virtual desktops?
Oct. 29th, 2008 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellio
Dear LJ brain trust,
I'm looking for virtual-desktop software for Windows XP with the following properties:
- Supports six or more desktops. Microsoft's Virtual Desktop Manager fails here, being limited to four.
- Can switch desktops with a single click on a grid (or something similar); I'm not interested in apps that run only on hotkeys or require cycling. VirtualWin fails here, requiring me to cycle through them by repeatedly clicking on something in the task bar.
- Doesn't get confused by multiple windows from the same app being on different desktops. (I usually keep a few Firefox windows around.) Cool Desk appears to fail here; it's making my second Firefox window sticky when I don't want it to. This will probably get some more testing, as the app is otherwise decent (once you swap out the default skin).
- Doesn't interact badly with some unknown OS update that landed in the last two months (sigh). JSPager, which I've been using happily for years, is now implicated in unplanned Windows restarts. ("Implicated" is the wrong word in that it's probably not really JSPager's fault, but my attempts to debug it have all failed, including the ones involving hardware.)
- Commonly-found features that I care about: can make windows sticky on demand; can send windows from one desktop to another easily; task bar for a desktop shows only that desktop's windows.
- Nothing that would obviously bar it from being approved by a corporate IT department (unverifiable executables from Russia or Iran, for instance).
Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Date: 2008-10-31 09:14 pm (UTC)