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Beginners guide using virtual desktop applications (June 20, 1993)
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Usually you work with several windows at the same time, but often find
that it would be nice to have a bigger screen, so you could see all
your windows. Then you have a look in your wallet, and find no many,
and no credit for your credit card. This is when you need a cheap
(read: free) virtual desktop to emulate a big screen.
My implementation is not perfect (and not the final version), but
gives you nine screens where you can open different windows, and
easily jump between these screens, just by pressing one of the
buttons.
example:
- start PMVDesk.
(you see a X on the middle button, so this represents the current
screen)
- open a window, or a program (it opens normally)
- press the lower left button on PMVDesk
(your open windows seems to disappear, and you have a clean screen.
Do not worry, your windows are still there, just press the middle
button and you are back where you started)
- in this new screen you may open new windows and programs
- to quickly return back just press that button on PMVDesk that
represents the screen where you want to go to
So, this is how you use a virtual desktop.
There are different kinds of virtual desktop applications, with fancy
miniature windows representing your windows, and that might be my
final goal when I continue developing my application.