VirtueDesktops

Hey guys, quick update so nobody freaks out when they’re greeted with WordPress on loading this site rather than the old drupal install. I’ve begun moving the site across to WordPress, as I feel it’s a much simpler system to manage than Drupal (personal opinion only, I’m not going to back that up). So far, so good - there are a couple of kinks to work out, but once that’s done I should have to spend a lot less time managing the new site (which means more releases). And about the broken links — yes, I know — I’ll fix them when it’s not 1 am.

The other (unfortunate) thing that has been happening is that the VirtueTrac install has been defaced a number of times by what appear to be spambots. From here on out, you’ll need to log-in using the username/password ‘virtue/virtue‘ before filing your tickets or making comments - please remember to change the username virtue to your e-mail address before submitting the ticket.

Anyhow, once I’ve sorted out the website theme, and done a little house cleaning, I’ll be headlong back into code updates - I’ve almost finished re-writing the background image setting to be a little more intuitive (and less broken!), as well as removing the need to be a member of the procmod group on intel machines (w00t! thanks to Cédric Luthi for the code that makes this possible).

Oh, and I’m off to WWDC this year, so if you’re going - drop me a line.

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First up, I’d like to thank Parallels (and the mysterious originator of the VirtueDesktop/Parallels demo video on YouTube) for bringing so much attention to VirtueDesktops! I am a heavy user of their Parallels Desktop for Mac at work, and didn’t even think to use VirtueDesktops in that manner.

But back to the issue at hand - in Parallels Desktop Release Candidate (RC) 1, Parallels made some changes to how full-screen focus was handled such that whenever you tried to use VirtueDesktops to switch away from your full-screen Parallels Desktop session, Parallels Desktop would drop out of full-screen mode, back into windowed mode. Well kudos to Parallels for reacting quickly to user feedback, because they’ve fixed it in RC2 and higher. To ensure that your Parallels Desktop sessions remain full-screen when switching using VirtueDesktops, simply open Parallels Desktops’ preferences, navigate to ‘User Interface’, select ‘Advanced…’ and make sure that ‘Exit full screen on focus lost’ is not checked.

As an aside, I’m also calling out anyone to find another news item or blog posting with more valid uses of the word ‘Desktop’ in it. Tony out

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