On Saturday 01 August 2009 12:19:28 pm John Morris wrote: > John Culleton wrote: > >I have four switchable desktops, each one measuring 1280 x 1024. > > I usually run a 640 x 480 or 800 x 600 viewport into the > > current desktop and ramble around on the larger desktop with > > the mouse. I can switch between desktops with one detent > > rotation of the mouse wheel on empty space. > > I'm sure that works very well for you, but it > is very different from my workspace. Over the > years, I have gradually worked my way up to a > larger and larger desktop and each step has been > better than the last. I currently work with > 1920x1200.* For those times when my main monitor > is not big enough, I run a second monitor that > has also grown over the years. It is currently at > 1900x1440. Running that second monitor all the > time has always felt too extravagant, so it only > comes on a few times a month. > I doubt that I fully understand what you mean > by a "800 x 600 viewport into the current > desktop," but I think I get the basic idea. I > also doubt that I would be at all happy rambling > around such a small window on the desktop. I > suspect that this would be similar to zooming in > on my current desktop and then moving around with > the mouse. I occasionally do that for fine work > or to read especially small print. I have even > considered using that as my main desktop, but > never seriously. As I said before, I like having > everything available on a large desktop.
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