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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="seamlesswindows">
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| 4 | <title>Seamless Windows</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | With the <i>seamless windows</i> feature of
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| 9 | <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, you can have the windows that are displayed within
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| 10 | a virtual machine appear side by side next to the windows of your
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| 11 | host. This feature is supported for the following guest operating
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| 12 | systems, provided that the Guest Additions are installed:
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| 13 | </p>
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| 14 | <ul>
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| 15 | <li>
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| 16 | <p>
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| 17 | Windows guests.
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| 18 | </p>
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| 19 | </li>
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| 20 | <li>
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| 21 | <p>
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| 22 | Supported Linux or Oracle Solaris guests running the X Window
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| 23 | System.
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| 24 | </p>
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| 25 | </li>
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| 26 | </ul>
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| 27 | <p>
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| 28 | After seamless windows are enabled, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> suppresses the
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| 29 | display of the desktop background of your guest, allowing you to
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| 30 | run the windows of your guest operating system seamlessly next to
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| 31 | the windows of your host.
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| 32 | </p>
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| 33 | <fig id="fig-seamless-windows">
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| 34 | <title>Seamless Windows on a Host Desktop</title>
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| 35 | <xref href="images/seamless.png" format="png" platform="htmlhelp">
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| 36 | <image href="images/seamless.png" width="14cm" placement="break">
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| 37 | <alt>Seamless Windows on a Host Desktop</alt>
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| 38 | </image>
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| 39 | </xref>
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| 40 | <image platform="ohc" href="images/seamless.png" width="14cm" placement="break">
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| 41 | <alt>Seamless Windows on a Host Desktop</alt>
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| 42 | </image>
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| 43 | </fig>
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| 44 | <p>
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| 45 | To enable seamless mode, after starting the virtual machine, press
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| 46 | the <b outputclass="bold">Host key + L</b>. The Host key is
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| 47 | normally the right control key. This will enlarge the size of the
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| 48 | VM's display to the size of your host screen and mask out the
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| 49 | guest operating system's background. To disable seamless windows
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| 50 | and go back to the normal VM display, press the Host key + L
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| 51 | again.
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| 52 | </p>
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| 53 | </body>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | </topic>
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