From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Fri Jun 25 20:00:43 2010 Message-ID: <4C254267.1010105@online.no> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:57:27 +0200 From: Jo Even Skarstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100423 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] 4 switchable desktops References: <001502ab.01a19262b0aa@mail.gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <001502ab.01a19262b0aa@mail.gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joska@online.no Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On 06/25/2010 12:33 PM, Lars Schmidbauer wrote: > Hi, > just an idea, now that i have CTPCI/Radeon running: > It's possible to set a virtual screen (4x original) both in videocnf.cpx and in fvdi.sys. > So i would like to have a "switchable 4x Desktop", just like on Ubuntu Linux, where desktopmenu, > Taskbar and deskicons are present on all 4 "virtual" desktops. > Could this be possible with MiNT in any way? By dividing the virtual screen into four screens you mean? That would be tricky. However, it can easily be implemented by hiding and displaying groups of applications, where each group defines one desktop. I made something like this in 1995 (VDesk, sources are lost but it was easy to implement), and TWSM is already mentioned. Jo Even