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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
| Subject | Re: Virtual Desktop? |
| Date | 2024-12-30 05:33 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vktsu5$1jdif$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <vkrgs1$uvra$1@dont-email.me> <vkrirv$10920$1@dont-email.me> <vktlcs$1i26p$8@dont-email.me> |
On Mon, 12/30/2024 3:25 AM, Chris wrote:
> Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:
>> T wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Can I do a "Virtual Desktop" in Window? Or is that
>>> only a Wine/Linux thing?
>>>
>>> A "Virtual Desktop" opens a windows of a specific size and the
>>> programs that run in it think they are running at the resolution
>>> of the window.
>>>
>>> This gets around programs like Lotus Approach that weird out
>>> on high resolution screens. (Approach is only stable up to
>>> 1920x1440. My screen is 4096x2160.)
>>
>> Isn't the whole point of the Windows operating system that the user can
>> control the size of any window used by a program? Does Lotus Approach
>> disable this facility? (I've never used it.)
>>
>> I have a suggestion.
>>
>> Get a second PC which will run the "Professional" version of your chosen
>> MS Windows OS.
>
> Cheaper option would be to get a second, lower resolution, monitor and pin
> the app to that screen.
>
Or put it on a second computer and use PIP (Picture in Picture).
The only advantage of PIP, is you don't need to put a small
monitor to one side of your big monitor with PIP. And PIP
would only be visible if you turned it on. You would still
need two keyboards and two mice, to drive two machines via PIP.
Some big monitors support PIP or they support PBP.
In fact, if a monitor has a high enough resolution,
it's actually running in PBP permanently (two DP
connectors, one drives one half of the screen,
the second drives the other half of the screen).
Comp#1 DP comp#2 DP Comp#1 DP Comp#1 DP or comp#2 DP
| | | |
+------v-----+-----v-----+ +-----v------+-----v-----+
| | PIP | | | | 5K monitor
| | | | | | (Screen too big/fast/deep
| +-----------+ | | | for drive off one DP)
| | | | |
| | | | |
+------------------------+ +------------------------+
4K or 5K monitor Picture-By-Picture PBP
But in a Google, the Lotus just leaves the impression it was
designed in 1990 or something :-) It would be like someone
becoming attached to Netscape Communicator and continuing
to run it. No amount of feeding it or watering it, is
going to make it behave (based on the "flickering" comments).
It's probably not even compositing-compatible. It could
be doing redraws on every expose event (which is how software
used to be written). Firefox for example, can refresh the screen
60 times a second, but because that is through compositing layers,
there is no flicker and the user is not aware of how the
implementation works.
Paul
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