George, I may be off-base here, and I'm no expert on the details of the VBox GUI. However, I have had situations where, due to a custom color palette, I ended up with the text color being the same as the background color. It appears that there's a code bug that is not populating the pulldown, but the text might actually be there.
It might be instructive to set up another userid on your system that uses an uncustomized desktop config. Or if you have some old system sitting on the shelf, do a full generic OS install, and see if the symptom appears there. (The behavior of this GUI should not be dependent on the age or speed of the system it's running on.) Another thing to try would be to click in the menu where the text should be, and see what happens. This would prove that the text is there. It does seem that if this was a pervasive 'blank menu' issue, the VBox developers would have found it during testing. -Dave -- Dave Hall Binghamton University On Sat, Jul 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM George R Goffe via VBox-users-community < [email protected]> wrote: > Howdy, > > I have just installed the latest VB Beta2 upgrade... Same problem. Sigh... > > Here's a jpg that shows the problem I'm see. Just so you don't think I'm > imagining things. > > Best regards, > > George... > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 12:46:56 PM PDT, George R Goffe < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Howdy, > > I just installed the beta (VirtualBox-7.2.97_BETA2-169467-Linux_amd64.run) > and once again I find that it is broken. > > What I'm seeing is the pull-down menu items have no text on the display. > This system is an up-to-date Fedora 42 distribution on a quite new computer > (VivoBook S16). Window Maker is the desktop manager. The Wayland X11 (KDE?) > has geometry problems... using only about 25% of the display which causes > me difficulty seeing what is being displayed. > > This problem has existed for several months, even on a REALLY old ASUS > laptop... and has appeared on Fedora 43 as well. The "normal" (Released) > version of VB works quite well though. > > Is anyone else seeing this? Can I be the only person having trouble with > this beta? > > Could someone take a peek at this situation please? > > Best regards, > > George... > > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected] > ?subject=unsubscribe >
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