Hey folks,
I want to run three separate, distinct desktops on my Windows PC at the office. This kind of thing is built into Gnome or KDE or OS X via the X.org window manager, but I'm not sure of the best way to accomplish this in Windows. I don't want to start swimming the seas of shareware, so to speak, so I'm hoping that someone here will know of a way to do this without relying on gimmicky apps etc. Stability and security are both extremely important on my office PC (obviously), so I'm looking for something that delivers on both of those fronts, in that it's not going to flake out on me and cause my system to hang/crash, and it's not going to present any security issues or open any holes etc.
Moving on from that, I'd also like to assign each unique desktop to it's own display. I'm currently running three displays right now, and I can move different apps freely in between the displays, and dock them wherever, except for the right side of my left-hand monitor, or the left side of my right-hand monitor, or either side of my center monitor. This is because Windows just gives the illusion of having three desktops, but it's really just extending the working space of your one desktop across all three displays.
Final desired goal: One unique, individual, separate desktop per display, and I use three displays.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
PS: My display card is an
AMD FirePro V4900. I have two displays connected to it via HDMI-DisplayPort and the third is connected to the on-board DVI. I'd love to have all three displays connected to the same video card, and this FirePro was supposed to be able to handle it, but it only seems to recognise two displays at a time, regardless of which ports I use on it. I didn't feel like troubleshooting it at the time, so I just copped out and stuck the third monitor in the on-board DVI.
Edit: Also, to be clear, I'm not looking for a single, unified desktop spread across my three screens (no "Eyefinity"). Just one computer, with one unique desktop on each monitor.
Help with a Windows setup: One unique desktop per display * 3
