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TIL that Windows 10 has virtual desktops (like Mac and Linux have had for years). Just press +Tab and click
Desktop non the bottom row. Obviously.
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TIL +Tab shows windows only on the monitor they are on, whereas Alt+Tab shows all windows but only on the primary monitor.
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@error Virtual desktops can be useful, but does the +Tab combination still produce the rolodex-style window switching?
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@error I was excited about virtual desktops (and didn't want to bother with third party tools) but the shortcuts are just annoying. I think you have to hold win+shift+arrow just to switch desktops. Coming from my Linux desktop where I can just switch with win+n and move windows with win+shift+n it just feels useless.
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@bb36e said in Discoverable:
move windows with win+shift+n
If you're holding win+tab down, you can drag a window to the preview of a different desktop to move it to that desktop.
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@FrostCat I know, but I'd rather not take my hands off the keyboard
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@bb36e said in Discoverable:
I know, but I'd rather not take my hands off the keyboard
I found that if you invoke the context menu on a highlighted window while under the -Tab invocation, you can select windows to move to another desktop.
Not sure how to delete desktops though...
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TIL you can right click on or press the context menu key for the window previews in +Tab to get a context menu, but not for Alt+Tab.
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@error said in Discoverable:
TIL that Windows 10
TIL @error is an idiot.
(In all fairness, I may have know your an id10t previously in a different Windows 10 thread. But I've lost track)
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I think it's a great way to troll the wife ... she really hasn't figured out where her programs went yet
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I just love the readability of this…
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@bb36e said in Discoverable:
@error I was excited about virtual desktops (and didn't want to bother with third party tools) but the shortcuts are just annoying. I think you have to hold win+shift+arrow just to switch desktops. Coming from my Linux desktop where I can just switch with win+n and move windows with win+shift+n it just feels useless.
The correct way to virtual desktops on Windows is still VirtuaWin and it still works, even though it's been updated for the last time in 2012.
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@dkf said in Discoverable:
I just love the readability of this…
Not NodeBB's fault the png icons are background-nostic.
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@error You can also click the icon that's there unless you hide it:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Discoverable:
@dkf said in Discoverable:
I just love the readability of this…
Not NodeBB's fault the png icons are background-nostic.
Also not NodeBB's fault that <kbd>'s styles are overridden by his browser.
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@ben_lubar Huh, you're right. But I see that too, in Chrome and Edge both:
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@coldandtired said in Discoverable:
@error You can also click the icon that's there unless you hide it:
Is that the icon that uninstalls Windows and installs an Android OS instead?
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Eh. A shortcut exists to move to next and previous workspaces, there's Win + Tab to find a window on any workspace, it's workable from that standpoint. But, as I mentioned somewhere before, what kills it for me is not having shortcuts to move windows around using just the keyboard.
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@Luhmann sure, give me a good one on Windows!
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@Lorne-Kates said in Discoverable:
Is that the icon that uninstalls Windows and installs an Android OS instead?
No, that would be this one
http://comps.canstockphoto.com/can-stock-photo_csp19134406.jpg
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@Onyx
You're on Windows ? Yeah, that's different.
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@ben_lubar said in Discoverable:
@Yamikuronue said in Discoverable:
dark theme thing
But @dkf's screenshot had a white background
I'm using the Lumen skin; it's a bit darker than the default for the controls, but is still a majority light skin.
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@Onyx www.jpsoft.com -- they have a paid version and a free version. I use the free version.
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@bb36e said in Discoverable:
@error I was excited about virtual desktops (and didn't want to bother with third party tools) but the shortcuts are just annoying. I think you have to hold win+shift+arrow just to switch desktops. Coming from my Linux desktop where I can just switch with win+n and move windows with win+shift+n it just feels useless.
I'm used to ctrl-alt-n and ctrl-alt-left/right. I ended up biting the bullet and "fixing" it with autohotkey. Not perfect (AHK craps out at seemingly random times, from which I've learned that ctrl-alt-n with n = 1,2,3 changes the size of the icons on the desktop, and by that rearranges them into some useless mess), but workable.
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The real reason I was even looking into virtual desktops, was I was using the (confusingly named) Virtual Desktop application.
Virtual Desktop does not provide virtual desktops. Rather, it projects your actual desktop onto a virtual surface for e.g. the Oculus Rift. The problem being that the virtual desktop is restricted to the area of your actual desktop.
I wanted virtual desktops for my Virtual Desktop. E.g., I wanted more virtual screen real estate for my Oculus-projected virtual desktop. I have not figured out how to accomplish this goal without connecting a physical extra monitor to my computer (which I can leave turned off because I only need it so that Windows allocates additional logical screen space for Virtual Desktop to use).
Yes, this seems retarded.
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@error said in Discoverable:
Virtual Desktop does not provide virtual desktops.
That would be like the first thing I'd implement in such an application...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Discoverable:
@error said in Discoverable:
Virtual Desktop does not provide virtual desktops.
That would be like the first thing I'd implement in such an application...Very yes. I think what I need is some kind of virtual framebuffer for Windows. A driver for a monitor that doesn't actually exist.
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@error said in Discoverable:
Very yes. I think what I need is some kind of virtual framebuffer for Windows. A driver for a monitor that doesn't actually exist.
They have those, but I don't think they're signed and validated for Windows 7-and-up.
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@Tsaukpaetra StackOverflow led me to this:
http://www.overclock.net/t/384733/the-30-second-dummy-plug
Makes the computer think a monitor is attached where one is not.
Filed under:
Not sure if .
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@error said in Discoverable:
Makes the computer think a monitor is attached where one is not.
Ah, yes, the old "trick the video card to think there's a monitor there" trick.
Actually bought one of these for HDMI to see if it would let Steam In-Home Streaming work with audio, haven't tested it yet.
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@bb36e said in Discoverable:
@error I was excited about virtual desktops (and didn't want to bother with third party tools) but the shortcuts are just annoying.
Tell me about it...
Filed under: yeah, I know it's overdue for cleaning
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@Onyx said in Discoverable:
@Luhmann sure, give me a good one on Windows!
Theeere ya go.
Add to it a nice console emulator like ConEmu or Cmder, spend a few minutes tweaking it to easily open both cmd.exe and PowerShell windows, and you have an experience pretty damn comparable with that on Linux.
And hell, you can even open a Git Bash console with Cmder, so there.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Discoverable:
SuperMod4
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@Lorne-Kates said in Discoverable:
Is that the icon that uninstalls Windows and installs an Android OS instead?
No, it's the one that boots Luddites in the nards.
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@sloosecannon said in Discoverable:
@Maciejasjmj said in Discoverable:
Cmder
QFT
I like ConEmu.
Filed under: So what he already said it., Hey is quote nesting broken again?
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@Maciejasjmj said in Discoverable:
@Onyx said in Discoverable:
@Luhmann sure, give me a good one on Windows!
Theeere ya go.
Add to it a nice console emulator like ConEmu or Cmder, spend a few minutes tweaking it to easily open both cmd.exe and PowerShell windows, and you have an experience pretty damn comparable with that on Linux.
And hell, you can even open a Git Bash console with Cmder, so there.
git bash has most of them already
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@FrostCat said in Discoverable:
@Maciejasjmj said in Discoverable:
Tell me about it...
Here's a
, kid, buy a 20th-century keyboard.I'm pretty sure that is a 20th century keyboard. I don't think they were making computer keyboards in the 19th century before computers were invented, and that's definitely not a 21st century keyboard.
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@error said in Discoverable:
Virtual Desktop does not provide virtual desktops. Rather, it projects your actual desktop onto a virtual surface for e.g. the Oculus Rift. The problem being that the virtual desktop is restricted to the area of your actual desktop.
Huh .. I was looking for something like that when I had the first Oculus Dev Kit to play around with. Interesting.
Re: virtual monitor. Have you tried this? Haven't tried it on Win10, but this used to work with XP or 7. Otherwise, the VGA connector trick works, and you can do something similar with DVI connectors' analogue pins.
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@ben_lubar said in Discoverable:
I don't think they were making computer keyboards in the 19th century before computers were invented
Typewriters?
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@ben_lubar said in Discoverable:
I'm pretty sure that is a 20th century keyboard.
Aww, Ben, did you steal Blakey's shoulder aliens?
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@FrostCat said in Discoverable:
@ben_lubar said in Discoverable:
I'm pretty sure that is a 20th century keyboard.
Aww, Ben, did you steal Blakey's shoulder aliens?
The shooting aliens thread is
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Filed under: Xenophobia
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@aliceif said in Discoverable:
@ben_lubar said in Discoverable:
I don't think they were making computer keyboards in the 19th century before computers were invented
Typewriters?
Except that typewriters (at least the older mechanical ones) don't compute anything.
Keyboards have been around for centuries, though.
(And they didn't compute anything either.)
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