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aardappel / procrastitracker

a Windows time tracking application
http://strlen.com/procrastitracker/
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Time Spent in virtual desktop untrackable #34

Open dmanty45 opened 7 years ago

dmanty45 commented 7 years ago

Hi!

Huge fan of your work. Has saved me a bunch of time for billing & keeping track of time.

I had an issue recently with keeping track of time spent in virtual desktops. I was using a tool called "Desktops" from sysinternals. Procrastitracker (and a few other similiar apps) cannot seem to track any activity in any other virtual destop but desktop 1. What is the reason for this?

I posted this question on a sysinternals forum too, we will see what happens there.

Thanks, Drew Morrissey

aardappel commented 7 years ago

Thanks for letting me know!

The techniques I use (input hook, timer, querying current window title and url) are not desktop specific I hope, so I have no direct idea why this is going wrong. I could do some debugging to see where it fails, if at all.

Not sure if it is specific to that tool.. Have you tried to use the built-in Windows mult-desktop support and see if that works?