{"id":3126,"date":"2006-08-07T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:33:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:33:26","slug":"virtual-desktops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/08\/07\/virtual-desktops\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Desktops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was another SteveNote day, when Steve Jobs comes out on stage and shows off the upcoming toys.  While I didn&#8217;t pull out my wallet today, the previews of the next version of the Mac operating system had a welcome addition &#8212; virtual desktops.  I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/desktopmanager.berlios.de\/\">Desktop Manager<\/a>, a third-party solution, for some time now, and I can&#8217;t live without it, even though it is self-described as &#8216;alpha quality&#8217;. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/Desktop1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/Desktop1.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>Using virtual desktops allows me to lay out my work on a huge pallet, and switch from one section to another with a click on the little pager I have shrunk down to micro size in the lower left corner of my desktop.  As you can see, I have configured ten pages of my my laptop&#8217;s screen, and over time I have settled into a comfortable working arrangement.  Desktop 1 is my writing outline and notes.  I also keep my wordcount tracker there.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/Desktop2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/Desktop2.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>On desktop 2 I have Word running, taking up the whole screen and the text zoomed out for comfortable reading.  On other pages I have my Mail, my web browser, my personal organizer, iTunes, etc.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/Desktop7.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/Desktop7.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s especially nice for applications that really want the whole screen to work properly, like Google Earth.  With ten screens, most of the time I can have all my tools and features available just a well-remembered click away.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used virtual desktops of one kind or another since I first discovered them under X on unix workstations.  Seeing them come as a supported part of the Mac environment is welcome.  While Desktop Manager works great, it hasn&#8217;t been updated in a long long time, and I worry that it won&#8217;t be available when I move to my next computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was another SteveNote day, when Steve Jobs comes out on stage and shows off the upcoming toys. While I didn&#8217;t pull out my wallet today, the previews of the next version of the Mac operating system had a welcome addition &#8212; virtual desktops. I&#8217;ve been using Desktop Manager, a third-party solution, for some time&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/08\/07\/virtual-desktops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virtual Desktops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[222,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Oq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}