unity launcher reappear.

Unity provides a complete, simple, touch-ready environment that integrations your applications and your workflow.Unity is designed for netbooks and related touch-based devices.

Hi, anyone seen this problem, which I have been suffering with for a couple of weeks.

Basically I am running 12.04 in virtualbox on my HP laptop.

I couldn't find an answer for this, so I thought I would try here.

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When virtualbox is running in fullscreen mode, and I'll minimize it to go back to Unity, the only visible elements are the wallpaper and the background shadow of the upper bar. If then I click on virtualbox main window return all normal. I want to report a bug, but I don't know if is Unity or Virtualbox issue. Thanks in advance!

I have the same problem like mentioned in this thread.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12257698

When virtualbox is running in fullscreen mode, and I'll minimize it to go back to Unity, the only visible elements are the wallpaper and the background shadow of the upper bar. If then I click on virtualbox main window return all normal.