I found a bug in Parallels that you may be interested in. It allows you to diplay part of Windows' desktop directly over the MacOSX Desktop. It is a bug, yes, but a very useful one. If you take this bug out, could you please add something similar as a feature? Here it is! http://i16.tinypic.com/2rcqv10.jpg (Low Quality in order to reduce file size) How this was done... Parallels Beta Verison - Windows XP Installed To glitch... Set the view to "Full Screen". Open a command prompt window and adjust it to the area that you want to glitch. Mine is that area on the left side. Switch the view to "Coherence". Minimize the Command Line. Voila! Now that area shows that part of the Windows desktop! The thing is... You still have a different background image! Let's fix that up. Hide Parallels and move any files from the area being glitched. (You're moving them on MacOSX. You're about to take a screen capture.) Other icons are okay if you're going to keep the view this way. You're really going to have to clean your desktop up good if you want to it perfect. (Though you'll have to figure out how to hide your hard drive icon...) Take a screen capture from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. Make sure you don't include the menu, but DO include the drop shadow. This is why you can't just drop the desktop image into Parallels and use that. The image is offset from the MacOSX one because of the OSX's menu. (And the dropshadow isn't there) Anyway... You should now have a screen shot that looks like this. http://i13.tinypic.com/33mbiau.jpg Also, the more accurate you are in starting exactly at the drop shadow, the better your results will be. Copy that into Parallels. (Not the image I posted... The one that you took.) Set it as your desktop image. If you need to glitch Parallels again, do it. It's very easy to do... Yeah, it's a pretty weird trick. Yes, you can see a little contrast between the two, but I find it satisfactory. I hope you enjoyed that. Now go run Windows and MacOSX split screen! Tricks: Multiple Command Prompts can glitch multiple areas. You can set up a few Windows "Boxes" if you want to. Fake icons. Take a picture and intentionally leave icons in the area you want to fake. Go through the normal process... Open the command promt and resize it to cover that one icon (or more if you have more), then glitch. You now have a fake icon on your Mac! (That runs Windows! See? Windows IS just a fake copy of Mac... *cough*...) P.S. Yes, this is a repost. The topic went unnoticed in the MacOSX version forum so I decided to post it in the guides forum. I want to get the word out so that the developers are aware of this bug and so that they can add a similar feature in if they decide to take it out. Enjoy!
<<<< P.S. Yes, this is a repost. The topic went unnoticed in the MacOSX version forum ...... >>>> So you decided that you could post it anywhere to get your personal attention? You should read forum descriptions, and respect all Parallels users by properly posting!
I want to get the word out. Take away all the credit from me for all I care. I just want people to know about this bug. (Specifically the developers.) I always use it with Parallels, and other people might find it useful.
