General Settings


This chapter explains the following:

General Dialog




After you right click on the icon located on the system tray, a menu will be popped up. Selecting "configuration" menu, then the dialog is showed to allow you config Virtual Desk.

There are many options in General Dialog to allow you to customize Virtual Desk and use it more easily and quickly:

  • Each desk has own wallpaper, screensaver: It will be fun if each desktop has own background and screensaver. But This feature will decrease the switching speed. If you want a fast switching, uncheck it.
  • Use transparent desktop icon background: make desktop icon's background transparent. See the picture below.
  • Use iconized desktop: Virtual Desk will show iconized desktop image instead of a red circle on the switching window.
  • Enable Startup tip: Start a tip of the day dialog when Virtual Desk is starting. Uncheck it will disable the feature.
  • Enable animated effect when showing switching window: Smooth the popup of the switching window with an animated effect

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  • Auto adjust local time according to the time server: if you check it, Virtual Desk will look up the well-known atom time server on the internet one time per 15 minutes, and keep your computer time same with the time server. See details in the Time dialog.
  • Auto shortcuts to quick launch areas: if you check it, a few shortcuts will be added to quick launch areas, you can click on them to switching desktop. It is faster than basic switching method.

 

Shortcuts Dialog


  • Run Virtual Desk automatically whenever Windows is atrting: It will create a shortcut to Startup group and start Virtual Desk whenever windows starts.
  • Create a shortcut on the windows desktop: Create s shortcut on the desktop.
  • Create shortcuts on the Quick Launch area: It will create as many shortcuts as the desktops which you have. One shortcut is for one desktop. So it provides a simple way to switch among desktops, just clicking on the shortcuts will switch to according desktop
How to select a skin?




You can select a skin in the left list control, the picture of the skin will be showed on the right. Click OK or Apply button will apply the skin to Virtual Desk.

 

How to set hotkey?


There are three types of hotkeys:

  • hotkeys for next desktop & previous desktop: switch to next or previous desktop
  • hotkeys for switching: switch to a specific desktop
  • hotkeys for moving windows: it is a hotkey for switching among desktops. The hotkey is used to move current window from current desktop to another desktop.

To set a hotkey, just input the key into the edit control. Now we support any combination of Ctrl, Alt and Shift.

 

How to adjust computer time according to well-known atom time server on the internet?


This dialog make you select time server and check your computer time.

Click "Check" button will look up the well-known time server on the internet and compare it to your computer time. Click "Adjust" button will adjust your computer time according to the time server.

You can check "Automatically checking time server every 15 minutes" in General Dialog to allow Virtual Desk automatically check the time server and keep your computer time same as the time server. You can change the time interval.


How to set sticky window or sticky program?


This dialog allows you to set a window as sticky window or set a program as sticky program.

Sticky window is a window which will be showed on all of the desktops. To set a window as sticky window, you just need to find the window in the left list named "Unsticky Windows", selecting it, and click "------>" button to move it to "Sticky Windows" list on the right. To unset it, just selecting the window in the "Sticky Window" list and click "<------" button to move it to "Unsticky Windows" list.

Sticky window is dynamic which mean you must specify it after it is created. And such information can't be saved and will be lost when Virtual Desk is closed.  Sometimes you want to specify a program, for example Microsoft Word, as sticky. And each time a window created by running Microsoft Word program will automatically be sticky. Such information can be saved and you don't need to re-set it after the running of Virtual Desk. Such feature is called Sticky Program in Virtual Desk. To specify a program as sticky, you just clicking "Add" button and tell which program (its exe file) will be sticky. You can see the current sticky programs on the "Sticky Programs" list. To remove a program from "Sticky Programs" list, just select it and click "Remove" button.


How to register Virtual Desk?


Virtual Desk is a shareware, the trial period is 30 days. To register the shareware:

  • Go to regsoft or regnow to input your name and get registration code. "Click here to buy it" button will bring you to Virtual Desk webpage for shopping.
  • Input your name and registration code, and click OK or Apply button.
 
 
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document date: June 25, 2002