I am using beta 3106. When I am in the office I connect my 15" MacBook Pro (1440 x 900) to a 23" Apple Cinema Display (1920 x 1200). I have the computer setup to use the 23" display as the boot screen. When I launch Parallels with Windows XP everything works great. The Parallels window shows up in the middle of the display and the VM window opens up to its preset 1280 x 800 resolution. HOWEVER, when I'm not in the office I have a problem. When I launch Parallels and the VM window opens it is no longer able to open to its preset 1280 x 800 resolution. Rather, the Parallels window which is sitting in the center of the MacBook display, starts to open up but the bottom right corner of the VM window hits the lower right corner of the display screen long before it reaches its preset 1280 x 800 resolution. I would like to see you guys make it so that in this scenario, where the resolution of the VM is larger than can be opened between the center of the display and the lower right corner of the display, that you will push the upper left corner of the VM window up towards the upper left corner of the display. If someone has set the resolution so large that it would exceed the size of the computer display then stop expanding when the upper right edge of the VM window encounters the upper right corner of the display.
I use top left corner with a simialr set up but when starting paralles it should always remember the last screen postion of the open OS window it is usually about one inch further to the right and down too by boot screen do you mean Mac OS menu bar postion Roger? I have my cinema sceen above the angled lap top screen http://mac-on-intel.blogspot.com/ http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1424/216/1600/322212/DSC00007.jpg http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/3828/1104807377050524/1600/DSC00002.jpg and with Parallels runing Family Tree maker 16 http://mac-on-intel.blogspot.com/2006/11/tree-charting-on-screen.html my own "killer app" Hugh W
A little additional explanation At work my Macbook sits immediately to the right of the 23" display. The 23" display and the 15" MacBook Pro display share a common top edge in the Displays Perference setting. The 23" display is the primary monitor where the Mac OS Menu Bar is located. The problem I encounter is that, by default, the Parallels window initially opens in the center of the display and when the VM is launched it pushes the lower right edge of the window towards the lower right corner of the 23" display. The resolution of the VM window is such that it all fits nicely. HOWEVER, when I am simply running on only the MacBook, and I launch Parallels, it shows up in the center of the screen and when the VM is launched it pushes the lower right corner of the window towards the lower right corner of the MacBook display but the MacBook display lacks the resolution of the 23" display and the VM runs out of screen realestate and the VM window's expansion stops at that point, even though it has not reached the resolution it was previous operating at. I would like to see Parallels be intelligent enough to realize that the VM expansion isn't equal to the previous setting and therefore automatically check to se if perhaps there is room to slide the overall VM window towards the upper right of the display thus creating enough room for the proper VM resolution to occur. Roger
Parallels Video Driver Using Multiple Monitors with Windows XP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/northrup_multimon.mspx "f you're a laptop user like me, you don't have the option of adding another video adapter, but your laptop might support using Dualview with an external monitor and the laptop's built-in display. If it does support Dualview, just do what I did: plug a monitor into the external VGA port of your laptop and turn on the Dualview feature of Windows XP. To turn on Dualview, follow these steps: 1. Right-click the desktop, and then click Properties. 2. In the DisplayProperties dialog box, click the Settings tab. 3. Click the Display list and select your external monitor. If you do not see multiple monitors listed, your computer hardware may not support Dualview. You can still use MaxiVista to configure a second computer as an additional display, however. 4. Select the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor option. Click Apply or OK. Now I can have different windows open on my laptop's built-in display and the external monitor. I can move windows between the two displays and even stretch windows across both displays. For more information on how to move from one monitor to the other, see Expand Your Workspace with Multiple Monitors and Dualview."¨¨ what we need please Hugh W
