resizable window when not running full screen

[metaeducation]

Hello,

In full screen mode, I tend to want to run Windows at the precise size of my screen. However, when I return to windowed mode, the Parallels window is obviously awkwardly large.

It is my understanding that OS/X Quartz has some hardware-level access to scaling. This is what's used by Expose to shrink the windows down, and it seems like the system can . They get a little blurry but it's not a bad effect, text is still readable, and certainly something I'd be willing to deal with in those few occasions where I'm trying to manage Windows and OS/X side by side. Is it possible to leverage this somehow and make it so that the Parallels window is resizable?

Scroll bars would make another nice option or fallback...at least so that I could keep Parallels from overtaking the desktop when I exit full screen.

Thanks...

 

[David Lau]

I hate the full screen mode which takes over Dashboard and Dock and the Virtual Desktop Virtue is nice but still buggy especially with new popup windows from iChat. Therefore, I stopped using the full screen mode (and also Virtue) and started using Windows mode in custom size 1976x1004 (which is almost full screen only with menubar and window's title bar). I'm using iMac intel 20" and am very happy with it now. I can now access Dashboard/Dock while running Windows XP in Parallel. I wish the next beta version will fix the problem and hopefully have hotkey/hotcorner so that it will switch back and forth between OSX and Windows. That would be sweet!