Restart does not restore windows to their original spaces

tplobo commented 2 months ago

Type: Bug

I usually work with multiple projects, each with its own VSCodes window. When I restart VSCode to update it, the multiple windows are re-opened in the current space, instead of the spaces they originally were. This creates unnecessary effort to re-organize my windows in each space.

VS Code version: Code 1.92.0 (Universal) (b1c0a14de1414fcdaa400695b4db1c0799bc3124, 2024-07-31T23:26:45.634Z) OS version: Darwin arm64 23.6.0 Modes:

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|Apple M3 Max (16 x 2400)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: enabled
webnn: disabled_off| |Load (avg)|3, 5, 5| |Memory (System)|64.00GB (2.44GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id d49e38ce-4860-40cf-8059-5d65c06d0a0f| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

Extensions (31)

Extension|Author (truncated)|Version ---|---|--- vscode-sqlite|ale|0.14.1 aws-toolkit-vscode|ama|3.18.0 preview-pdf|ana|1.0.0 preview-tiff|ana|1.0.1 solargraph|cas|0.24.1 ruff|cha|2024.36.0 json-tree-view|Cha|3.6.1 gitlens|eam|15.2.3 vscode-great-icons|emm|2.1.105 prettier-vscode|esb|10.4.0 pythonsnippets|frh|1.0.2 copilot|Git|1.219.0 copilot-chat|Git|0.18.1 vscode-pull-request-github|Git|0.92.0 restore-git-branch-tabs|gko|0.4.1 applescript|idl|0.25.1 vscode-plist|ivh|0.1.3 debugpy|ms-|2024.10.0 python|ms-|2024.13.2024080201 jupyter|ms-|2024.7.0 jupyter-keymap|ms-|1.1.2 jupyter-renderers|ms-|1.0.19 vscode-jupyter-cell-tags|ms-|0.1.9 vscode-jupyter-slideshow|ms-|0.1.6 macos-native-copy-paste|qt-|1.2.2 sqlite-viewer|qwt|0.5.11 ruby-lsp|Sho|0.7.14 lua|sum|3.10.1 vscode-counter|uct|3.5.0 vscode-todo-highlight|way|1.0.5 vscode-ruby|win|0.28.0 (2 theme extensions excluded)

A/B Experiments

``` vsliv368cf:30146710 vspor879:30202332 vspor708:30202333 vspor363:30204092 vscoreces:30445986 vscod805:30301674 binariesv615:30325510 vsaa593:30376534 py29gd2263:31024239 c4g48928:30535728 azure-dev_surveyone:30548225 962ge761:30959799 pythongtdpath:30769146 welcomedialogc:30910334 pythonnoceb:30805159 asynctok:30898717 pythonregdiag2:30936856 pythonmypyd1:30879173 2e7ec940:31000449 pythontbext0:30879054 accentitlementsc:30995553 dsvsc016:30899300 dsvsc017:30899301 dsvsc018:30899302 cppperfnew:31000557 dsvsc020:30976470 pythonait:31006305 dsvsc021:30996838 01bff139:31013167 pythoncenvpt:31062603 a69g1124:31058053 dvdeprecation:31068756 dwnewjupytercf:31046870 2f103344:31071589 impr_priority:31102340 refactort:31108082 ccplt:31103426 pythonrstrctxt:31103193 wkspc-onlycs-c:31106320 ```

vs-code-engineering[bot] commented 2 months ago

Thanks for creating this issue! We figured it's covering the same as another one we already have. Thus, we closed this one as a duplicate. You can search for similar existing issues. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!

tplobo commented 2 months ago

Oh, I am sorry @bpasero, I did not use the right keywords when searching through past issues. Anyhow, I think the original issue of which this one is a duplicate is #979 (the duplicate tag is not clear). There has been a lot of discussion there since it was closed, and I'd like to know if this could not be reconsidered. I currently use a custom solution for my own spaces organization, but this seems a bit of an overkill for a problem that happens multiple times per month. Thanks in any case.

bpasero commented 2 months ago

We use Electron and have no API to do this, so I suggest you speak up at:

microsoft / vscode

Restart does not restore windows to their original spaces #224776