Wanted: Virtual Desktop software with multi-monitor support

Factual Questions
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I’ve been using sDesk as a virtual desktop manager on Windows XP for a long time. It has a few features I’m used to - I can configure the number of desktops (I use a 4x2 setup), and I can set my desired keys for switching (ctrl+alt+arrow). And I can tell it to stop at an edge instead of cycling through the screens.

I’ve recently come into possession of a second monitor at work. I’d like to use it, but sDesk just sees it as “one more than the main monitor”. So if I have desktop 1 on the main monitor, the second one will have desktop 2. If I switch to desktop 2, then second monitor will have desktop 3.

I’d like to be able to keep one monitor stable, and run a virtual desktop manager on the other.

I haven’t found anything that claims to support this very well.

So…dopers…anyone know how to make this happen?

Thanks

-D/a

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Check out Finestra.

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I’ll give it a whirl tomorrow at the office.
I just installed it on my home machine, and it’s got some fundamental differences from what I’m used to - it doesn’t let me control the “geometry” of the screens - my 8 screens ended up as two rows of three and one row of 2. And the “preview” doesn’t work the way sDesk and many of the classical X-Window managers do.
Of course, I didn’t mention any of that in my OP. :slight_smile:

I’ll give it a try and see how well it handles the second monitor…and then decide if it’s enough to be worth re-learning my habits.

Thanks!

Anyone else?

-D/a

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Try to use Actual Window Manger. This great tool incledes a virtual desktops tool and the best multiple monitor software - Actual Multiple Monitors.

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http://www.goscreen.info
http://www.goscreen.info/gs/howto.html#command-mng-multimon

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Perhaps the Microsoft Virtual Desktop Manager PowerToy might do what you want
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

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I found a solution :slight_smile:

Check the article “Independent Virtual Desktops on Each Display in a Multiple Monitors System”

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Sysinternals formerly independent and now part of Microsoft has a simple free one that works and is the least intrusive. Look for Desktops v1.02. I run it on a 3 monitor setup. These folks have been the masters of free system utilities for Windows for years.

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That’s the same thing you posted before. And these are your only posts…

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Sorry I didn’t reply sooner…been out of the country on vacation, happily with no internet access. But don’t panic! There’s a thread coming… :slight_smile:

I’ll check this solution out tomorrow at the office.
-D/a

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ha ha :slight_smile:

it’s because I’m a bot, and spammer, but not because a prog cool and useful =)