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Ian Hanschen

Thomas W Olsen

Stephen Harry Wright

Peter Freiling

Mohamed A M Sadek

Lindsay Ann Kubasik

Leonardo Esteban Blanco

Greg D Schechter

Gregory David Swedberg

Adrian Secchia

Jevan D Saks

Andrey E Arsov

Christopher A Fortier

Peter Benjamin Freiling

Mohamed AM Sadek

A virtualized coordinate system is determined that describes an alternate monitor space. The virtualized coordinate system is provided to an application providing content to be displayed and the application provides virtualized rendering information including coordinates in the virtualized coordinate system. The virtualized rendering information is scaled for display on the monitor.

Virtualizing applications for per-monitor displaying

Described is a pluggable policy component that determines the look and feel, or windows visual experience, of a computer user interface. Window-related instructions are redirected to the policy component, while client area change instructions are provided to a substrate (into which the policy component plugs in) that includes a composition component. The plug-in policy component handles windows-related (e.g., structural or attribute) changes to a scene graph to construct and maintain the scene graph, while the substrate handles program content changes to the client areas within windows. The substrate may include a desktop window manager that has access to the client areas in the scene graph, whereby the desktop window manager can copy a client area for rendering. For example, the desktop window manager can provide a supplemental live thumbnail image of a window.

Pluggable window manager architecture using a scene graph system

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