Need Virtual Desktop software recommendations

[dhuser]

I use and suggest Dexport. Its' great and free for personal use.

dhuser

[MerleOne]

Thanks to GiveAwayOfTheDay, I am using AltDesk from www.astonshell.com.  Works quite fine, no major bug encountered so far.

[Curt]

Carol recommended DM2 to me before but I couldnt even find a helpfile for it (it could be me !?)

-tomos (September 06, 2006, 12:27 PM)

The "help files" in DM2 are called Overview, Settings + Support > Installation
- and are online only: http://dm2.sourceforge.net/overview.html
http://dm2.sourceforge.net/settings.html
http://dm2.sourceforge.net/install.html

[tomos]

thankls for that Curt 

EDIT:- "thankles" sounds good, but i mean thanks!
(they're now saved to surfulator)

[MKairys]

I'd like to take the opportunity to rave about a little-known virtual desktop program, Enable Virtual Desktop. It's not free, but it's only $20, and it has better features and usability than any other I've seen. It supports dual monitors, wallpapers, keyboard bindings, wallpapers, systray icons or not, and a "mini-window" of all your desks in which you can move windows from desk to desk. I really love it.

[kartal]

Can any of virtual desktops save opened apps as a session to be restored later?

[MKairys]

Not EVD, no... It does however have "window rules" by which you can specify which virtual desk an application opens up in, etc.

[kartal]

Thanks MKairys, but that would not be what I need.

[steeladept]

Wow, I have been looking for this for quite some time.  I have looked at Dexpot many times as that is the closest to what I am looking for that most people recommend, yet (and I can't say exactly why), it never seems to work out for me.  I have tried most that were talked about here, but the two pay ones mentioned, EVD and GoScreen are new to me.  I must check them out now

What I am looking for is like Mouser said - what is in Linux (though my experience is from much later that the cli mouser spoke of).  Gnome desktop has an extrodinary virtual desktop.  I am looking for the same experience.  GoScreen and EVD appear to offer that.  Thans for bringing this up again...

[Curt]

I haven't tried it, so I cannot recommend it, but it looks like fun, and it is freeware. I have no idea if it also is useful, but I guess it is supposed to be just that: 360desktop public beta from http://www.360desktop.com/


 Need Virtual Desktop software recommendations

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[PhilB66]

I haven't tried it, so I cannot recommend it, but it looks like fun, and it is freeware. I have no idea if it also is useful, but I guess it is supposed to be just that: 360desktop public beta from http://www.360desktop.com/

-Curt (July 22, 2008, 02:06 PM)

A few DC'ers were not impressed with 360desktop. See https://www.donation....msg120174#msg120174

[Curt]

- I am a little surprised to read how harsh they spoke about 360desktop. I mean, one would think a coder's forum would give a first public beta version a longer line, but they said they tested for less than a minute! I didn't download it myself yesterday, because I couldn't see the point in the very concept, but now I will have to, I must, test and see if it really performs that bad... 

[Curt]

- I didn't make it very far, though. At the very beginning of installation, before any window had yet appeared, my Firewall (Outpost Pro) asked if I would allow the installation to change my registry! I clicked No, and aborted the procedure. How can it write to registry before asking IF or WHERE I would like to install? Now I understand why some were speaking harshly of this: they were offended, like I am! I won't try it out, either, but of course I too am then unable to speak about it's performance...

[f0dder]

Curt: looks like it's part of the WISE installation system - and my guess is that it writes to the "Run" key, in order to be able to clean up temporary files after a windows reboot. Perhaps not the smartest way of handling things, but the company to blame would be the WISE guys (huhu), not the 360desktop people.

That's my guess, anyway.

[VideoInPicture]

I just tried 360desktop out and there is nothing wrong with it except that it doesn't move my windows like it's supposed to.