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Virtual desktop manager

  • US 7,594,185 B2
  • Filed: 12/01/2005
  • Issued: 09/22/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Method for providing different background images for multiple virtual desktops in a graphical user interface being presented on a display of a computer system, the method comprising:

  • presenting on the display of the computer system a full-size virtual desktop with a full-size background image and two or more thumbnails of virtual desktops including a thumbnail of the full-size virtual desktop;

    receiving a first indication, selecting a virtual desktop from the two or more thumbnails as a selected virtual desktop;

    receiving a second indication, selecting an image as a new background image for the selected virtual desktop;

    changing a background image associated with the selected virtual desktop to the new background image;

    changing a background image of a thumbnail of the selected virtual desktop to the new background image; and

    changing the full-sized background image to the new background image when the selected virtual desktop corresponds to the full-sized virtual desktop.

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