Does anyone know what the purpose of the setting pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.autohide in the VMware configuration file preference.ini is?
I can't see any difference between pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.autohide = "true" and pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.autohide = "false" and I also can't find any documentation about this setting.
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This option helps to hide by default the VMware top bar in full-screen view. The purpose is to get almost all of the VMWare Player UI out of the way so you can focus entirely on the guest OS.
For auto-hiding the bar in in full-screen mode use:
pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.autohide = "TRUE"To shrink the size of the hidden toolbar, specify zero pixels. This will still keep a couple of pixels on top, so it's hardly noticeable:
pref.fullscreen.toolbarpixels = "0"To fully get rid of the bar use:
pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.nobar = "TRUE"To further hide all the hints that VMWare Player likes to keep popping up, use:
hints.hideAll = "true"
pref.vmplayer.exit.vmAction = "poweroff"
