30 Sep 10 18:31, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:


 ml>> i dunno... multiple desktops means one thing to me and multiple
 ml>> screens is no more than multiple windows... i had an add-on for OS/2
 ml>> called 9lives that gave it multiple desktops and each desktop had
 ml>> multiple screens/windows... later on i found one for w98 but it
 ml>> didn't work reliably and caused problems... all of my *nix
 ml>> workstation installations have had KDE on them and it defaults to 4
 ml>> desktops... one of my current ones is configured with six desktops
 ml>> and changing between each of them is like rolling a cube around to
 ml>> the one you want ;)

 RW>> What does the E in KDE stand for?  I've used a KDM between two
 RW>> computers before, but havn't heard of a KDE.

 ml> KDM or KVM between two computers?

 ml> as for the 'E' in 'KDE', originally 'KDE' was a word-play on Common
 ml> Desktop Environment... the 'K' originally was to stand for 'Kool' but
 ml> that was dropped and it became just 'K Desktop Environment'... so the
 ml> 'E' stands for 'Environment' ;)

I must have this confused. I have a Keyboard, Display and Mouse interface
that allows control of two computers with one set of KDM devices.

                R\%/itt

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