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Article #585VirtSpace (mini -review)
From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:12
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:12
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This is one neat App. Do you have 12 Stuart windows open on 5 different hosts? Does it take a minute to find the lastest Edit window you were working on? Do you often have FrameMaker, Diagram, and Adobe Illustrator all running with a hoard of windows each.If you are the sort of person who has 6 different apps open all the time, and are constantly rummaging around trying to find the window that you were working on; if you are the sort of person who wishes he had a wall instead of a monitor; if your screen looks like your desk, with only 3 square inches of grey background visible most of the time, then shell out your thirty bucks and get VirtSpace VirtSpace allows you to create a virual screen arbitrarily larger than the real screen, and spread out apps all over the place. So you can have one corner where you are working on backup scripts and testing them, another corner where your default file viewer and mail box lives, another corner where you are compiling and testing xntpd, and the fourth corner where you have terminal sessions onto other hosts. The interface is fairly easy to master, however I am having to change how I organize my screen. Often clicking on an active icon makes one of that apps windows the key window, but that window isn't on the screen. This was a bit mystifying at first, but I'm adapting quickly. The authors are very responsive to suggestions, and questions about the program. In the space of half a day VirtSpace has gone from a new toy to an absolute necessity. Highly recommended.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!news From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) Subject: VirtSpace (mini -review) Message-ID: <1992Sep12.011232.15694@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: fenris.space.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:12:32 GMT Lines: 36