Montage

Needless to say that having to deal with an abundance of windows on a single desktop is a great pain, especially when you need to launch and reposition multiple programs every day. On the bright side of things, there are specialized applications like Montage which help you eliminate this routine by creating custom layouts.

You start off in a blank canvas, which is more or less a new desktop. You get to fill it with icons for programs, files, folders, and nearly any kind of content you need to be launched in your projects. Various details can be included, such as path, attributes, as well as window position when it is launched the next time.

The new desktop can be fitted with a background picture, while icons themselves are free to drag across the entire space. It’s also possible to have custom names and icons added to make identification even easier later on. Multiple configurations can be set up and saved, depending on the type of work involved.

The application offers several tool with which to perform diagnostics, just in case things don’t really go as planned. These can be accessed and performed from the associated context menu, where an abundance of other settings can be found, most of which serve as ways of customizing display and positioning.

Custom window positioning for your items can be configured. The application remembers all your settings when closed, so by the time you run the program again, you can have all previous programs launched in the same manner, thus saving you a great deal of time and effort.

All things considered, we can state that Montage is not just a virtual desktop, but one that also remembers what you’re working with, and how, to be able to return to any workspace with little effort. Multiple configurations can be set up, each with custom sets of programs and variables.