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imawizard / MiguruWM

A tiling window manager for Windows
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Run MiguruWM without explorer.exe #22

Closed kyx0r closed 1 year ago

kyx0r commented 1 year ago

Hi wizard,

Thanks for fixing all the issues this far. My question if it is possible to run MiguruWM without explorer? It crashes and nothing works once explorer.exe is killed. How difficult would it be (if possible at all) to keep it functioning in such an environment?

imawizard commented 1 year ago

np, thanks for the reports.

Do you still want to use multiple workspaces/desktops or do you just want to tile the windows of a single one? Because without explorer.exe the virtual desktops can't be used and there's no Immersive Shell COM object (at least for Win10). You could make the usage of this.VD in the code conditional so no errors would be thrown if there's no explorer.exe, but then not much functionality would be left.

For such a use case window managers like komorebi that don't utilize native virtual desktops would be better suited.

kyx0r commented 1 year ago

Ahh, I see. I think its alright. I just hide the taskbar and it seems to be good enough. Thanks for such wonderful project!