Post AutmVwBtzUgVCzZpLc by smn@l3ib.org
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 (DIR) Post #Autl0tbdS4QiGCFQ1I by foone@digipres.club
       2025-06-07T20:35:51Z
       
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       Since I've been stuck on a laptop during my illness, I've been using Windows Task View a lot now. It's mostly a nice implementation of multiple desktops, very handy for swapping in and out complicated workspaces.but good lord I hate how it interacts with single-instance programs: If you're on desktop 3 (reverse engineering) and click on Sublime Text (which isn't open on this desktop, but is on desktop 1 (social/games), the way it handles this is to switch to desktop 1
       
 (DIR) Post #AutlBbLHhDt6nlhjii by foone@digipres.club
       2025-06-07T20:37:50Z
       
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       and maybe it's just my ADHD making me super sensitive to focus-shifting like this, but this feels almost painfully jarring behavior.You're doing X, with programs A, B, & C, and click your shortcut to G and WHOOPS A, B & C are gone now, here's applications D, E, and F! i.e. what you were looking at before you switched tasks an hour ago
       
 (DIR) Post #AutlEE8qPbmxiO8bSa by foone@digipres.club
       2025-06-07T20:38:11Z
       
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       it'd be nice to have an option to just say "if I click on a program open in another window, bring it here, don't bring me there"
       
 (DIR) Post #AutlSTF546RMbQqYGu by foone@digipres.club
       2025-06-07T20:40:55Z
       
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       I'm constantly doing this with Paint.net and Sublime Text. I'll be trying to view some screenshots I took of a game I'm hacking and I try to go to paint.net and instead I get sent over to my socials task where I was editing a meme. or vice versa: I think of a story to write and before I can open a new tab and start typing, sublime switches me over to my ghidra+dosbox+dosbox+dosbox task because I was writing a game data exporter in python
       
 (DIR) Post #AutlZ4Shb1MBm7Mhmq by foone@digipres.club
       2025-06-07T20:42:06Z
       
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       the "nicer" option would just be to let me run two copies of the computer, but I can easily see why that'd be a headache for an implementation standpoint for microsoft. it'd break things
       
 (DIR) Post #AutljjbPUY4qGXWUd6 by bruce@darkmoon.social
       2025-06-07T20:43:57Z
       
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       @foone It's the same on Gnome. Apps stay on whichever workspace they first appear until you move them. Or specify all workspaces.
       
 (DIR) Post #AutmVwBtzUgVCzZpLc by smn@l3ib.org
       2025-06-07T20:52:41Z
       
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       @foone don't know if windows task view supports it but one way around this that I've used in the past is to make these type of apps visible on every desktop
       
 (DIR) Post #AutmfD7ARFYIIomfIW by foone@digipres.club
       2025-06-07T20:54:23Z
       
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       @smn good point. I normally try to avoid that because I need the taskbar space, but in this case it's already taking up that space, as a shortcut.
       
 (DIR) Post #AutmnXf1vrEmLGazia by epithumia@mstdn.social
       2025-06-07T20:55:52Z
       
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       @foone Is that the virtual desktops on W10? If so, you can win+tab, then right click your app to have it show on all desktops, which should prevent desktop switching
       
 (DIR) Post #Autms2EQDEjKJXIBTk by anselmschueler@ieji.de
       2025-06-07T20:56:41Z
       
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       @foone I'm fairly sure GNOME also does this. I personally do not usually have multiple instances of apps in multiple workspaces, with the exception of Firefox, which I launch with a hotkey, and I also do not usually click on apps to launch them, but type their names into the global search to launch them, but I believe searching for an app that's already open would also switch workspaces.
       
 (DIR) Post #AutnQpYBLxBj7S7vFI by bloognoo@retro.pizza
       2025-06-07T21:02:49Z
       
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       @foone Could you remote desktop in from a second laptop? That's two computers from one Windows
       
 (DIR) Post #AutpdDs4xDVjvsTDFI by filmroellchen@chaos.social
       2025-06-07T21:27:32Z
       
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       @foone KDE can mark a window as "on all workspaces", which solves this perfectly
       
 (DIR) Post #Autr2lA8PnaANRelLU by NosirrahSec@infosec.exchange
       2025-06-07T21:43:21Z
       
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       @foone I feel this in my bones.I use this feature rarely, because of how my workflows overlap at times.It's so close to being a game changer for me.