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Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops

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invis <invis@invis.net> wrote:
> On 06/08/2014 23:07, Jerry Peters wrote:
>> I had an addon from MS for some version of Windows that gave you 4
>> virtual desktops. That was it 4, you couldn't change the number, and
>> IIRC you switched via the taskbar or toolbar, whatever MS called it at
>> the bottom of the screen.
> 
> You're thinking of Desktops from Sysinternals, which is indeed now part
> of MS. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881

Sure sounds like it, though it would have been 4 or 5 years ago.
Haven't booted the XP partition in several years.

> 
>> My Linux machines always have at least 12 desktops, and if I need more
>> they can be added on the fly. Nice to see MS getting into the last
>> decade of the previous century..
> 
> Except that we're not comparing apples with apples.
> 
> The Desktops util for Windows creates 3 extra desktops. They're actually
> completely independent - the desktop is considered a security boundary
> in NT.

So what? From the web page:
"Desktops reliance on Windows desktop objects means that it
cannot provide some of the functionality of other virtual desktop
utilities, however. For example, Windows doesn't provide a way to move
a window from one desktop object to another, and because a separate
Explorer process must run on each desktop to provide a taskbar and
start menu, most tray applications are only visible on the first
desktop."

Not being able to move windows from one desktop to another is a big
negative, as is the lack of tray applications on 2-4, plus the
limitaion of 4 desktops.

> 
> For *nix a virtual desktop is typically a way of working in different
> places on a single "actual" desktop.
> 
> There are benefits to both approaches, and in an ideal world I'd like to
> have both simultaneously. Hopefully whatever MS are cooking up will
> finally let me have that.
> 

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Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-06 01:56 +0000
  Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-08-06 03:30 +0100
    Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-08-06 22:07 +0000
      Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-06 22:16 +0000
        Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-08-10 10:57 -0400
      Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops invis <invis@invis.net> - 2014-08-07 00:58 +0100
        Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-08-07 20:24 +0000
          Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Underactive Moth <underactivemoth@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 08:17 +0000
            Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-08-08 20:27 +0000
    Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-08-07 16:19 +0300
  Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Underactive Moth <underactivemoth@gmail.com> - 2014-08-06 14:53 +0000
    Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-08-06 21:34 +0100
      Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops invis <invis@invis.net> - 2014-08-07 01:06 +0100
        Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-10 19:59 +0000

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