[RndTbl] Missed the meeting...

tim at fractaldragon.net tim at fractaldragon.net
Wed Sep 13 18:05:49 CDT 2006


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...
> 
> http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/06-07.html#sep

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


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