[Bug 11899] cannot enable/disable "emulate a virtual desktop" setting per application

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11899





--- Comment #3 from Eric <erpo41 at gmail.com>  2008-03-08 06:48:37 ---
> A long time ago you could set a Wine desktop per application but these days
> that isn't possible anymore and this ability won't return. The reason is that
> these days Wine's GUI rendering works more like Windows and Windows doesn't
> offer this ability and inside our design we can't offer it either. (The desktop
> is managed by explorer.exe like on Windows)

> wine explorer.exe /desktop=name_for_desktop1,800x600  appname1.exe

If I set wine to use managed windows without a virtual desktop in winecfg, I
can run an instance of UltraVNC with managed windows. I can then use the above
command to run StarCraft.exe in a virtual desktop at the same time.

I don't understand why this bug was marked RESOLVED with status INVALID.

According to the resolution explanation page, INVALID means that the described
behavior is not a bug. However, as was demonstrated by my bug report and by bug
# 11078, it's a real problem when a user can't set the "emulate a virtual
desktop" bit on a per-program basis.

Even if it were impossible to set the "emulate a virtual desktop" bit on a
per-program basis without different wineprefixes, it would still be a problem
deserving a solution. Maybe the solution would be to make it easy to create
different wineprefixes. I don't know. The point is that a solution would need
to be found.

But, it turns out that wine can already do this. I don't see why a user should
have to know about explorer.exe's /desktop switch in order to access this
functionality.

I'll attach a screenshot in case anyone doesn't believe it's possible to do
what's described above.


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