Multiple Desktops

[AdamSnow]

Hey guys...

I'm at work, and I need to have 2 monitors... but I dont have 2 monitors... I need some software that allows me to switch between 2 virual desktops I guess... Has to be free, and has to be moderatly stable if at all possible...

Anyone have any good reccomendations ?

Thanks in advance,

 

[Codewiz]

If you have an Nvidia video card then NView that is part of the newer drivers allows you to create multiple virtual desktops.

 

[AdamSnow]

Not using an nVidia card, nor am I using WinXP to use the XP Power toy...

 

[Anubis]

ultramon will do it i beleive but thats not free.

you could always install Litestep

there should be an option on the ATI cards to do it also if you have one of them

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Hey guys...

I'm at work, and I need to have 2 monitors... but I dont have 2 monitors... I need some software that allows me to switch between 2 virual desktops I guess... Has to be free, and has to be moderatly stable if at all possible...

Linux + XFree + Kahakai is free...and stable....

 

[AdamSnow]

Thanks for that...

Any Win32 competitors ?

 

[Nothinman]

Multiple desktops on Windows sucks, the few implementations I've tried all had little annoyances that really get on my nerves the more you use them. I'm a big proponent of virtual desktops, I have all my machines configured with 6 or 7 of them, but on Windows it just sucks. Maybe if you tell us what you're trying to accomplish we can come up with something that doesn't suck too bad.

 

[AdamSnow]

Okay, well here is my situation.

I am doing techncal support for an online computer company in both Canada and the USA. I wanted to have 1 screen with all my Canada related information, and 1 screen with all my USA related information. Right now I have about 15 windows open down at the bottom, plus my email, plus my customer information programs, etc. So you can imagine everything is crammed to hell down there. So I just thought it would be easiest to have it so when a Canadian customer called, I could go to monitor 1 and deal with it, and then when an American customer called I could switch to the American screen and go from there...

How would you guys deal with the situation at hand ?

 

[Nothinman]

Actually that's not a bad idea, I do a similar thing on my machines splitting things up between the 6 desktops and just hitting alt+# to get to desktop #.

 

[tkdkid]

I really liked cooldesk when I was using it. It's cheap and probably has a free trial.

http://www.shelltoys.com/virtual_desktop/index.html