Re: (Virtual Dimensions) Re: Possibly PuTTY, possibly something else. It's still hate.

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From: Yoz Grahame
Subject: Re: (Virtual Dimensions) Re: Possibly PuTTY, possibly something else. It's still hate.
Date: 19:21 on 24 Jan 2007
On 1/24/07, Hakim Cassimally <hakim.cassimally@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> On 24/01/07, Andrew Black - lists <andrew-lists@xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xx> wrote:
> > DO I get the feeling that virtual dimensions is worth avoiding.
>
> As per muttley's conundrum, I'm not sure whether to hate Virtual
> Dimensions or XP.  Allegedly XP now supports virtual desktops.  Yay!
> we all cry.  Windows could now have something that Linux has usably
> had for years, without having to go through the hackery that made the
> various widgets that emulated it (buggily) on WinNT.
>
> I tried EvilDesk (nice, but ultimately annoying) and a couple of other
> alternative windows managers which all sucked in various ways.
> Finally I installed Virtual Dimensions, on the basis that it more or
> less leaves the default Windows desktop the same, and therefore should
> break less.

You've tried the virtual desktops Powertoy, yes?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

-- Yoz

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