Seamless ColdFusion Builder on Linux

June 28, 2011 by Mike Henke

I recently switched to Xubuntu as mentioned in a couple recent posts. This weekend I was playing around with Turnkey Tomcat-Apache-ColdFusion and used Eclipse to connect to the virtual machine. I found CFEclipse wouldn't save the cfml file using a RSE connection unless I switched the file editor but I would lose syntax and highlighting. ColdFusion Builder and seamless Virtualbox to the rescue. Take a look at my Xubuntu screen with CFBuilder behind Thunar (File Manager).

The key is to setup a VirtualBox machine with Windows and then install Guest Additions on the vm. Next install and start ColdFusion Builder in the vm and then go into seamless mode. You can select right Ctrl-L or from the vm menu select Machine – Switch to Seamless Mode to start/end seamless mode. I did try CFBuilder with Wine on Linux but didn't have much success.

CFEclipse · ColdFusion · ColdFusion Builder · Linux · Xubuntu

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Mark Mandel Jun 28, 2011 at 5:29 PM PERMALINK

Ah nice!

I use VMWare Workstation, and have used their Unity Mode, and found it wasn't so reliable after using it for a long time, and now just go fullscreen with it instead.

How do you find seamless's reliability after a long time of use?
Mike Henke* Jun 28, 2011 at 5:51 PM PERMALINK

Hi Mark, I found out about this feature tonight so haven't had much time to use it. I did notice I wasn't able to move CFBuilder to my other monitor. Here are the short VirtualBox videos I found out about seamless mode http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBoxTV