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OOTB, FATDOG desktop has several virtual desktops. Is there a way to "slit" the monitor's real desktop to "regionalize" each desktop...separately?

I've seen picture of such from seminars & shows, but until now never had a 4K monitor of 60 inches to my PC. with this real-estate, the possibility of maintaining focus in different regions simultaneously is "real" if there is some way to do so via the FATDOG OS.

Thanks in advance.

BTW: The TV is cheaper than PC monitors with same resolution and same response-time specs with greater real-estate for the price. Better value for someone who is not into gaming nor into multimedia content manipulations that MAC PCs are known for..

Has anyone here, other than myself, thought of this use ability? I am sure someone, here, is already doing this.

I have and haven't done what you're asking.

I am not good at holidays.

I went on holiday a couple of months ago. I took along with me my work. I had my laptop connected to the 4k TV in the holiday apartment. From there, i used Back Seat Driver to connect to the computer at my business. I was able to use the 4k TV to have a local browser window open along the top of the screen, & the dual 1080P screens at work along the bottom, so essentially 3 desktops on the one screen.

I haven't used compiz for a long time, but I have a feeling there is something along the lines of what you're asking buried in it somewhere. It is available for Fatdog, so perhaps that's a hint at how to do it.

Alternate method is to run 2 VMs as two separate windows on your host's desktop.

Hi Clarity.

Don't know about assigning different virtual desktops to different display screen regions or other such out of box choices. What I'd be inclined to do would be my own bespoke version, perhaps using distinctly different/isolated 'boxes' using separate 'containers', maybe with windows decorations turned off and something like Xephyr --screensize 1024x768 ... type settings along with xdotool moving each and/or vnc into other boxes with the window position size similarly set, so multiple different boxes all running/displaying on the same single display (where with Fatdog one or more of those might be actually using the same fd64.sfs to run, so very lightweight).

If using the same single box then simple window sizing/positioning could be used instead of using virtual desktops.

Or xrandr can create/use a window area larger than the actual display size so scrolling to the edges scrolls around that single large area.

Fundamentally doable, but off the top of my head I don't know of a simple out of box setting/configuration to allocate separate virtual desktops to different single display regions.

@Clarity

A tiling window manager would "regionalize" the display, maybe not what your looking for though.

wizard

Found these 2 products:

1. Used by a developer

2. Used by a remote worker

Curious in a search for open-source solution. The ones mentioned are not...but you can see how they work to take advantage of these Large 4K monitors.

You can do that with fakeXinerama https://github.com/Xpra-org/libfakeXinerama