[Gllug] Re: linux on the Desktop

[Christopher Currie]

On e: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:25:08 +0000 Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:

> [Cc:ed to the author]

He'll presumably revise his piece to take account of your comments, as he has 
with others'.

Butthe piece is the sort of thing that ordinary desktop users should have 
their attention drawn to and don't.

>
> (I don't have any comments on the pager because I use fvwm's, which is
> two-dimensional.

I tried (following a link from Chris Spackman's piece) Virtual Dimension, a 
FOSS multiple desktop utility for Windows. 

It works well, except for the purpose I got it for: maneageably to edit two 
copies at the same time of our wonderful content-management database 
(editable with IE6 only, of course).

[Since, for example, to link from one page to another you have to navigate 
away from the page you're working on, find the other page, select a 
particular tab, add an 'inpoint', save it, copy the reference and turn it 
into a URL,navigate back to the other page, click on an icon to bring up a 
link window, insert URL.. and at every operation the screen redraws, needing 
more scrolling...]

The database software occasionally brings up a pop-up window for certain 
functions, and when that happens the second and any other copies of IE are 
killed, whether I'm using Virtual Dimension or not. 

If I then want to revive a second view of the database, I have to log in again 
and re-navigate the data path.

Interestingly, that fenestracide doesn't happen with two separate IE6 windows 
running in Wine, under KDE..... It must be a specifically Windows-related 
bug.

Christopher Currie
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