After the update that was released on 4 August, this is still unresolved, but it has changed, indicating that Oracle may be working on it. Whereas before, when a VM went to full screen during a Wayland session, it would immediately lock up, and be unresponsive. Since, at full screen, it then covered the host's display, the host was also locked up, for all practical purposes.

I don't know whether I've mentioned this before, but in a Wayland session, I can successfully maximize a VM within the host window's client area. This does not lock up the VM or the host, but it's still not full-screen. And some distros/DEs do not automatically resize to fit within that client area, but display scroll bars instead, making it very difficult to use both OSs without a lot of manual scrolling.. Solus MATE is an example of that.

Now that Solus 4.4 has been released, and I still cannot take a VM to full-screen while in a Wayland session, I thought I'd ask about it again here.

FALSE ALARM: I checked the account settings again, and discovered that I hadn't checked the { X } Use HTML property on that account's settings. The text box entries were all nearly identical, but not the checkbox.

This Thunderbird instance supports three email accounts. So there are three entries in the Account Settings, all of them using the same method to define a signiture. After I created this report, it occurred to me to check whether the other accounts are working.

Thanks. If someone can be ffound to maintain it, this might help. There doesn't seem to much activity there, though, in the last year or so.

I was originally interested in this, because I was using the EFL-based Terminology emulator, and was very impressed with it. And as a retired enterprise software engineer (Windows), I figured it should be both interesting and possible for me to take it on. It turns out I was wrong about that. I wasn't even able to get it to build as-is.

In T10563#202105, @stalebrim wrote:

Did you format the disk as GPT?

This is a very long thread, and I haven't read every message, but is it possible your swap is using a file instead of a partition? I'm pretty sure I've inadvertently told a machine to hibernate that did not have a swap partition defined, and it did, but it was very slow.

It turns out that the problem was a space after the user name. The installation is now continuing. Since adding a space after typing a word is a common habit in most circumstances, this could be a frequent problem for users. They wouldn't expect that to be the problem any more than I did. I suggest that these text fields be trimmed to prevent errors like this from happening.

Looking at that page again in the forum, I'm now aware that the field for my user name does not have a checkmark. It has the 0 with a diagonal line through it, My user name, jerry, has never been rejected before. I was paying attention to make sure my password matched the confirmation field, and didn't notice that the user name was not checked.

In T10563#202099, @EbonJaeger wrote:

I am unable to reproduce the issue using the downloaded MATE ISO.

The only difference in setup is that I'm using GNOME Boxes for virtual machines. Besides that, the VM is set up for EFI, I set up the disk for GPT, created a 1 GB fat32 partition as the first partition, then created partitions for swap and root. After the partitions were created, I changed the flags for the boot partition to boot + esp. In the installer, I assigned mount points to swap and root, and on the next page the fat32 partition was identified and pre-selected for installing the bootloader.

In T10563#202095, @joebonrichie wrote:

Any reason for not allowing the installer to auto create the ESP partition? We know in general that os-installer sucks when trying to use custom ESP partitions but it's not super likely to get fixed as we're looking to drop os-installer and switch to calamares.

Apparently this can be ignored. When I returned to the VM, I was able to assign the mount points normally. I have no idea why it didn't work the first time I tried. I had already created the Budgie and GNOME VMs, where I didn't run into this problem. I'll continue with the installation and testing.

I just realized I typed HOME+F when I meant to type HOST+F. I hope I caused no confusion with that, but couldn't find a way to edit it.

Thanks, Zach. I'm pretty sure I'm set up properly now.

I hope that this turns out to be the hardest part of maintaining a package! Apparently Thunderbird's chat account must be considered a "web IRC client," because nothing I could do there has worked. So I installed hexchat (it was not a default on Plasma) and made a lot of progress. However, as noted, #solus-dev requires being registered with the "nick server." Nothing I've seen so far has provided a clue how to do that.

Thanks for pointing that out. I got it wrong in the one place that mattered. I've deleted that account and created a new one with the correct port number.

There was a field for "Auto-joined channels," which I left empty, because I didn't know what to put there. Was that correct, or is something actually needed there? By the way, I didn't enter "libra," it was "libera." I mistyped here.

I think I set up Thunderbird corectly. The default there was irc.libra.chat, so I added port 6997. When I tried to connect, this is what I got (for several minutes). Any ideas? Meanwhile I'll go back and re-check everything I entered.

Until now, I haven't had a reason to use IRC. Where I last worked, we had an enterprise chat as part of Lotus Notes. I can set up an IRC chat account through Thunderbird, but I need to know what chat server to link with. I'm guessing that's irc.getsol.us, but I'd like to know for sure before I try using that. Please advise.

I may be willing to do it, but for now I'm willing to consider doing it. The idea is both exciting and terrifying, as all my professional development has been on Windows. My only Linux build experience has involved a few applications that came with very talented makefiles, and none of it on Solus. It's been about five years since I've used git. I've never built an eopkg package. I'll be 75 years old tomorrow.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no longer any reason to pursue this farther. I was interested in mono because for about the last 20 years I've been programming in C#. I thought I could easily modify some of my applications and utilities to work on Linux distros using mono.

This input is marked "Add Action...", but I'm hoping I can use it to answer Josh's comment. (It's my first time for using this service.)