[Virtualacorn-list] Comparison of VRPC on Mac or Windows 7

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

On 3 Mar at 9:37, David Pitt <pittdj at pittdj.co.uk> wrote:

> Roger Darlington <rogerarm at freeuk.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 2 Mar 2011, David Pitt  wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>  
> > > Anyway full screen is the one to use.
> > 
> > I use this 'mode' all the time. I haven't paid over the odds for a
> > monitor with an enormous number of pixels only to reduce the number
> > of useful pixels to that of a £300 monitor! That would have been
> > utterly pointless. I need all of the real estate all for RO :-))
> 
> There is one circumstance where windowed mode is a must but
> fortunately that only applies on the Mac here, where it is not a
> problem. I use Mac's Spaces which give a number of virtual desktops.
> Fullscreen in not only full screen it is the only screen, the other
> virtual desktops are unreachable with VRPC in fullscreen mode. In
> windowed mode one can move around at will, and there is no cursor
> issue as there would be on Windows, the cursor changes between Mac and
> RISC OS as it enters and leaves VRPC.

Agreed.  Windowed operation works very well here on my Mac.  

The only problem is the bringing forward of the icon bar when you scroll
over it.  Easily solved by reducing the base of a full window height by
one pixel from full screen size.  Though I would like to automate the
last but have yet to find a way of doing so.

I have VirtualRPC in one window on one monitor and all other Mac
operations on the other monitor.  Spaces allows me to cycle through the
Mac's live operations while keeping VRPC always in its own monitor.

For large and complicated displays on the Mac I can still stretch them
over both monitors.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                           tim at powys.org
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