[Bug 37937] Fullscreen applications are minimized when switching virtual desktops / workspaces

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37937

--- Comment #10 from Forest <winehq at tibit.com> ---
(In reply to Stefan Dösinger from comment #9)

> In your use case you have a problem in the old way as well. E.g. I'm running
> Starcraft 1 at 640x480. Now I switch to desktop 2 to check the strategy map,
> and I'm happy it stays at 640x480 to match maps. Now I receive a mail and
> want to access my Thunderbird on desktop 3. In 640x480?

I don't, really.  The games I play that don't support my desktop resolution do
come close enough to it that switching workspaces to do something else works
well.  For example, Sid Meier's Pirates does support 1920x1200, but it does
support 1600x1200.  Switching between the two was painless until this change
went into wine.

> some games wait for the unminimize message to resume operation

I don't follow.  They wait for the unminimize message even when they weren't
minimized in the first place?

> a feature users generally ask for (bugs 15357, 18027).

For bug 15357 and bug 18027, perhaps it would make sense to minimize on alt+tab
but not when the desktop workspace is switched?  That would solve the problem
described in those bug reports without creating the new one described in this
one.

> Making this a registry key or winecfg option is potentially possible, but
> we'll need a bigger number of requests for this to justify adding an option,
> especially since the virtual desktop feature provides this pretty well.

Well, thanks for the partial workaround, at least.  I guess I'll just have to
hope more people experiencing the new problem will notice and report it.

Regressions make me sad.

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