On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:12:25PM -0500, Gilbert E. Detillieux wrote:
I've updated the meeting write-up online to include the slides of my talk and bookmarks for the various utilities I described...
Excellent, thanks. I'll have a look.
I have to use MS-everything for work, but do use putty, Cygwin and VNC for at least accessing remote Linux systems or the Cygwin shell utilities where I can.
We're pretty much on the same page, then. I also mentioned a virtual desktop utility called "Virtual Dimension", the "True X-Mouse Gizmo for Windows", and several handy extensions for Thunderbird (a couple of which work in Firefox too), which I've found useful to add.
I have tried a few Windows shell replacements, such as ports of blackbox and other window managers too. The main catch is that there is usually some program or other which behaves badly under the new setup.
I do use virtuawin, which is located at http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/. It's a native Windows app, and basically changes little except for having multiple virtual desktops. I'll probably look at Virtual Dimension as well, but virtuawin is small, light and pretty much everything works OK.
Tim