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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: VirtSpace (mini -review)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.011232.15694@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:12:32 GMT
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- This is one neat App. Do you have 12 Stuart windows open
- on 5 different hosts? Does it take a minute to find the
- lastest Edit window you were working on? Do you often have
- FrameMaker, Diagram, and Adobe Illustrator all running with
- a hoard of windows each.If you are the sort of person who
- has 6 different apps open all the time, and are constantly
- rummaging around trying to find the window that you were
- working on; if you are the sort of person who wishes he had
- a wall instead of a monitor; if your screen looks like your
- desk, with only 3 square inches of grey background visible
- most of the time, then shell out your thirty bucks and get
- VirtSpace
-
- VirtSpace allows you to create a virual screen arbitrarily
- larger than the real screen, and spread out apps all over
- the place. So you can have one corner where you are
- working on backup scripts and testing them, another corner
- where your default file viewer and mail box lives, another
- corner where you are compiling and testing xntpd, and the
- fourth corner where you have terminal sessions onto other
- hosts.
-
- The interface is fairly easy to master, however I am having
- to change how I organize my screen. Often clicking on an
- active icon makes one of that apps windows the key window,
- but that window isn't on the screen. This was a bit
- mystifying at first, but I'm adapting quickly.
-
- The authors are very responsive to suggestions, and
- questions about the program.
-
- In the space of half a day VirtSpace has gone from a new
- toy to an absolute necessity.
-
- Highly recommended.
-