Posted on 05-May-2000 12:17 GMT by Christian Kemp | 36 comments View flat View list |
Did anybody on here hear about AtheOS, a free operating system for the Intel architecture released under the GPL license? I've been looking at the screenshots and see some familiarities...
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Posted by Anbjorn Myren on 04-May-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 18 (Kurt Skauen): :Still pritty far from the AtheOS GUI. In AtheOS you have a ScreenPrefs panel where you can configure the screen mode on each of the 32 desktop's.
:When you start a new app it will normaly open it's window on the current desktop. You can then change active desktop by hitting [ALT]+F1-F12 to select
:between the first 12 desktop's. If you "left-click" the window border the window will be moved to the new desktop. If you hold down both mouse buttons
:the window will be "cloned" and will be accessible at both desktops. Ie. you don't have to configure which window goes to which desktop, you just go to the
:right desktop before starting it, or move it there after it is started. I'm sure MUI is a greate GUI system, but it does not seem to look much like the AtheOS
:GUI. BTW, does MUI fix the windows so they can be move them partly outside the screen?
As you say, its probably far away from how MUI works, but there are still similarities:
- Comparing MUI-Prefs to ScreenPrefs, you can use MUIprefs to define public screens and their different
depths and resolutions.
- If maybe not as implemented with the F-keys, but there is no problem with opening a MUI program on one
screen and move it to another screen, or open a new one. You just change it in the MUI-settings for that
program and choose either to use or to save the new settings, and the program window opens on the selected
screen. Its only possible to have a window open on one screen at the time though. But if you really wants
have a program on two screens at the same time (I cant see why?), then why not run another copy of the
program (most amiga programs can be ran in as many copies simultaniously as you have memory for.
About the F-keys, I dont know if MUI-settings can be controlled by arexx ? If it can, you probably could
configure the F-keys to do this as well.
- In AmigaOS you cant drag windows outside the visible screen. But I wouldnt be any surpriced if you find
hack on aminet that lets you do just that. I havent looked for it. Simply cause I never missed that feature.
Sure if you run a low-res screensize it could be useful, but I think most Amigas in use today has gfx-cards
and use sensible resolutions anyway. |
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