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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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AtheOS : Comment 29 of 36ANN.lu
Posted by Georg Steger on 05-May-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 27 (Victor):
:. :- 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.
:.
:. Did not miss it to much eighter when I was running AmigaOS only, but I almost
:. freaked out when I tried an
:Amiga again after getting used to this feature from other OS's :)
:
:There is a utility called PowerWindows that makes it possible by a simple trick.
:I used it for years without problems. BTW, I wonder why it wasn't in the OS
:originally, as everything is there for it. (Layers, etc.)
BTW: The PowerWindows version on Aminet still used a very bad hack to disable
Intuition's "dont allow windows to be dragged outside screen" routine. It also
only allowed windows to be dragged out of screen at the right and bottom screen
edge.
There is a newer version (and anyway already some years old) which directly
patches the ROM (BlizKick module or patch a kick file on hd which is then
used with a ROM kick utility). This version if a lot faster and safier and
also allows windows to be dragged out of screen on all edges of the screen
like in all other OSes.
PowerWindows also uses out-of-screen moving to implement its iconfying
(or better minimizing) feature. Iconfied windows are simply moved completely
out of screen. This way every window can be iconified.
Unfortunately only very few people registered to PowerWindows so this
version was never released, only the registered people have it. Also
development of PowerWindows has stopped since long time.
It would have been very easy to add virtual desktop support like in X
or AtheOS (? except for different resolutions) where windows could
also be in all virtual desktops at the same time if one wanted.
Each Amiga screen could have had its own virtual desktops.
Maybe there'll be something like this (but without patches, instead
a better layers.library) in AROS ;-)
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