Git Product home page Git Product logo

virtual-desktop-tracker's Introduction

Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Tracker

When using Windows 10's virtual desktops feature, there's no way to tell at a glance which virtual desktop you're currently on.

This utility program shows a tasktray icon tracking the current virtual desktop number.

Initially the icon will display "0," meaning no virtual desktops are in use. When the user creates and switches to an alternate desktop, the original desktop will be designated "1" instead of "0" and the new desktop will be "2," and so on. The program tracks up to 9 concurrent virtual desktops.

👍 You can also manually set individual desktop background images per virtual desktop via an INI-file.

Getting Started

Put VDTracker.exe somewhere, create a shortcut to it, open a file explorer with 'shell:startup' and drop the shortcut in there so the program starts as boot.

Learn how to configure individual virtual desktop backgrounds.

Prerequisites

Build is targetted for dotnet 2.

Roadmap

No further features planned.

License

CC0 where possible.

Acknowledgments

  • Based on example code by Chris Lewis [MSFT] - link

virtual-desktop-tracker's People

Contributors

belzecue avatar

Stargazers

avatar avatar avatar

Watchers

avatar

virtual-desktop-tracker's Issues

Misnumbered desktops

Now and then, when switching desktops for the first time, the program will incorrectly label the new desktop as number 1 and designate the original "0" desktop as number 2, instead of assigning the original desktop the number 1 and the new desktop as number 2. This is due to a race condition in the Windows Virtual Desktop API. If this causes you any unhappiness, simply restart the program from the first desktop and try again.

Desktops get ordered incorrectly

Had two desktops, 1 & 2.
In Windows, added third desktop. However, vdtracker mislabeled them and I ended up with 3,1,2 assigned to OS desktops 1,2,3.
Might be related to Issue #6.

However, restarting vdtracker shows the 3 desktops with correct vd numbers. So this is to do with dynamically adding an OS desktop.

Recommend Projects

  • React photo React

    A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

  • Vue.js photo Vue.js

    🖖 Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.

  • Typescript photo Typescript

    TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

  • TensorFlow photo TensorFlow

    An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

  • Django photo Django

    The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

  • D3 photo D3

    Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. 📊📈🎉

Recommend Topics

  • javascript

    JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight interpreted programming language with first-class functions.

  • web

    Some thing interesting about web. New door for the world.

  • server

    A server is a program made to process requests and deliver data to clients.

  • Machine learning

    Machine learning is a way of modeling and interpreting data that allows a piece of software to respond intelligently.

  • Game

    Some thing interesting about game, make everyone happy.

Recommend Org

  • Facebook photo Facebook

    We are working to build community through open source technology. NB: members must have two-factor auth.

  • Microsoft photo Microsoft

    Open source projects and samples from Microsoft.

  • Google photo Google

    Google ❤️ Open Source for everyone.

  • D3 photo D3

    Data-Driven Documents codes.