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I plan on hooking up a very large number of monitors to sort of 'work around' the problem of limiated screen space [...] I find that virtual desktops work for

I plan on hooking up a very large number of monitors to sort of 'work around' the problem of limiated screen space [...] I find that virtual desktops work for this, though the interface matters a lot; if there's an actual miniature representation of the virtual desktops, that helps much more than having a list of them, and it took me a while to get used to Spaces (on OS X) because it doesn't have a good miniature representation, where the virtual desktop program I was using in Panther and Tiger did.

jacquesm 17y ago
I hate that switching around effect that changes the whole screen layout just to get a look at some other screen for half a second, it is almost painful that flash of all those windows being replaced. I like stuff to have it's place and to not move unless I tell it to. I found out just how much I like that when on a lark I tried playing around with xdmx and got it to include the 'guest' machine here and a mac. It was quite amazing. No more switching desktops all the time it just became more quiet.
- randallsquared 17y ago
  "it is almost painful that flash of all those windows being replaced." I agree that it would be, except that the transitions are pretty smooth with the system I'm using, so there's no flash/blink effect. I haven't used xdmx.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    What window manager do you use on what os ? I've played around with a tiling window manager for a few weeks and I liked it but too many applications didn't like it so now I'm back to kde.
    - randallsquared 17y ago
      Right now I use Aqua and Spaces on OS X Leopard. There's an application called "Desktop Manager" that looked and worked more like I wanted, but the developer gave up on it after Spaces was integrated into Leopard, and Spaces is not unusably bad, just not as good. This video shows how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7MHup6kXbU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7MHup6kXbU I'm sure there's some VM program that works like this in the X.org world, though.
      - jacquesm 17y ago
        thank you!

jacquesm 17y ago

I hate that switching around effect that changes the whole screen layout just to get a look at some other screen for half a second, it is almost painful that flash of all those windows being replaced. I like stuff to have it's place and to not move unless I tell it to. I found out just how much I like that when on a lark I tried playing around with xdmx and got it to include the 'guest' machine here and a mac. It was quite amazing. No more switching desktops all the time it just became more quiet.

randallsquared 17y ago
"it is almost painful that flash of all those windows being replaced." I agree that it would be, except that the transitions are pretty smooth with the system I'm using, so there's no flash/blink effect. I haven't used xdmx.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  What window manager do you use on what os ? I've played around with a tiling window manager for a few weeks and I liked it but too many applications didn't like it so now I'm back to kde.
  - randallsquared 17y ago
    Right now I use Aqua and Spaces on OS X Leopard. There's an application called "Desktop Manager" that looked and worked more like I wanted, but the developer gave up on it after Spaces was integrated into Leopard, and Spaces is not unusably bad, just not as good. This video shows how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7MHup6kXbU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7MHup6kXbU I'm sure there's some VM program that works like this in the X.org world, though.
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      thank you!