I set the option to automatically hide the menu when in full screen, and now when I try to get to the menu I can't. I move the mouse to the top of the screen, and the menu does not unhide. I am going to try uninstalling and reinstalling. I looked at the config file and fiddled with the option FullScreenHideMenuBar, but didn't have any success.

Never mind, I figured it out. I must have checked the option to click to unhide the menu rather than just hover.

Hi Guys,

Actually, there is a slight bug in this area. If you are running full-screen and have the Auto-Hide Menu option enabled, then you have to nudge the top of the screen to get it to show - this is the expected behaviour.

But if you switch from full-screen to windowed and then click on the Minimise or Restore Window buttons the Menu hides itself and you can't re-activated it as there is now top of the screen to nudge.

Worse still is that short-cut key (F11) will not do anything on the local RD Tabs app as it's sent to the remote computer. If IE is the current focused app on the remote computer then it will go full-screen.

The only way out of it is to open a new empty tab - there will be now Remote Windows session to take the F11 key.

Hope I explained that one well enough.

Cheers
Mr A

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I'll see about fixing that soon.

Also, when exiting full-screen mode and you've lost your menu as its hidden, F12 to show menu doesn't do anything regardless of having a remote session showing or a new empty tab.

I found another little issue too. When right-clicking on a tab to send it to a new detached panel, you can't make that detached panel a proper boarderless full-screen like you can from the Connection->New Detached Panel menu. If you double-click the title bar or click maximise, there are a lines of grey, a few pixels high, top and bottom of the remote screen area.

If the menu bar is showing before doing the 'Send To Detached panel' then the menus aren't shown on the detached panel. I thought maybe it was the same issue as the auto-hidden menu issue, but seems not.

Cheer
Mr A

Also, when exiting full-screen mode and you've lost your menu as its hidden, F12 to show menu doesn't do anything regardless of having a remote session showing or a new empty tab.

I found another little issue too. When right-clicking on a tab to send it to a new detached panel, you can't make that detached panel a proper boarderless full-screen like you can from the Connection->New Detached Panel menu. If you double-click the title bar or click maximise, there are a lines of grey, a few pixels high, top and bottom of the remote screen area.

If the menu bar is showing before doing the 'Send To Detached panel' then the menus aren't shown on the detached panel. I thought maybe it was the same issue as the auto-hidden menu issue, but seems not.

Cheer
Mr A

Make sure the gray bars are not just the difference in height between the main window and the tab panel window. If you disconnect the remote desktop, then reconnect, the bars should disappear. If that's the case, it's just that a remote desktop's window dimensions cannot be resized dynamically while connected. (At least not up to the 2008 RDP control. It seems Windows XP Mode does just that, so it might be possible with the Windows 7 RDP control, whose feature set is not yet supported with RD Tabs.)

Hi Tim,

Yes, you're right about the grey lines, they most likely are the same think as I've seen before when reconnecting with out being full-screen, albeit thicker (about the height of the tab and menu bars) divided equally top and bottom.

Also, I'd completely forgotten about those System Shortcut keys, Alt-Gr (right Alt) etc., so the comment about F11 and F12 now working when showing a connected tab was a little misleading for the main tab panel.

The Detached panel doesn't have any shortcuts for Show/Hide Menu or Full Screen, so even with the System Shortcut keys, you have to use the menus.