Hello,
in version 11, I would have my virtual machine open in full screen on my primary monitor, and have other Mac applications (e.g. Chrome or Mail) running on my other two monitors. I do not run the VM in Coherence and when the VM had focus, the Dock would be "covered" by the VM window. Switching to a different application, by selecting a Chrome window to my left, for example, would take focus away from the VM and my Dock would then become visible. This was a perfect situation for me since I do the majority of my work in the VM and, when it was selected, it would occupy all of my central monitor. However, if I wanted to work in a different application on that monitor (e.g. Chrome), I only needed to drag it to the center monitor, over the VM. In other words, even in Full Screen mode, the VM was like any other application.
However, directly after the update, this behavior changed. Now if I run the VM in Full Screen mode, my other monitors go black and are unusable until I leave Full Screen mode. I can get around this by going to the Mission Control in Settings and selecting the "Displays have separate Spaces" option, but when I do this, I can no longer drag other applications to cover the VM, since it is now in a different space! At the moment, I have the VM running not in Full Screen mode, but manually expanded to cover as much of the screen as I can. It is an annoying compromise since I now have the title bar of the VM window taking up space, and can only extend the window down as far as the top of the Dock. So I've lost about 1.5 inches of height on my primary monitor when using the VM.
I imagine this issue might sound a bit silly, but it has really hampered my productivity and cost me a lot of lost time trying to fix it. Can you please help me? Thank you.
Vijay
in version 11, I would have my virtual machine open in full screen on my primary monitor, and have other Mac applications (e.g. Chrome or Mail) running on my other two monitors. I do not run the VM in Coherence and when the VM had focus, the Dock would be "covered" by the VM window. Switching to a different application, by selecting a Chrome window to my left, for example, would take focus away from the VM and my Dock would then become visible. This was a perfect situation for me since I do the majority of my work in the VM and, when it was selected, it would occupy all of my central monitor. However, if I wanted to work in a different application on that monitor (e.g. Chrome), I only needed to drag it to the center monitor, over the VM. In other words, even in Full Screen mode, the VM was like any other application.
However, directly after the update, this behavior changed. Now if I run the VM in Full Screen mode, my other monitors go black and are unusable until I leave Full Screen mode. I can get around this by going to the Mission Control in Settings and selecting the "Displays have separate Spaces" option, but when I do this, I can no longer drag other applications to cover the VM, since it is now in a different space! At the moment, I have the VM running not in Full Screen mode, but manually expanded to cover as much of the screen as I can. It is an annoying compromise since I now have the title bar of the VM window taking up space, and can only extend the window down as far as the top of the Dock. So I've lost about 1.5 inches of height on my primary monitor when using the VM.
I imagine this issue might sound a bit silly, but it has really hampered my productivity and cost me a lot of lost time trying to fix it. Can you please help me? Thank you.
Vijay
