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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2008
Maureen Emily Duffy, Somerville, MA (US);
Maureen Emily Duffy, Somerville, MA (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
Described herein is a method and apparatus for generating and managing multiple desktops. The desktops can be tied to virtual software environments, remote desktops, separate user account desktops, shared desktops, full screen applications or similar sources. The desktops are managed through a desktop management interface that displays a scale image of each current desktop. The desktops can also be marked by type in the interface. The desktop management system queries a user during start-up for each program to determine whether a new desktop is to be generated for the program. The desktop management system also manages the switching between the available desktops.