How To: Keyboard Shortcut To Enter And Exit Full Screen Apps In OS X Lion. With Apple introducing full screen apps in Mac OS X Lion you may be wondering if there is an easier way to use the feature without dragging the mouse pointer to the top right hand of the application window you are working in.
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How To: Keyboard Shortcut To Enter And Exit Full Screen Apps In OS X Lion
With Apple introducing full screen apps in Mac OS X Lion you may be wondering if there is an easier way to use the feature without dragging the mouse pointer to the top right hand of the application window you are working in.
Well you can perform a keyboard shortcut. Simply press Command-Control-F on your keyboard, as shown below, and supported applications will be presented in full screen. Press the same combination again and the application will return to the previous windowed view.
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If you want your VMware Workstation virtual machine's display to fill the screen - so you no longer see the borders of the VMware Workstation window - click the Full Screen button on the toolbar. You can also use a keyboard shortcut - press the Ctrl-Alt-Enter keys at the same time.
To get out of full screen mode - to show your virtual machine inside a VMware Workstation window again - press the Ctrl-Alt key combination.
You can switch between virtual machines without leaving full screen mode by using a Ctrl-Alt-Fn key combination, where Fn is a function key corresponding to the virtual machine you want to see. To find out what function key to use for a particular virtual machine, check the title bar of the virtual machine while it is running in a window.
Note: VMware Workstation does not support running virtual machines in full screen mode on dual-monitor systems.