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on nov 2nd, 2005

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i've been using desktop manager since i started using mac os and it's been great for basic virtual desktops. i came across virtue a while back which is a fork of desktop manager with some new features, but it's been abandoned and doesn't work with tiger (and worse, it makes your screen unusable when launching it under tiger).

this evening i came across the site of tony arnold who has forked the fork, and is carrying on virtue's development under tiger. everything seems to work great with 0.5r5 including key bindings and forcing windows to stay on certain desktops. now if i can just figure out how to switch to a given desktop with applescript...

update: florian kohl mailed me to let me know that if you drag an application onto the applescript script editor, it will show you a complete applescript dictionary for that application. doing so, i figured out that i can do, wait for it now, it's complicated:

tell application "Virtue"
show desktop "three"
end tell

dang.

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