When switching desktop the windows try to gain focus and flashes on the taskbar until i click on them about virtualdesktop HOT 12 CLOSED

Hello bugwheels94,

I think this is the expected behaviour. When a program wants to notify you that it wants to be activated its icon flashes and turns orange. VirtualDesktop does not care about Window activation.

As far as I know you can change that behaviour in Control Panel or with a registry hack.

Greetings

Markus

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Hi Markus,

I used to use AHK using dlls for this thing till yesterday but that was super messy and unreliable. I have now set up this repo inside AHK and it works but I am not able to understand why all applications like (VSCode editor or Browser or windows Terminal) want focus when using this repo and not AHK Dlls.

Regedit hacks not working in Windows 10 they were working till windows 7 AFAIK

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Hello!

I am having this very issue, this is extremely annoying. 😕

Recently I mapped some keys to executable calls, this allows me to switch between my various desktops easily, and everything worked fine.

Today I reinstalled Windows (bought another SSD) and now when running .\VirtualDesktop.exe "-Switch:Desktop 1" I sometimes lose the focus on my last window, and sometimes I don't.

I really don't understand what's causing this, I went from never having the taskbar flashing orange on the icon to almost always flashing and having to ALT+TAB or clicking on the window.

EDIT: Went back to my old drive with my old Windows and can confirm that it works there. The focus is automatically set to the last window in the virtual desktop. That doesn't work on my new installation, but the setup is the same. I really don't understand what's the difference.

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Hello @shellwhale,

you might see here: https://superuser.com/questions/1332330/how-to-disable-flashing-icons-in-windows-10-taskbar

Greetings

Markus

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Thanks for the tip @MScholtes but unfortunately I already tried that on my new system and it doesn't work. Also, I just checked the registry on my old system (where this works) and the registry values are the default ones.

I noticed (on the new system, where that doesn't work) that the cursor stays on the terminal after running .\VirtualDesktop.exe "-Switch:Desktop 1". I noticed that because the keys I pressed inside the other virtual desktop showed up in the console prompt on the first desktop. The cursor doesn't move to the new desktop.

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Sometimes the focus works but that's very rare

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Same thing but on my old system. This works, but I don't know why.

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I don't quite understand what was @bugwheels94 solution to solve this. @MScholtes do you understand what he meant by this ?

I have now set up this repo inside AHK and it works

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Hallo @shellwhale,

VirtualDesktop does not care about activated windows or where the focus is. It simply ignores it and works on virtual desktops. You have to find the solution somewhere else.

Greetings

Markus

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@shellwhale I hid the taskbar completely(using nircmd) and flashing was happening or not happening but it did not bother me at all. I never use taskbar anyways. In windows 11 though, I dont notice this flashing thing at all.

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;MY AHK file


; === SYMBOLS ===
; !   <- Alt
; +   <- Shift
; ^   <- Ctrl
; #   <- Win
; For more, visit https://autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm


; ===========================
; === END OF INSTRUCTIONS ===
; ===========================

#1::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:0",,hide
#2::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:1",,hide
#3::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:2",,hide
#4::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:3",,hide
#q::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:4",,hide
#w::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:5",,hide
#e::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:6",,hide
!1::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:7",,hide
!2::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:8",,hide
!3::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:9",,hide
!4::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:10",,hide
!q::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:11",,hide
!w::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:12",,hide
!e::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\VirtualDesktop-master\VirtualDesktop11 /Switch:13",,hide
#!Space::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\nircmd-x64\nircmd.exe win trans class Shell_TrayWnd 256",,hide
#Space::Run cmd.exe /c "D:\Softwares\nircmd-x64\nircmd.exe win trans class Shell_TrayWnd 255",,hide

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Because I use the taskbar from time to time I'm now using SylphyHornPlus instead

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