[RFC] Trying to fix desktop switches, cont.

[Gabriel Ivăncescu]

On 09/07/2020 19:41, Henri Verbeet wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 20:51, Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo at o2.pl> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 05:31:34PM +0430, Henri Verbeet wrote:
>>> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 16:12, Gabriel Ivăncescu <gabrielopcode at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 08/07/2020 22:36, Rafał Mużyło wrote:
>>>>
>>>> AFAIK, Windows 10 supports multiple desktops / workspaces. Did you try
>>>> to see what happens in Windows 10 when you switch desktops?
>>>>
>>> Potentially relevant:
>>> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200302-00/?p=103507
>>
>> Kind of interesting, yet likely orthogonal, as all the time I was (as
>> explicitly noted in the previous post) talking about *X11* virtual
>> desktops.
>>
> It was clear that you were talking about X11 virtual desktops, yes. I
> think ideally we'd map between the two concepts somehow, but the
> reason I thought that post was potentially relevant was that it
> describes some of the considerations behind the Windows 10
> implementation of virtual desktops.
> 

In my opinion, implementing DWMWA_CLOAKED and then implementing this 
feature with DWMWA_CLOAKED sounds like the proper solution here. The 
link Henri posted reveals many reasons why, too.

Rafał, you said that your application pauses when it is minimized by 
Wine (which is what it does when you switch X11 virtual desktops now), 
and "disabling" it works. But it works for that particular app.

Other applications might have undesired behavior when disabled, 
especially because it's not an operation a user can typically do. That's 
why it's not a good idea (unless Windows also did it, but that's not the 
case here).