2009/1/24 Michael Grosberg <grosberg.michael@xxxxxxxxx>: > things worked out without needing a workaround. Oh, by the way - > Microsoft actually do have a powertoy for WindowsXP giving you four > virtual desktops - google "Virtual Desktop Manager xp". Unfortuntaly it's awful and unuseable :( The problem (as I understand it) is that on Windows, applications are responsible for drawing their own window borders, handling minimise/unminimise, and that kind of thing. This makes it very hard for a program to quickly hide one set of windows and bring up a new set, since every application on the old desktop and the new desktop has to start up and act on an event before the switch can complete. As a result, even the basic switch-between-desktops action is slow and (depending on the apps involved) unreliable. And many applications get confused and start popping up windows on the wrong desktop, or simply don't work at all. Their new display system has much better support for manipulating windows without the app's knowledge or consent, so perhaps it would be possible to write a proper virtual desktop now. John _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
