Desktop Slider

[Midas]

IMHO, an option to constrain the virtual desktop to an arbitrary screen resolution -- 1600x1200, for instance, allowing applications to maximize to that dimension instead of the viewport -- would make it an even more useful interface enhancement...

[webfork]

Restested on an other machine,‭ ‬also XP SP3‭ ‬-‭ ‬not sure what the initial problem was but it worked fine.‭ ‬I did notice on a two‭ ‬-monior setup that there was a little refresh when moving windows,‭ ‬but otherwise it worked flawlessly.‭ ‬Not sure what was up with the other machine.‭

Window refresh does seem a‭ ‬little‭ ‬blocky for vertical rather than the default horizontal scan.‭ ‬This may have been my several-years-old Intel onboard graphics card.

Revised wishlist:

• I think I touched on this before, but I‭’‬d like to see an overview‭ (‬or zoom out‭) ‬feature of some kind. Right now, if you can‭’‬t find a particular window you don‭’‬t have just two options:
  
  • Return all windows to the main one
  • Keep looking

In any case, it's still a great program and there's nothing quite like it. Glad to have it here on the site.

[Midas]

[Old thread update] For the proverbial record, two other similar freewares (portability untested!):

• Infinite Screen
  -- http://ynea.futureware.at/cgi-bin/infinite_screen.pl

• NBWinScroll
  -- http://kjh.ca/contour_mods/doku.php?id= ... n_1024x600

[webfork]

Infinite Screen, NBWinScroll

Thanks -- both are very cool. NBWinScroll seems better suited for it's stated objective: to make it possible for the Netbook crowd to work with larger, vertical windows. In any case, I never thought that the infinite screen thing would be useful for working with programs where the developers assumed everyone has a 1600x1200 monitor like they do.

Wishlist:

• A screen preview system so you can essentially "zoom out" and see where everything is located and jump to a different area quickly. I can't see this really boosting my productivity without it. Anyway, maybe I'll put a feature bounty on it or something.

[NickR]

Website has gone

I have the v1.03 zip from Jan 2012

[Midas]

I have the v1.03 zip from Jan 2012

• Would you be so kind as to mirror it somewhere? Thanks.
  
  BTW, NBWinScroll seems to have departed the Web, too.
  
  Infinite Screen is at v1.63 (changelog at http://ynea.futureware.at/cgi-bin/infinite_screen.pl).
  
  A related debate happened a while ago at SuperUser.com -- see https://superuser.com/questions/85362/.

[smaragdus]

Desktop Slider version 1.03 can be downloaded from:

Softpedia
Internet Archive

All saved website versions at the Internet Archive.