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- such special treatment.
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- they quit. By practice, you will come to know which applications need
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- option to handle this sort by bringing their windows back into view before
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- manage your desktop. Virtual Desktop provides an application preference
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- behavior, actually helpful, except when you are using Virtual Desktop to
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- choose a default on-screen location. This is quite understandable
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- window locations as off-screen, so the next time they start up, they may
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- If you shut down in another way, some applications may record their
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- any other application.
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- makes sure that Virtual Desktop gets a chance to clean up and quit before
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- good practice to use this Special menu rather than Finder’s, because it
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- commands, like those in Finder. If you use Virtual Desktop regularly, it’s
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- Virtual Desktop has a Special menu which contains Restart and Shut Down
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- xHow to Shut Down Using Virtual Desktop
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- than life without.
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- Despite these glitches, though, life with Virtual Desktop is arguably better
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- scrolling.
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- applications seem to respond better to door jumps than to manual
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- scrolling, because they think they know which parts are exposed. These
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- them to redraw parts of their windows which have been exposed by
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- Third, some applications don’t listen to the operating system when it tells
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- Desktop, however.
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- sometimes. QuickTime movie players seem to get along fine with Virtual
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- frames without the contents. Even HyperCard has a little trouble
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- directly. Their windows will come apart when Virtual Desktop scrolls the
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- frame-grabbing video expansion card which addresses screen memory
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- model to draw on your monitors. An example would be any
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- Second, some applications don’t use the Macintosh’s QuickDraw graphics
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- isn’t such a monitor.
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- which monitor has the greatest color depth, and may get confused if there
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- monitor their windows intersect, because they typically need to know
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- which use a “device loop” to compute the right drawing effects for each
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- off-screen. This is especially true of well-programmed applications
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- First, some applications may not work right if their windows are
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- aware of the symptoms of trouble.
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- behavior with no problems. There are others, though, and you should be
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- The great majority of applications tolerate Virtual Desktop’s scrolling
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- xSensitive Applications
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- Maybe.
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- See the section entitled “Suggestions for Use” for more information on
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- before opening the target item.
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- which automatically tells Virtual Desktop to scroll to this location just
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- to use an alias file converted by Maybe, another AWOL Utilities program,
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- always find the icon you want through those windows.) The best way is
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- for Finder so that Finder’s windows are exempt from scrolling, you can
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- placed there for the purpose. (If you have set the application preferences
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- application using the Apple menu or some desktop icon which you have
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- move to the location by clicking on a door icon window, then to open the
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- that location is, so you have to help it somehow. One way would be to
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- commonly used application. However, the application doesn’t know what
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- You will probably want to dedicate an area of the virtual desktop to some
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- normally put their windows where you can see them.
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- are on the virtual desktop. In a way, this is good, because they will
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- actual desktop. Therefore, applications are never aware of where you
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- Virtual Desktop works by moving windows and icons, not by enlarging the
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- xRoutine Maintenance
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- information about door files.
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- See the section entitled “The Door Preferences Dialog” for more
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- application and scroll the virtual desktop to a preset position when opened.
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- way is to use door files, Virtual Desktop documents that open the
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- it up by putting it (or an alias to it) in your Startup Items folder. Another
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- Ordinarily, once you are comfortable with Virtual Desktop, you will start
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- application need only be open when you want to do some scrolling.
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- Because the extension implements the illusion of a virtual desktop, the
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- remain out of view. You must reopen Virtual Desktop to access them.
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- you to the “home” position, and that the items you moved off the desktop
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- scroll bars, then quit, you will notice that Virtual Desktop has returned
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- some icons off the desktop view using Full View mode, scroll with the
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- very small virtual desktop, and nothing off the monitors. If you move
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- The first time you start up Virtual Desktop, you will be working with a
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- xHow to Start Up Virtual Desktop
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- persuade Finder not to round up the “lost sheep.”
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- windows and icons around on the desktop. Part of that trick is to
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- “real” desktop area using extra memory, but by actually moving
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- Desktop manages the virtual desktop. It works not by enlarging the
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- off-screen locations after the next restart.) This shows how Virtual
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- into view. (If you do not reposition them, they will return to their
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- startup, Finder will bring any desktop icons positioned off-screen back
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- If you remove the extension, or disable it by pressing the Shift key at
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- your Macintosh in order to use the application.
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- application, you will be prompted to replace it. You must then restart
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- If the extension was loaded, but is not the same version as the
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- application to operate.
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- quit, because the extension must be loaded at startup in order for the
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- already there. If you agree, the application will suggest a restart, then
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- it will ask for permission to install it in your Extensions folder, if it isn’t
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- Virtual Desktop Extension system extension was loaded at startup. If not,
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- When you open the Virtual Desktop application, it will check to see if the
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- positions are recorded correctly.
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- desktop is larger than your monitors, and to ensure that off-screen icon
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- Virtual Desktop requires a system extension to persuade Finder that the
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- xVirtual Desktop Extension
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- åHow Does Virtual Desktop Work?
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