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Neat-o trick to make the desktop pop up *over* a window

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From: Aron Eisenpress
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 06:20
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I found this one in the April _Computer_Shopper_, among a 5-page article
of Warp hints-and-tips (not all of them accurate, though, and at least
one reflects a bug that hasn't been seen since the Beta II code!).  But
this one works:
 
You *can* make your desktop, or part of it, pop up over your active windows,
and without having to minimize them.  Just three easy steps:
 
1) Right-click on a blank part of the desktop, open Settings, go to the Window
   page, and change "Object open behavior" to "Create new window".  Close the
   Settings notebook.
 
2) Right-click again on the blank part of the desktop, this time select Open.
   You now have a second desktop in a window on the desktop.  Minimize it.
 
3) When you want the desktop in a window on whatever you're doing (say, the
   Web Explorer), just get the window list with Alt-Esc, and select the first
   Desktop entry (double-click or enter key).  Presto, you've got the desktop
   in a window over whatever you were doing!
 
Depending on your video settings, you may be able to get the whole desktop
in the desktop window.  Or you may want to maximize it before you minimize
it, to get a whole-screen desktop window.  Or you can open it with a
different view than your usual desktop...
 
Neat-o?
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 -- Aron Eisenpress, City U of NY / Computing and Information Services
    (AFECU@CUNYVM.BITNET, or AFECU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU on the Internet)
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From: Aron Eisenpress <AFECU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,bit.listserv.os2-l
Subject: Neat-o trick to make the desktop pop up *over* a window
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 01:20:47 EST
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