number of users can access it simultaneously.

Virtual Desktop can be placed on an AppleShare file server, where any



information.

See the section entitled “The Door Preferences Dialog” for more

Finder, with the exception of one option which requires Finder.

Virtual Desktop also works on Macintoshes running At Ease instead of



changes in later versions of Finder.

Virtual Desktop may someday be replaced by one which takes account of

it warns you and lets you decide whether to continue.  This version of

system version at startup, and if it finds itself in an unfamiliar version,

Finder works.  Because of this dependency, Virtual Desktop checks the

NOTE:  To work as it does, the program needs intimate knowledge of how





information.

See the section entitled “Virtual Desktop Extension” for more

required in order for the application to operate.

then suggest that you restart your Macintosh.  This system extension is

Desktop, it will ask for permission to install its own system extension,

There is nothing special to install, but the first time you open Virtual

Any Macintosh running System 7.0 or later can use Virtual Desktop.








åWho Can Use Virtual Desktop?


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And last, it’s free.

features to do the whole job in the fewest possible clicks and keystrokes.

sophisticated user interface.  Fourth, it takes advantage of System 7

it’s free.  Second, it works on all types of monitors.  Third, it has a

Virtual Desktop has a number of advantages over these solutions.  First,



and zoom capability.

graphic display stations or expansion cards with hardware-based scroll

monitor.  The third, an increasingly lucrative business, is the sale of

extra real estate by opening up the usually black area at the edges of the

shareware program with hardware dependencies, bought the user some

shoved the mouse against the edge of the screen.  The second, a

techniques, extended the desktop by scrolling it away when the user

this problem.  The first, a commercial program using software

On the Macintosh, to date, there have been three successful solutions to



are, in a stylized form.

pattern.  A small-scale window shows the user where all the windows

Usually, these rooms are non-overlapping and arranged in a rigid grid

several “rooms” where various programs can put their windows.

off-screen buffers, they let the user’s screen view move between

Window System workstations.  Having allocated some memory for

is an adaptation of the kind of virtual window manager found on many X

Virtual Desktop, the premier virtual desktop manager for the Macintosh,





PowerBook computers, because of their small screen size.

windows productively.  This problem is especially acute for people using

in, but don’t have the “screen real estate” to handle large numbers of

modern Macintosh computers, who have plenty of RAM to run programs

Virtual Desktop is the answer to a growing problem among users of








åPurpose


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