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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.windows.ms
- Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!ucsu!ucsu.Colorado.EDU!baileyc
- From: baileyc@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Christopher R. Bailey)
- Subject: Is there "Rooms"/HPVue manager for windows?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.035643.18693@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Summary: rooms program for windows wanted
- Keywords: rooms, hp vue, xrooms, windows
- Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: ucsu.colorado.edu
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 03:56:43 GMT
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- Is there a program for MS Windows similar to XRooms, or the window manager
- on HP Unix boxes (vuewm)? I have seen Work Shift, but am looking for something
- more elegant and less cumbersom.
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- In case you haven't heard of rooms, vuewm, or other virtual destop managers,
- basically, there is a small area with somewhere between 2-6 buttons (sometimes
- more) that are basically screens or "rooms." It's the same principle as
- WorkShift, but instead of a big window on your screen that you use to move
- from room to room and such, you just hit the button, say at the bottom of your
- screen for a certain room. XRooms lets you name the rooms, but in HP vuewm it's
- just rooms 1-6. Vuewm is the nicest I've seen, allowing for different
- backgrounds and colors, etc for each room.
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- I could care less about the fancy stuff from HPVue and just want a simple rooms
- program. I have also tried programs like BigDesk, but don't like that either.
- Speed is also somewhat of an issue, because I am not as fortunate as most of
- you with 386's, I only have a measly 286-16.
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