hide status and menubars (or at least menu bar)

[DalaiDakkar]

Could it be possible to hide the menu and status bar with some shortcuts win+something when in windowed mode?

sometimes you need to have your VM windowed side to side with some other not virtualized app. and this bars get a los of space wich could be useful.

Thanks!

-a space demon using ion3 window manager on ubuntu.

[stephanecharette]

Could it be possible to hide the menu and status bar with some shortcuts win+something when in windowed mode?

I was almost certain there was a menu option to do this, but I cannot find it!

Perhaps the menu was there in older releases and somehow isn't there anymore? Anyone else remember this?

Stéphane

[DalaiDakkar]

Hi found this in another page:



Hi, I regularly don't need the menubar so I have hidden it using:

VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/Customizations noMenuBar,noStatusBar

source: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/923

For me it worked like:
VBoxManage startvm xpv setextradata global GUI noMenuBar,noStatusBar
xpv=name of my virtual machine

Works like a charm! a lot of more space!

>.< the thing now is how to access the menus (for usb device connection for example) if anyone has an answer please share.

Greetings

[andrewsharpe79]

If you have set noMenuBar,noStatusBar you should still be able to access the menu with HostKey + <HOME>.

You may need to press <DOWN> after that combination to show the menu. See http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/923

[DalaiDakkar]

If you have set noMenuBar,noStatusBar you should still be able to access the menu with HostKey + <HOME>.

I tried that with no success =(

EDIT: I found that this works indeed but only when in fullscreen mode. weird solution but works.