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Bug in 0.54 Beta 4 found + Problems at developer's site - Version: 0.54 Beta 4, 12/7/2007 07:22PM PST
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zunipus
Tips For Using VD - Version: 0.54 Beta 4, 11/20/2007 03:36PM PST
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zunipus
So long, farewell. This application was a *censored* to set up and truly is beta quality, which is to say it is buggy. But it has served me well, having been abandoned by the dopes over at CodeTek who used to provide the very best virtual desktop app I ever used.
Here are some tips for folks who continue to use VD. I may not get them all down here in this first note. If I come up with some more I will toss them into the replies.
1) Turn OFF using Growl for notifications. It may be that OmniGrowl in particular is the problem I ran into. But I never saw any point in using Growl with VD anyway. The bug bombs VD every time Growl tosses up just about ANY sort of message. As soon as I turned off Growl notifications, VD stopped bombing.
2) VD bombs at random anyway, but not as incessantly as with Growl notifications. I found it extremely useful to set up a keystroke to activate VD whenever I needed the thing to come back from the dead. Rather than having to go dig for it on the Dock I just hit they keystroke and back it comes. I count 1-2-3 then hit the keystroke to get to the desktop I want to use.
3) If you are trying to get a particular window to show up on a different desktop (Command-Option-O) and VD is failing to do the job: Quit VD, restart it again and it will work correctly. This bug shows up a period of time after VD has started.
4) How to reset VD. (I grabbed this tip from elsewhere so forgive me if you've read it before). You want to Quit VD then trash the following:
~/Library/Preferences/info.virtuedesktops.VirtueDesktops.plist
~Library/Caches/VirtueDesktops
~/Library/Application Support/VirtueDesktops
If folks have other useful tips to make this betaware a bit easier to use, please add to the list via replies.
:-Derek
Here are some tips for folks who continue to use VD. I may not get them all down here in this first note. If I come up with some more I will toss them into the replies.
1) Turn OFF using Growl for notifications. It may be that OmniGrowl in particular is the problem I ran into. But I never saw any point in using Growl with VD anyway. The bug bombs VD every time Growl tosses up just about ANY sort of message. As soon as I turned off Growl notifications, VD stopped bombing.
2) VD bombs at random anyway, but not as incessantly as with Growl notifications. I found it extremely useful to set up a keystroke to activate VD whenever I needed the thing to come back from the dead. Rather than having to go dig for it on the Dock I just hit they keystroke and back it comes. I count 1-2-3 then hit the keystroke to get to the desktop I want to use.
3) If you are trying to get a particular window to show up on a different desktop (Command-Option-O) and VD is failing to do the job: Quit VD, restart it again and it will work correctly. This bug shows up a period of time after VD has started.
4) How to reset VD. (I grabbed this tip from elsewhere so forgive me if you've read it before). You want to Quit VD then trash the following:
~/Library/Preferences/info.virtuedesktops.VirtueDesktops.plist
~Library/Caches/VirtueDesktops
~/Library/Application Support/VirtueDesktops
If folks have other useful tips to make this betaware a bit easier to use, please add to the list via replies.
:-Derek
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Works perfectly... 
- Version: 0.54 Beta 2, 10/31/2007 12:19PM PST
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Prebinder
Works perfectly for me and I used it for month. Even if it is Beta.
If you have Tiger installed you are lucky and can use this Software.
In my Opinion it`s better than Apples Spaces. No need to upgrade to Leopard.
Too bad the Developer has given up. Just because a big Company like Apple is copying Ideas it doesn`t mean they can do it better!
If you have Tiger installed you are lucky and can use this Software.
In my Opinion it`s better than Apples Spaces. No need to upgrade to Leopard.
Too bad the Developer has given up. Just because a big Company like Apple is copying Ideas it doesn`t mean they can do it better!
VirtueDesktops Is Dead, Long Live Spaces - Version: 0.54 Beta 2, 6/14/2007 09:47PM PST
zunipus
Before I post the eulogy, let me say that much as I found VirtueDesktops to be an annoying beta quality program, it has been getting me by since the effective death of CodeTek VirtualDesktop. I also have to note that VirtueDesktops does have a few niffy tricks and effects that remain ahead of their time that I will miss. A lot of vision and joyful spirit went into this program.
Thank you to the developers who have contributed to this project over the years!
OK, this was posted at the developer's website 2007-03-11:
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VirtueDesktops: the end for now
I’ve been sitting on a fairly big decision (for me) for the last few weeks. The writing has been on the wall for VirtueDesktops since last year’s WWDC, and I had intended to release a nice, stable version for 10.4 users before I stopped work on the project.
I’ve decided not to finish that version - http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?t=12392.
Needless to say, it wasn’t easy to make this call - I’ve loved working on Virtue, and I think it has some features that Spaces won’t match. The sad fact is, that since June last year, it has all been effort poured into a product that has no future.
Thank you to the developers who have contributed to this project over the years!
OK, this was posted at the developer's website 2007-03-11:
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VirtueDesktops: the end for now
I’ve been sitting on a fairly big decision (for me) for the last few weeks. The writing has been on the wall for VirtueDesktops since last year’s WWDC, and I had intended to release a nice, stable version for 10.4 users before I stopped work on the project.
I’ve decided not to finish that version - http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?t=12392.
Needless to say, it wasn’t easy to make this call - I’ve loved working on Virtue, and I think it has some features that Spaces won’t match. The sad fact is, that since June last year, it has all been effort poured into a product that has no future.
Be warned. 
- Version: 0.54 Beta 2, 5/21/2007 04:08PM PST
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mini-guy
This product did nothing for me. Yes I got a pager, but there was no multi-desktop functionality at all. Every window I opened appeared on every desktop. No window ever got shown in the pager as the documentation would suggest it should. I wasted lots of time trying to get this product working on my Intel MAC with no success. Emailed CodeTek, no response yet (surprise surprise).
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Warning! - Version: 0.54 Beta 2, 5/21/2007 04:04PM PST
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mini-guy
This product did not work as it was supposed to for me. I got a pager but no window ever appeared in it. Played with preferences, no change to functionality. Sent Email to CodeTek - no response. I'm on an Intel MAC - this product offers so much yet gives so little.
Not ready for real use - Version: 0.54 Beta 2, 2/20/2007 08:10PM PST
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dbsjunk
I used CodeTek's virtual desktop on my PowerPC mac for a long time and it worked flawlessly. I tried this out on my Intel mac but have given up on it. While some of the features are quite nice, it just isn't stable enough to be usable. Windows disappeared or didn't stay on the right desktop. The preferences window became unresponsive or moved to another desktop and I couldn't move it back. Preferences didn't stick. It crashed. Basically it's not usable for me at the moment. Every time a new version is released I try it out but so far I haven't found one that works well enough for me to use regularly. (I've really tried.)
Good Free Virtual Desktop App - Version: 0.54 Beta 2, 2/2/2007 06:09AM PST
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Timothy Dearborn
This is the best free virtual desktop app that I have found that runs with Universal Binaries. That said, I wish it had the ability to reposition windows and drag windows from one desktop to another via a pager, ala Codetek Virtual Desktops.
Problem: You click on a window for an application and find you are now in some other unintended application. Example: You have TextEdit and Stickies open. You are in a Finder window. You click on a Stickies note and find yourself in TextEdit instead. So you have to click the Stickies note a 2nd time to actually get there. This is a repeatable problem. Quitting VirtueDesktops stops it.
If anyone finds this is due to some setting in VirtueDesktops, please let us know.
Meanwhile, you can get to the Home page of http://virtuedesktops.info/ but that is all. If you try to hit any other links, the developer's server throws a string error. If anyone finds this problem has been resolved, please post.
:-Derek