Switching Desktops

Date: Oct 20, 2005

Switching Desktops

Date: Oct 20, 2005

Second, it would also be nice if one could assign hotkeys to move the current active application to an other Desktop. Eg if I press Alt+F2 then move the current active app to Desktop 2.

R2D2 · R2d2 Software

Thank you for your suggestions; for both of them, you can already use a workaround if you downloaded VDT 2.61.

Concerning the switch icon in the system tray, you can use the desktops bar, that reduces the icons needed in the system tray.

Concerning the hotkey to move a window, you can right-click the VDT pin in the window's caption and use the "Add to desktop" option.

porterr · Veteran Member

"Concerning the hotkey to move a window, you can right-click the VDT pin in the window's caption and use the "Add to desktop" option."

Unfortunately, certain poorly-bahaved applications add their own buttons in the same area as VDT's pin, making this sort of move difficult sometimes. You did a brilliant job of adding "make this window sticky" to the control menu. Could you do the same with the "add this window to another desktop" entry?

Regards,

Ross

R2D2 · R2d2 Software

This suggestion is now in my ToDo list

I you want to definitively hide the pin from a class of windows, you must edit the registry.

Run the registry editor, go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\R2d2KernelAuthority\Parameters key, create a REG_MULTI_SZ value called _DynamicStickyExcludedByProgram. Edit the value and add the *\MyProgram.exe line (where MyProgram.exe is the program you want to exclude). You can look at the DynamicStickyExcludedByProgram as template.

R2D2 · R2d2 Software

This is an answer to all requests made in this thread. Please download an install first the latest version http://www.r2d2-software.com/VDT/VDTSetup.EXE

<<It would be nice to switch to the next desktop by simply clicking once on the VDT icon in the system tray>>
You know that you can add icons in the notification area and link a command to them using the VDT options dialog; I added two new commands: switch to previous desktop and switch to next desktop. Let me know if you need more help.

<<Second, it would also be nice if one could assign hotkeys to move the current active application to an other Desktop. Eg if I press Alt+F2 then move the current active app to Desktop 2.>>
I didn't add hot keys, but I added more options to windows' system menu. Right-click a window's caption, and you can easilly add it to a desktop.

<<Ross suggestion>>
See above