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Ross-Patterson / Portals-Desktop-Organization

A free, simple, lightweight and customizable tool for desktop organization on Windows.
https://portals-app.com
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Separate portals per windows virtual desktop #129

Open silvacarlosec opened 1 year ago

silvacarlosec commented 1 year ago

Hello, Devs!

I am a portal's user a few weeks ago and I appreciate this app. It's very useful! But I am missing a better integration with Windows Virtual Desktops.

What about different portals in each Virtual Desktop? In a such way we can have an exclusive workspace (i.e., a portal) for work in a desktop, in another desktop a portal for academic tasks, etc. A portal exclusive for a virtual desktop, that is not shared to other existent desktops.

Regards,

Carlos Silva

NocGeek commented 1 year ago

I am new to the app and had yet to try this but I could definitely see myself using the feature if it existed.

Ross-Patterson commented 1 year ago

So I did some research on this one and here is what I have found.

So currently every Portal you create is just a Window, but its a special type of window called a Tool Window. A tool window is not visible when cycling through windows using Alt+Tab which is specifically why I am using it.

The downside is that Tool Windows are visible on ALL virtual desktops.

There is no way it seems to have a window invisible to Alt+Tab but also be specific to one virtual desktop.

So....

I could do this, but you would have to sacrifice the Alt+Tab invisibility... thoughts?

NocGeek commented 1 year ago

So I did some research on this one and here is what I have found.

So currently every Portal you create is just a Window, but its a special type of window called a Tool Window. A tool window is not visible when cycling through windows using Alt+Tab which is specifically why I am using it.

The downside is that Tool Windows are visible on ALL virtual desktops.

There is no way it seems to have a window invisible to Alt+Tab but also be specific to one virtual desktop.

So....

I could do this, but you would have to sacrifice the Alt+Tab invisibility... thoughts?

if alt tab worked for only the virtual desktop i was on that would be great. if alt tab worked but showed all items on all desktops that would be ok. if alt tab just didn't work that would suck.

Ross-Patterson commented 1 year ago

Alt+Tab would show all windows on that specific virtual desktop, including all of the Portal windows on that desktop because I would have to make them normal windows and not Tool windows in order to have them separate per desktop.