Disable top bar while running VMPlayer in fullscreen mode

Hi, In this post I am going to tell you how to disable the vmplayer's top bar which appears when we run the vmplayer in fullscreen mode.

For windows systems:-

All you have to do is to edit the preferences.ini file.

My user account has the name "rahul". So I had the file located at "C:\Users\Rahul\AppData\Roaming\VMware"

Open this file and add the following line to it:-

pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.nobar="TRUE"

For Linux systems:-

Find preferences at location "/home/user/.vmware/preferences"

So just type following command and add the line to that file:-

user@ubuntu32$ vi /home/user/.vmware/preferences

Add the following line to the file:-
 
pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.nobar="TRUE"

Save it and now run a vm in vmplayer in fullscreen. You will not see the top bar.

If you see an error or the bar not disappearing, then see the vmware.log file for detailed description on the error which occurred.