X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: pager and virtual desktops Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:25:29 -0500 Message-ID: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B6570246A9A7@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> From: "Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]" To: "Luke Vanderfluit" Cc: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id jBKEPf21031885 Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Luke Vanderfluit on 12/19/2005 10:08 PM: >> Hi. >> >> My next question on cygwin is to do with pagers and virtual desktops. >> On my regular linux boxes, I run virtual desktops using a pager to >> switch between them. Is this possible under cygwin? > > Yes. As has been pointed out on this list, anything in software is > possible with enough time and money. And in the case of this > question, I believe the programs to do so already exist pre-compiled > for cygwin. > > Oh, you wanted more details - well, your question sounds like a > windows manager (hint: X-related) question, so you should ask on the > cygwin-xfree list, not here. Moving OT (sorry) .... You might really want to look at a pure Windows solution. MS provides a "Virtual Desktop Manager" Powertoy, e.g., at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx NoNags lists several: http://www.nonags.com/nonags/deskshell.html Though I don't know if any of them can be controlled with a pager .... - Barry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/