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From: de5@STC06.CTD.ORNL.GOV (SILL D E)
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Subject: Re: X marks the suit
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Date: 8 Aug 90 18:14:36 GMT
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In article <9008081302.AA12614@hendrix.odi.com> bob@odi.COM writes:
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>Come to think of it, since the early 80's MacPaint has had a 'Show Page'
>command which showed the entire page and allowed you to move a rectangle
>representing the visible region around on the page.  This is identical to
>the virtual desktop which swm has.  Perhaps Apple/Claris should sue Solbourne?

It's not the actual `virtual desktop' that's unique in Solbourne's
implementation, or even the way you can move the viewport around to
select the visible region, it's the way you can move windows into, out
of, and around in the virtual desktop with the little scale-model of
it.  Has anyone done *that* before Solbourne?  Does/did vtwm have that
feature? 

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