"Show and hide Parallels Desktop" difference in Parallels 8

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by JippoT, Apr 11, 2013.

  1. JippoT

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    After upgrading from Parallels 7 to 8, my keyboard shortcuts are not working as they did. It comes down to "Show and hide Parallels Desktop" function, I think. I included a screenshot of that above. The difference is, previously when I pressed F6, while on Coherence mode, it put the focus on the virtual OS (WinXP in my case). Now what happens is, there is a certain level of graphical focus change (a window graphic is basically activated in WinXP), however the keyboard focus does not actually change to WinXP. Pressing any keyboard key causes an error sound and nothing is received in WinXP. For example the Win-key only beeps the error but Start menu does not appear. Only after changing the focus with a mouse click the keyboard starts working for WinXP.

    The "Show and hide Parallels Desktop" does work as before in the Window mode, then focus is indeed changed properly. But it changed for the Coherence mode. Is there a fix?
     

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