Something fullscreen mode doesn't do in 3036

[tomservo291]

I noticed now that when using full-screen mode that there is slightly different behavior...

If you use the cmd-tab application switcher to switch to a full-screen instance of parallels, it doesnt become active (I.E. the OS X parallels menu and dock are still visible above the VM until you click inside the VM.) This becomes irritating after awhile.. and this didn't use to happen in 1970.

Also, when I use dual monitors at work, i have Parallels XP full-screen on one monitor, and OS X on another. When you move the mouse over to the other monitor, similarly, you need to click to gain focus there.

Even if you can't make this the default behavior (I can think of some obvious reasons why,) I think there should be some config options to make this the default behavior, as for normal use once the VM is setup properly this is the kind of seamless integration I would like to see.

 

[mikemcg]

I too am troubled by this behavior. I personally prefer to have Parallels running on its own Virtue Desktop, giving one Virtue Desktop to each operating system desktop environment. In the past, this had the effect of both the Mac OS X desktop and the Windows desktop each equally having total control over one Virtue Desktop. This gave the appearance of Windows running not as a guest of but as an equal to Mac OS X. That natural and intuitive facade is unfortunately tarnished by the behavior of the 3036, because 3036 constantly overlays the Parallels menu bar and the Dock on the Windows desktop each time one Command-Tab's to Parallels. The preferred behavior would be raising the guest OS window to the top, above the Dock and Mac OS X menu bar, whenever one Command-Tab's to Parallels.