When I came across this movie:
I was pretty amazed. While reading the comments on this blog I found out that the dudes at MactelChat had made a version for VirtueDesktops (the one I use since it is more actively developed than DesktopManager. The only problem I had was that it needed me to go to the terminal to start it.
So I decided to code (my first) XCode AppleScript application that does the trick. As a bonus I added a preference pane to change the values as supported by the mactelchat app.
If you are interested you can download the app here (includes XCode project): SlapBook