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- From: olender@vivaldi.cs.colostate.edu (Kurt Olender)
- Subject: Re: .xsession for OS/2
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- In-Reply-To: mgrice@athena.mit.edu's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:42:02 GMT
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:44:18 GMT
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- Matthew Grice writes:
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- If I understand you correctly, I think your problem is solved.
- Here's the deal: the workplace shell _IS_ what you are looking for.
- If you are running os/2 _2.x_ look no farther.
- When you drag an object a little past the edge of the screen, scroll bars
- appear for the entire desktop.
- You can then move the desktop around.
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- Wait. Gee. Never tried it, but I bet that that only affects desktop
- objects. Darn. I bet that windows would stay in the same place, and
- only the shredder, printer, etc., would move. Might want to try it out,
- though. I will when I get home.
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- The scroll bars work with respect to the outermost "envelope" of the
- workplace, in other words, your screen is as big as necessary to enclose all
- of the objects on it. That can be quite big. But to use it as the
- original writer wanted, you'd have to place "something" out at the far
- corners.
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