Seamless feature suggestion

euclidsbrother · Post by **euclidsbrother** » 1. Jan 2009, 19:54

I LOVE the seamless mode. Having windows apps running on my ubuntu desktop is really nice..

I have only one thought to make it even better. In the settings of the virtual machine, allow the selection of a color key, and when in seamless mode, put a single pixel border around the window from that VM. For anyone that doesn't want that, can select "No border".

The purpose of this is:
When runing multiple VM's in seamless mode, the color coded border will let you know which VM the window belongs to. This will also help distinguish guest apps from host apps if they are both the same OS.

I think this would be a great addition to an already great application.

Any thoughts?

-EB

Technologov · Post by **Technologov** » 2. Jan 2009, 17:04

I think this idea is taken from VMware Workstation 6.5

euclidsbrother · Post by **euclidsbrother** » 2. Jan 2009, 18:09

really?.. i've never used the workstation version of vmware. This was just an idea i had after seeing how the seamless mode worked..

Post by **stephanecharette** » 7. Jan 2009, 22:42

If you have multiple Windows VMs, can't you change the theme in Windows to be different? That way the applications will be themed differently?

Stéphane

lonestaritaly · Post by **lonestaritaly** » 13. Jan 2009, 03:00

Hello,

What would be really great for seamless mode is true integration of guest windows with host's window manager, with guest windows going into host's task bar and *without* the ugly windows taskbar being imported into the host desktop.

Entity · Post by **Entity** » 13. Jan 2009, 11:04

lonestaritaly wrote:Hello,

What would be really great for seamless mode is true integration of guest windows with host's window manager, with guest windows going into host's task bar and *without* the ugly windows taskbar being imported into the host desktop.

+1 on that!

euclidsbrother · Post by **euclidsbrother** » 15. Jan 2009, 19:27

stephanecharette wrote:If you have multiple Windows VMs, can't you change the theme in Windows to be different? That way the applications will be themed differently?

Stéphane

Good idea.. hadn't thought of that.. I'll give it a try and see how it works.. Thanks..

euclidsbrother · Post by **euclidsbrother** » 15. Jan 2009, 19:29

lonestaritaly wrote:Hello,

What would be really great for seamless mode is true integration of guest windows with host's window manager, with guest windows going into host's task bar and *without* the ugly windows taskbar being imported into the host desktop.

That's a nice idea too, but it will also need to add some kind of app menu launcher thingy majig to the task bar, so you can launch your programs or get to your windows deskop if needed..

i like it..

mabra · Post by **mabra** » 23. Aug 2016, 19:51

Hi All !

Ok, the main entries here are from?? 2009 !!!!
Is there really that bad thinking about users wishes ?

It would be a big thing for me too, especially, sometimes I am working
with several VMs at the same time !

Cheers,
Manfred

Post by **socratis** » 23. Aug 2016, 20:07

mabra wrote:Is there really that bad thinking about users wishes ?

No, not at all. It simply doesn't pay the bills

Which means are lower priority compared to customers' wishes.

virtualbox.org

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