All guests exit full screen mode when any guest shuts down or suspends

I recently updated to the latest Parallels 11. I run various guest machines in Full Screen mode, but whenever I suspend or exit a guest, all the other guests exit full screen mode. The Guest OS doesn't seem to matter, as I've seen this happen with OS X, Windows, and Linux guests.

It will make Parallels unusable for me if I have to fix all of the windows inside my guests every time I suspend or shutdown a guest. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks,

Steve

 

Hi Steve, please try re-installing Parallels Tools and check how it goes. Refer to this KB article.

 

I removed the guest tools from my Windows guest and re-installed. It made no difference in the behavior. I didn't think I needed to re-install the guest tools in my OS X guest, since it was created in Parallels 11.

I would be a bit surprised if guest tools were the problem since I suspend the guest from the Control Center on the host, and it doesn't matter which guest I suspend, all guest windows come out of full screen mode.

I looked at all the preferences on the host and configuration options for the guest looking for something that might be related to the behavior I am seeing, but I couldn't find anything that seemed to fit. Is there something else I could try?

 

@SteveS6 requesting you create a support ticket here, so that we can assist you!

 

I have the same issue. This is with a fresh installation of El Capitan 10.11.1, fresh install of Parallels Desktop 11 and newly created guest machines.
Is it possible that this is related to another full screen issue as described here? I experience both of these full screen issues.

This isn't a world stopping issue, but it does regularly disrupt my workflow. The annoyance builds up over time and pretty much destroys the user experience.

 

I reported a support ticket on this issue, and they have acknowledged that it is a bug. They have entered it into their JIRA system, but I don't see any way to see the progress of it.

We'll be notified when the but is fixed, but without knowing if it is being actively worked, I don't know if I should wait it out, or if I need to downgrade to Parallels 10...

 

Thanks, that's good to know.
It would be nice if they had a public tracker or at least a list of known issues. It would save some time and effort.

I'm not really sure if it's an issue just with Parallels 11 or a combination with El Capitan. Still, I wouldn't really want to downgrade either one.

 

I'm still running Yosemite, so I think we can rule out El Capitan as the source of the problem.

I upgraded to Parallels 11 So that I could try out El Capitan in a guest before upgrading my host, but now I can't upgrade my OS until this issue gets fixed.

I agree that a public tracker would be nice because I don't know if this is something they'll release in the next couple of weeks in a patch, or if it will be months before it gets fixed. I don't even know if they were able to reproduce the issue on their end, or if they just assigned it to the dev team to research further.

 

Same happening here. Every time I close or suspend a VM (Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Ubuntu), all the remaining exit the fullscreen mode. This really disturbs the workflow and messes up the VM desktops opened apps. I'm using OSX fullscreen mode (Parallels Desktop fullscreen mode is not really an option) with Parallels Desktop 11.0.2 and El Capitan.

 

I was in the process of downloading and installing the latest build previous message was posted

It appears that build 11.1.0 does indeed fix this issue. Suspending a VM no longer takes the suspended guest out of full screen mode for easy closing like version 10 did, but I can easily live with that.

Thanks for the quick turn around,

Steve

 

Glad to hear that the latest build of Parallels Desktop fixed the issue. Feel free to reach out, we are here to help!