3036 - Where is FullscreenStayOnTop option?

[cjohnson78]

In previous releases, I could switch back to fullscreen Parallels (via. VirtueDesktops) and immediately start working in fullscreen. I had enabled the "Always Stay on Top in Fullscreen" option.

In build 3036, this option is not present anymore. When I toggle to my Parallels desktop, I am left with the menubar and dock until I click somewhere inside the VM.

I still notice the setting in the plist, "Parallels.LookAndFeel.FullscreenStayOnTop = 1", but it does not appear to be honored anymore.

Is this feature gone, or is something wrong with my setup?

Thanks,
Chad

 

[sirris101]

I too want this back. I switch back and forth with a Quicksilver trigger I've created. It lets me click in the bottom right hand corner. Clicking it toggles Parallels (in full screen mode) between show and hide. It's a much better (and faster) way to switch between Parallels and Mac OS X desktop.

In build 3036, when I switch back to Parallels, the Mac OS X dock and Parallels menubar appears over Windows until I click in the VM. It now takes two clicks, instead of one.

 

[Matt Stevens]

Another vote here to restore the old fullscreen behavior, I ended up downgrading to 1970 just to get this back.

 

[veggiedude]

I'm just guessing, but it seems to me that a feature like that may not be possible with Coherence, or if it is, there is a bit of future engineering to make both live together peacefully.

If I had to choose between one or the other, Coherence wins hands down.

 

[msb]

Another vote here to restore the old fullscreen behavior, I ended up downgrading to 1970 just to get this back.

Same here. :-(

 

[sirris101]

Maybe it's possible to only introduce this "option" when in Parallels is in full screen mode.

 

[knippers]

yet another request to restore the old fullscreen behavior.

 

[cjohnson78]

I keep coming up with reasons why they might have removed the feature. But I cannot come up with a reason to not at least make it an option. If it does not work with Coherence, fine. Let me choose which way I want it to behave.

 

[sfuller]

Along the same vein, and maybe I'm missing something, but I recall that you could set a VM to auto-start in full screen mode as a checkbox option. I too use Parallels with Virtue Desktop and I'd like this, as well as the stay on top in full screen option available once again.

 

[drinniol]

Is this still the case in 3170, or has it been returned?

 

[Matt Stevens]

I'm curious about this too - does the menu/dock still show up when switching to a fullscreen Virtue desktop in 3186? Coherence is cool, but personally I still prefer to use Windows in fullscreen mode and use Virtue to context switch.