Parallels (Tools) 9 & 14.04

I can create 14.04 VM with Parallels 9 (on OSX 10.9.2) just fine. However, once I install Parallels Tool, the launch and menu bars disappear. There's still some functionality, e.g. I can create a folder and click on it to open the Ubuntu equivalent of OS X Finder (clearly I don't know the former very well). But overall I'm severely limited (e.g. most application windows never appear).

I've looked through posts mentioning similar issues on earlier version of Parallels/Ubuntu/OSX, but none of the tips mentioned has worked for me. Any help here is much appreciated.

Solution 1:

I had the same problem. I was able to finally get it working (after several attempts of removing and re-installing the tools, etc.) by

1. Gain console access by Ctrl-Alt-Fn-F1 and log in

2. Fix another issue that I recommend you fix first, since you're going to be forcing a reconfiguration anyway, which deals with the screen rescaling correctly.

   See this Parallels forum thread, though for me, when I cd to /etc/X11 there was no xorg.conf at all, but there WAS one with a date appended to the filename that looked like right before I installed Parallels Tools. It looked the same as in the post, so I mv xorg.conf.[datestring] xorg.conf

3. rm -rf ~/.config
4. rm -rf ~/.compiz
5. sudo reboot This will force compiz to recreate its config, which is somehow being corrupted with the Parallels Tools install.

Yay, all better! At least for me...