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- From: akm@atlantix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: Where to get "Virtual Screen for Win-3.1?"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.221432.22369@cs.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 22:14:32 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.1993Jan3.221432.22369
- References: <1993Jan2.164435.25780@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan3.181921.10809@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.
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- Some of the virtual screen/desktop managers available at cica are
- bigdesk and its associated backmenu. Bigdesk is the virtual desktop
- manager, which gives you multiple screens, and backmenu is a menu that
- works when you click on the desktop.
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- Included with the windows resource kit (wrk), is topdesk, which is
- what I use. It can be configured to remember which application is run
- in which window, so it forms a neat menuing system. A problem with
- topdesk is that you can't get it to forget only one application window
- location that it has remembered, so you have to delete all the ghosts
- that it remembers. (Or perhaps I don't quite know how to work it yet.)
-
- I'd recommend topdesk, having used both it and bigdesk. I have a
- topdesk strip running across the top of my screen, so that it sits
- where the title bar of the application would come in full screen mode.
- I can get by without seeing the title bar. It therefore doesn't take
- up any additional desktop space for me, and it gives me access to 15
- virtual screens.
-
- One thing I can't remember is what the name of the WRK file is. Anyone?
-
- cheers,
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- kartik
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- Anant Kartik Mithal, akm@cs.uoregon.edu
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