[Hcoop-misc] MS Windows Screen Organization

David W. Bettis dwb at hcoop.net
Fri Feb 10 18:39:49 EST 2006


rob at hcoop.net wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I recently got a secondary monitor added to my Windows machine at work. 
> I'm horribly unimpressed with how the Windows shell utilizes my two
> screens.   Really what I would like is some kind Window Manger similar to
> GNOME or KDE; with virtual terminals and such.  The closest thing to this
> that I know of in Windows is Litestep.  Its been about 4 years since I've
> used Litestep and at that time I remember it being pretty much crap as far
> as configuration went.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations either for or against Litestep, or
> any other package that I might find useful?
>   
There's a really old Powertoy that gives you virtual desktops.  I'm not 
sure how it will interact with a dual-monitor setup, but it's quite a 
useful utility.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/DeskmanPowertoySetup.exe

Regards,

--d




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