The virtual desktop managers extend the desktop on several screens. They are very
convenient to study a given CAS or compare two CAS. In this section, we test the
two virtual desktop managers included in the distribution, VirtuaWin and JS Pager.
A more detailed description of these programs is given in the part Starter Guide
(sec. 4.9).
3.5.1
- Click on the button Virtuawin of the
toolbar. An error message is displayed, indicating that the configuration file of
Virtuawin could not be read and that a new one is going to be created
(it corresponds to the fact that the program is launched for the first
time).
- Click on OK to confirm the creation of the configuration file. An icon
icon appears in the right part of the taskbar
of Windows, corresponding to the creation of four virtual desktops. The
selected virtual desktop is symbolized by a red square, the other by green
squares.
- Displace the mouse downwards until under the taskbar. Assistant Rosetta
disappears, as a consequence of the passage of the cursor in the lower desktop.
Simultaneously, the icon turns into
and the cursor of the mouse reappears in top
of the screen.
- Continue to pull down the cursor toward the taskbar of the new desktop, and
click with the right button on the icon of Virtuawin in the taskbar. Select the
option Exit to quit Virtuawin. Assistant Rosetta reappears.
3.5.2
- Click on the button Jspager of the
toolbar. The
icon appears on the right of the
taskbar, and the virtual desktop monitor (a miniature window with 9 slots,
every slot symbolizing a desktop) appears on the left in top of the
screen.
If the virtual desktop monitor doesn't appear, click on the icon of JS Pager in
the taskbar and select the option Show Desktop Monitor to make it
appear.
- Click on an empty zone of the screen or the taskbar, then move the mouse
downwards until under the taskbar. As with Virtuawin, assistant Rosetta
disappears, as a consequence of the passage of the cursor in the lower desktop.
Simultaneously, the cursor of the mouse reappears in top of the screen
and the focus, in the virtual desktop monitor, switch from the first
desktop (in top on the left of the monitor) to the fourth (just below the
precedent).
- Continue to move down the cursor toward the taskbar of the new desktop,
and click with the right button on the icon of JS Pager in the taskbar.
Select the option Exit JS Pager to quit JS Pager. Assistant Rosetta
reappears.
