How to turn Windows HVM into Fullscreen ?

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farty

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Oct 28, 2016, 7:13:21 PM10/28/16
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I want to use my windows HVM for watching youtube videos.

for audio support I simply assign my audio card to the windows HVM
and install the drivers into the windows HVM

but how can I scale the windows screen to fullscreen (till taskbar)
like in my fedora appvm ?

beerrr

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Oct 28, 2016, 7:29:09 PM10/28/16
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EDIT: just assigned my notebook audio card to the windows hvm and my whole system did not work anymore...
how to fix that?

Andrew David Wong

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Oct 29, 2016, 12:15:06 AM10/29/16
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Have you tried this?

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/full-screen-mode/

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Andrew David Wong

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Oct 29, 2016, 12:16:36 AM10/29/16
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On 2016-10-28 16:29, beerrr wrote:
> EDIT: just assigned my notebook audio card to the windows hvm and my whole system did not work anymore...
> how to fix that?
>

Have you tried unassigning the audio card, then rebooting the host?

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Community Manager, Qubes OS
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Simon

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Oct 29, 2016, 4:13:48 AM10/29/16
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Le 2016-10-29 06:14, Andrew David Wong a écrit :
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> On 2016-10-28 16:13, farty wrote:
>> I want to use my windows HVM for watching youtube videos.
>>
>> for audio support I simply assign my audio card to the windows HVM
>> and install the drivers into the windows HVM
>>
>> but how can I scale the windows screen to fullscreen (till taskbar)
>> like in my fedora appvm ?
>>
>
> Have you tried this?
>
> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/full-screen-mode/
>

I find it strange that this page does not mention the possibility to
simply do a right-click on the window title bar and select "Full
screen". I find it more practical to selectively (and manually, which I
think is safer) allow an AppVM to get its hand on the whole screen.

To get the window back to normal, you can use the Alt+Space keyboard
combination to display the window menu and disable the Full Screen mode,
otherwise if you do not remember this shortcut the Alt+Tab still works
(and is not catchable by the VM, as described in the linked document)
and allows you to safely escape from the full screen window.

Regards,
Simon.
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