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- Beginners guide using virtual desktop applications (June 20, 1993)
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- Usually you work with several windows at the same time, but often find
- that it would be nice to have a bigger screen, so you could see all
- your windows. Then you have a look in your wallet, and find no many,
- and no credit for your credit card. This is when you need a cheap
- (read: free) virtual desktop to emulate a big screen.
- My implementation is not perfect (and not the final version), but
- gives you nine screens where you can open different windows, and
- easily jump between these screens, just by pressing one of the
- buttons.
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- example:
- - start PMVDesk.
- (you see a X on the middle button, so this represents the current
- screen)
- - open a window, or a program (it opens normally)
- - press the lower left button on PMVDesk
- (your open windows seems to disappear, and you have a clean screen.
- Do not worry, your windows are still there, just press the middle
- button and you are back where you started)
- - in this new screen you may open new windows and programs
- - to quickly return back just press that button on PMVDesk that
- represents the screen where you want to go to
-
- So, this is how you use a virtual desktop.
- There are different kinds of virtual desktop applications, with fancy
- miniature windows representing your windows, and that might be my
- final goal when I continue developing my application.
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