I set up a Xubuntu VM through Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager a few weeks ago and haven’t used it much but this issue has persisted pretty much since I set it up.
The native terminal is a bit slow – sometimes I need to hit enter twice for it to refresh it the command doesn’t return anything in terminal (e.g. after touch index.html if I hit enter, there is no new line, though after ls there is a new command line as expected (below the contents of the current directory). This is a bit frustrating but not the main issue.
The main issue pertains to the VS Code terminal. The actual text editor works pretty much fine, however the built-in terminal for VS Code will only update when I hit spacebar or possibly a couple of other keys (I haven’t texted exhaustively).
As a concrete example, if I was to type cd Documents/repos/project1/pages/, I would see the following:
cdafter typing in 3 characters- Nothing until I hit enter, when the rest of the line would appear. Obviously, this can make it quite annoying to deal with typos.
In general, this isn’t a massive problem when I can use tab completion to navigate directories etc., but as soon as tab completion isn’t solving all of my problems it makes the terminal quite frustrating to use.
Note: Whilst testing as I wrote this, I found that it was also just completely freezing after the first character at times, which I hadn’t seen before (still updating after hitting enter) – this was the only time I had tried to use the VM outside of full screen which maybe interfered with something?.
Some context for the specs on the VM:
- Base Memory: 8GB
- Processors: 2 (of 8)
- Boot order: Hard Disk, Optical, Floppy (no idea if this is relevant or useful)
- Video Memory: 32 MB
- Acceleration: 3D
Plenty of googling attempted, but can’t find anything specific to this. Wondering if there’s a specific VM spec I can upgrade that should tackle this or if it’s a more fundamental problem?
Have looked through the VS Code terminal settings but nothing jumped out to me.
I’m unsure if this is a hardware or a software fix, so if I’m squarely in the wrong place apologies and please direct me to the best place for the problem.