Parallels tools work great in window managers such as Unity in Ubuntu 14.04 However, they don't work in tiling windows managers such as: Xmonad - http://xmonad.org/ i3 - http://i3wm.org/ (I am currently using i3) My suspicion is that parallels tools is not working (As There is no dynamic screen resolution and copying from mac to vm don't work) I have done: 1. Try reinstalling parallels tools from the GUI (Virtual Machine > Reinstall Parallels Tools) 2. Installing parallels tools using prl-tools-lin.iso (Link 1) None of these have worked. It is frustrating because i3 is basically not usable. It defaults to 1024*768 screen resolution, I can't have it on multiple screens and also cannot copy and paste from Mac. I get all of these functionalities back as soon as I log in using unity. Reproduce this issue: You can reproduce this issue if you do this: 1. sudo apt-get install i3 2. sudo reboot 3. And then please use i3 as the windows manager (You will now see that parallels tools stopped working) Link 1: http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v4/docs/en/Parallels_Desktop_Users_Guide/22570.htm
sidazhang, I myself use notion (a fork of ion3), another barebones tiling window manager, and obviously since this doesn't start any fancy desktop environment, the parallels automatic handling of resolution is not working. This is also true for copy-n-paste between guest and host. For the resolution thing, using xrandr just works. E.g.: xrandr --output default --mode 2048x1280 Sometimes I have to just launch "xrandr" a first time for the required mode to become available. I haven't yet found a fix for the (quite frustrating) copy-n-paste issue, but I also haven't really looked into that ...
I just replaced the call to xrandr to a call to "prlcc" and it does the X11 resolution right thing, and the copy'n paste to the vm works.
I know this issue is pretty old, but I just wanted to add that I had a similar issue but required a different solution. In my case (my forum post is here, with all the details), my issue was related to using the incorrect "backend" in my compton configuration file. I was using "xr_glx_hybrid", and once I switched it back to the default, "xrender", the issue seemed to go away.
