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Re: Virtual Desktop?

From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Virtual Desktop?
Date 2024-12-30 04:09 -0500
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On Sun, 12/29/2024 8:56 AM, T wrote:
> On 12/29/24 05:29, Graham J 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.  Connect it to your LAN.  Enable and configure the "Remote Desktop" function so you can run it "headless".  Install Lotus Approach on that PC.
>>
>> Now from your large screen PC run the Remote Desktop client and specify its window size to be whatever will work with Lotus Approach.  You can now drive Lotus Approach in this "Virtual Desktop" and have the remainder of your screen real estate available for other work.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> I just have to set any of my five Windows Virtual Machines
> to 1920x1440
> 

It's the combination of Lotus Approach and Windows 11, which is "not good".

Windows 11, you notice you can use the scroll wheel and change the scale.
Windows 11 could be asking Lotus Approach to do things for which the
graphics inside Approach are not "modern enough" to accept moment
by moment changes from 125% to 150%. Maybe Lotus could deal with a
given scale choice at install time, but won't accept scale-change
requests on the fly or something.

You might consider checking the Properties of the Lotus Approach executable,
and changing it to "winXP compatible", in order to force the graphics
subsystem in Windows 11, into some sort of subset mode where that
sort of request won't be sent to Approach. Maybe a Compatibility
choice, can alter the symptoms (notice I didn't say "fix" there,
the results will be largely random).

I'm extrapolating from here, where someone finds Approach behaves
better if the scaling is 100% or something in Windows 11. This means,
you may initially experiment, to discover a slight improvement in behavior,
and then veer off that course of action and test the Compatibility
setting of the EXE and see what changes that makes.

Lotus things apparently "flicker", so there is a serious mismatch
between what the turkeys did in there, and how the ecosystem
actually works that they live in.

https://forum.parallels.com/threads/interesting-what-will-run-on-windows-11-parallels-and-what-wont.354634/

   Paul

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Virtual Desktop? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-29 04:55 -0800
  Re: Virtual Desktop? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-12-29 13:10 +0000
    Re: Virtual Desktop? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-29 05:55 -0800
      Re: Virtual Desktop? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-29 05:58 -0800
        Re: Virtual Desktop? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-12-29 14:09 +0000
          Re: Virtual Desktop? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-29 06:27 -0800
            Re: Virtual Desktop? "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2024-12-29 10:38 -0500
              Re: Virtual Desktop? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-29 23:52 -0800
  Re: Virtual Desktop? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2024-12-29 08:22 -0500
    Re: Virtual Desktop? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-29 05:52 -0800
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        Re: Virtual Desktop? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-29 23:54 -0800
  Re: Virtual Desktop? Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2024-12-29 13:29 +0000
    Re: Virtual Desktop? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-29 05:56 -0800
      Re: Virtual Desktop? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-12-30 04:09 -0500
    Re: Virtual Desktop? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2024-12-30 08:25 +0000
      Re: Virtual Desktop? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-12-30 05:33 -0500
  Re: Virtual Desktop? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-29 23:16 -0600
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