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Ask HN: does an Expanding Desktop exist?
1 point by the_cat_kittles on Sept 19, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I imagine something that you open windows in, arrange however you want, and then you can slide left and right, up and down, and maybe even zoom out and in. Os X has discrete spaces, i want something that would be the equivalent of laying a bunch pieces of paper on an infinite (real) desktop, and moving your head around to focus on one area. Does a UI like this exist?



X11 has (had?) a virtual desktop setting that you could make larger than your monitor and either share between different monitors or scroll around using a single monitor.





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