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Scrolling

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For other uses, see Scroll (disambiguation). Look up scrolling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Parallax scrolling In computer displays, filmmaking, television production, and other kinetic displays, scrolling is sliding text, images or video across a monitor or display, vertically or horizontally. "Scrolling", as such, does not change the layout of the text or pictures, but moves (pans or tilts) the user's view across what is apparently a larger image that is not wholly seen. A common television and movie special effect is to scroll credits, while leaving the background stationary. Scrolling may take place completely without user intervention (as in film credits) or, on an interactive device, be triggered by touchscreen or a keypress and continue without further intervention until a further user action, or be entirely controlled by input devices. Scrolling may take place in discrete increments (perhaps one or a few lines of text at a time), or continuously ( smooth ...

Virtual desktop

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For software that creates a virtualized environment between the computer platform and its operating system, see Virtual machine. For virtual machines running desktop environments, see Desktop virtualization. For the virtual reality software application, see Virtual Desktop. Virtual desktops rendered as the faces of a cube. In this example a Unix-like operating system is using the X windowing system and the Compiz cube plugin to decorate the KDE desktop environment. In computing, a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interfaces, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which the virtual space of a computer's desktop environment is expanded beyond the physical limits of the screen's display area through the use of software. This compensates for a limited desktop area and can also be helpful in reducing clutter. There are two major approaches to expanding the virtual area of the screen. Switchable virtual desktops allow the user to make virtual copies...