“Usable” multi-monitor support feature requestĭid Parallels listen? Well, only a little.
Parallels desktop 12 vs vmware fusion 8.5 full#
Parallels 12 changed all that, by removing the non-native full screen mode option that was working perfectly in version 11, leaving users with no satisfactory multi-monitor display mode.Ĩ pages of complaints on the official Parallels forum when Parallels 12 launched with this The combination of turning off “Displays have separate Spaces” in macOS, and disabling “native full screen mode” in Parallels was the perfect, wanted behaviour that Parallels users of multiple monitors had become accustomed to for many, many years. Most power users turn this off, especially if they are using keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+arrow keys) to switch between spaces because the monitor that would switch would be the one your mouse cursor was over.
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However, this meant that each monitor could be switched desktop independently, introducing say 4 different combinations when you had two monitors and two desktops. This meant that your left and right monitors have their own sets of virtual desktops.
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To work around the full screen issue when using multiple monitors, macOS Yosemite introduced the option for displays to have their own “Spaces”. The first was using macOS’s built in full screen function (more on that in a minute) and the other using a “non-native” method that involved drawing a windowless fullscreen window on top of the whole screen. In Parallels 11, Parallels supported two ways of rendering full screen on multiple monitors. The major downside of this was that when applications were run “Full screen” (rather than just maximised), they would go full screen on one monitor and leave the other one completely blank, which was complete madness. Switching between desktops would switch both screens. Therefore if you had a left and right monitor, switching spaces (or virtual desktops) would switch both, giving you two “Desktops”, Desktop 1 (left monitor A and right monitor A) and “Desktop 2”, (left monitor B and right monitor B). In older versions of macOS, virtual desktops spanned your whole set of monitors. How Parallels Desktop broke multiple monitors
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Parallels Desktop is no longer fit for purpose if you are an advanced user.
Parallels desktop 12 vs vmware fusion 8.5 windows#
In a post three years ago, I waxed lyrical about how much better Parallels Desktop was compared to VMWare for the very common task of running Windows on your Mac.