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Move running apps to another desktop?

Open sprite-1 opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

Will you eventually add the feature to move already running apps to a different desktop?

sprite-1 avatar Mar 26 '18 16:03 sprite-1

I'm unsure how this would be very usable from a command-line perspective. Allowing a PID instead of a path to an exe could be a solution, but it would require some batch/powershell scripting to make it work for individual programs.

Did you have any ideas on how you would want such a feature to function?

eksime avatar Jul 22 '18 16:07 eksime

On mac0S you can set an application to always open in a certain virtual desktop no matter how you launch it (either from a shortcut or opening it directly)

I thought it would be useful in a similar case because I personally don't open apps the same way every time. For example, I can open the command prompt from the pinned icon on the toolbar or I can pull up the Run... prompt and type cmd and open it from there. Or I can search for it in the start menu.

The reason I asked for this feature is so I can monitor my running processes and as soon as I identify them, move them to the appropriate virtual desktop that I want them to be in. (E.g. photo editing software all open on desktop 2, programming IDEs and related on desktop 3, music production software all go to desktop 4. Etc.

It's to make it not reliant on a single point of entry: the modified shortcut that tells VDesk where to open the apps at. If it can change it at runtime, I can just make a manager of sorts that will deal with the moving around of software to their corresponding v desktops.

sprite-1 avatar Jul 23 '18 18:07 sprite-1