vmware fusion 8.5 show applications menu in menu bar

Not accustomed to Macs, she panicked, of course.

She’d pressed that button and the Windows virtual machine had taken over her whole screen. The applications menus include the applications menu ( ), accessible in the Mac menu bar or with a keyboard shortcut, and the Unity applications menu ( ), accessible from the Mac Dock when the virtual machine is in Unity view.When I tweeted that last summer, my user was still on Mac OS X 10.8, which still had a dedicated full-screen button in the upper right corner of most windows.

Find a Windows Guest Application by Using the Applications Menusįor supported Windows guest operating systems, you can find and open any virtual machine application from the applications menus.

You can configure the Fusion applications menus for quick access to settings and applications. To add, remove, or reorder Windows applications in the applications menus, see Set Up the Applications Menus. To set the General Preferences for the applications menu ( ), see Set General Preferences. When you add a Windows application to the application list in the Applications Menu settings dialog box, Fusion pins the application to the top of the list in the applications menus. The Applications Menu settings apply to both the applications menu ( ) and the Unity applications menu ( ), specifically for supported Windows guests. You can also configure the Applications Menu settings.

Access the applications installed in the Windows guest.

You can perform the following operations.

Lists the Unity applications menu options.

Available for virtual machines with Windows guest operating systems that support Unity.

The Mac Dock contains a Unity applications menu icon for each Windows virtual machine that is in Unity view, allowing multiple Unity applications menus to appear in the Mac Dock at the same time. The Unity applications menu icon appears in the Mac Dock when you switch the Windows virtual machine to Unity view and disappears when you switch the Windows virtual machine out of Unity view.

Set up a keyboard shortcut for the applications menu.

Show or hide the applications menu in the Mac menu bar.

You can perform the following configurations.

Configurable from the Fusion General Preferences dialog box.

For a virtual machine with a Windows guest operating system, you can also quickly access applications listed in the applications menu.

Change the view mode and power status mode of the virtual machine.

Access the settings and snapshots of the virtual machine.

You can select a virtual machine in the list to perform the following operations.

Vmware fusion 8.5 show applications menu in menu bar