Fast, lightweight desktop manager written in AutoHotkey

Re:Fast, lightweight desktop manager written in AutoHotkey by Joeri on Sunday September 07, 2014 @01:51AM (#8280439)

This seems to be a virtual desktops utility. Can anyone explain what it does differently from microsoft's virtual desktops utility?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881.asp...

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Re:Fast, lightweight desktop manager written in AutoHotkey by Sir_Cmpwn on Sunday September 07, 2014 @02:59AM (#8280496)

Well, imagine if that utility had 10x the footprint and was written in the worst language for the job.

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Re:Fast, lightweight desktop manager written in AutoHotkey by octalmage on Sunday September 07, 2014 @07:06AM (#8280774)

mDesktop compiled uses MUCH less memory and is much faster.

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Re:Fast, lightweight desktop manager written in AutoHotkey by pknight on Sunday September 07, 2014 @07:03AM (#8280768)

The one hosted there is very limited. You can't move windows from one virtual desktop to the next for one. Mdesktop is pretty light weight.

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Re:Fast, lightweight desktop manager written in AutoHotkey by octalmage on Sunday September 07, 2014 @07:26AM (#8280811)

I agree completely. I created mDesktop in 2007 because none of the solutions out there worked for me. They were either bloated and slow, or missing basic functionality. A program that is always running on your computer need to have almost zero RAM footprint, and mDesktop uses 300-400kb.

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Re:Fast, lightweight desktop manager written in AutoHotkey by jmlucjav on Sunday September 07, 2014 @03:36PM (#8282143)

I used mdesktop quite a long time ago, it was the best window manager without a doubt for me, tested all others I found.

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Re:Fast, lightweight desktop manager written in AutoHotkey by botismarius on Sunday September 07, 2014 @07:55AM (#8280863)

It is open source, so you can learn a lot from its sources.

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