Patent ID: 8356256

Claim:
In a computing environment comprising one or more client devices and a display server, wherein the display server controls a plurality of different physical displays, a method of implementing scratch spaces to display one or more windows or slides previously streamed while displaying a currently streamed window or slide, the method comprising: using one of the plurality of displays, displaying a source window or slide; identifying a first scratch space location on a different physical display, the first scratch space location being a special window intended for displaying a copy of pixels taken from a source window or slide; wherein the first scratch space location on the different physical display is associated with an accelerator such that user selection of the accelerator automatically causes pixels from the source window or slide to be copied to the first scratch space location on the different physical display; detecting user input selecting the accelerator, the accelerator being one or more keys associated with the source window or slide and the first scratch space location; and as a result of detecting user input selecting the accelerator, copying pixels of the source window or slide to the first scratch space location.