Screenshots:
These screenshots are taken from
version 2.52.60.
Configuation interface:
Here are some screenshots from the Flash
Desktops configuration interface (not visible during normal use). You shouldn't
be worried by the apparent complexity: actually you can already begin to use it
with the default settings.
From the page shown above you can
perform some immediate actions and/or set up some global
settings.
Most of the hotkeys available
during normal use can be set here. Setting hotkeys is not compulsory (most of
the things can be done with the mouse) but it's very handy! Please forgive
me for the Italian writings in the hotkeys (Nessuno = None). They depend upon
the language of Microsoft Windows under which the program is running: in your
computer the writings will be in your language.
This is the Flash Desktops
database: you can see all the windows present in the system and send instant
commands to them. As you can see there are many more windows than one can
imagine! Most of them are not visible. There are features which allow you to
quickly find the window you are interested in from the hundreds.
When some windows refuse to
respond and appear hanged FD writes them here. You can ping them, or accept
their current state as good, or in the worst cases terminate
them.
Here you have control panels for
customizing the Real Multirouting (very unique feature of FD2, but too
complicated to be explained here), defining sticky windows, and defining the
programs for which you want to use the moveaway alternative desktopping
technique (Internet Explorer 5 at least :).
Just to give you an idea of the
power of the window rules in FD2. This is the filtering part. Setting up a
rule doesn't require much effort because you can fetch the data for all the
above half of the options directly from the window you are seeking: see the
hotkey on the right.
This is the action part of the
rules. You can do most things you can imagine for a Virtual Desktop
Manager. And if the action part is not enough for you, you can send a
notification to a program of yours and do your custom actions from there.
(Notifications and remote controlling of FD2 is possible with easy Windows
messages: C Header file included)
Tray Icons:
The configuration interface in the
screenshots above is not visible during normal use. What you normally use is
hotkeys and the tray icons, which are sensible to both left and right
mousebuttons.
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Here is a
screenshot of the FD tray icons: Desktop 1 is the active one.
You can change desktop with left
mousebutton. |
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Here you can see the
feedback during window routing: the user is moving the active window (was
present in current Desktop which is #1) to Desktop 2. |
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Here is a multiple routing:
active window is being moved to desktops 2 and 4. This is the display just
before the user releases the right mouse button. The user can toggle the
presence of the window in a desktop by clicking with left mousebutton while
holding right mousebutton down. |
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4 desktops is the default
setting, but you can have any number of desktops in the range 2 -
8 |
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