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Flash Desktops

Screenshots:
These screenshots are taken from version 2.52.60.

Configuation interface:
Here are some screenshots from the Flash Desktops configuration interface (not visible during normal use). You shouldn't be worried by the apparent complexity: actually you can already begin to use it with the default settings.

From the page shown above you can perform some immediate actions and/or set up some global settings.

Most of the hotkeys available during normal use can be set here. Setting hotkeys is not compulsory (most of the things can be done with the mouse) but it's very handy!
Please forgive me for the Italian writings in the hotkeys (Nessuno = None). They depend upon the language of Microsoft Windows under which the program is running: in your computer the writings will be in your language.

This is the Flash Desktops database: you can see all the windows present in the system and send instant commands to them.
As you can see there are many more windows than one can imagine! Most of them are not visible.
There are features which allow you to quickly find the window you are interested in from the hundreds.

When some windows refuse to respond and appear hanged FD writes them here. You can ping them, or accept their current state as good, or in the worst cases terminate them.

Here you have control panels for customizing the Real Multirouting (very unique feature of FD2, but too complicated to be explained here), defining sticky windows, and defining the programs for which you want to use the moveaway alternative desktopping technique (Internet Explorer 5 at least :).

Just to give you an idea of the power of the window rules in FD2. This is the filtering part.
Setting up a rule doesn't require much effort because you can fetch the data for all the above half of the options directly from the window you are seeking: see the hotkey on the right.

This is the action part of the rules. You can do most things you can imagine for a Virtual Desktop Manager.
And if the action part is not enough for you, you can send a notification to a program of yours and do your custom actions from there. (Notifications and remote controlling of FD2 is possible with easy Windows messages: C Header file included)

Tray Icons:
The configuration interface in the screenshots above is not visible during normal use. What you normally use is hotkeys and the tray icons, which are sensible to both left and right mousebuttons.
 

Here is a screenshot of the FD tray icons: Desktop 1 is the active one.
You can change desktop with left mousebutton.
Here you can see the feedback during window routing: the user is moving the active window (was present in current Desktop which is #1) to Desktop 2.
Here is a multiple routing: active window is being moved to desktops 2 and 4. This is the display just before the user releases the right mouse button. The user can toggle the presence of the window in a desktop by clicking with left mousebutton while holding right mousebutton down.
4 desktops is the default setting, but you can have any number of desktops in the range 2 - 8