Naming virtual desktops

[alexranaldi]

It would be neat if we could name or alias the virtual desktops, and have a set of them created with certain names at boot time.

[Beej126]

wow only 4 short years later ;) and Windows 10 20H1 aka 20.04 just provided this feature in the Win+Tab view... sure would be nice now to see this name inside the notification tray icon =)

[bill-dev-978]

I would like to do this outside of updating windows (as it is outside of my control - organization level)

[Beej126]

@bill-dev-978 makes a good point... if this tool can extend to support display names instead of just a virtual desktop index number, then i no longer care what Windows does natively =)

i took a quick peek at this code and no surprise, the tray icon flips through 9 static icons to show desktop #'s 1-9... which naturally fits in the limited space available but not conducive to showing longer textual names... brainstorming out loud, maybe i'd like something more along the lines of the "address toolbar" that comes with Windows (screenshot attached)... that kind of a dropdown right there seems like a nice dual purpose of showing currently selected and as well as selecting another =) looks like this kind of UI gets implemented via "IDeskband2" interface... and looks like we have at least one C# sample code =)

[bill-dev-978]

Sounds like a good compromise

On Apr 27, 2020, at 4:54 PM, Beej [email protected] wrote:

 @bill-dev-978 makes a good point... if this tool can extend to support display names instead of just a virtual desktop index number, then i no longer care what Windows does natively =)

i took a quick peek at this code and no surprise, the tray icon flips through 9 static icons to show desktop #'s 1-9... which naturally fits in the limited space available but not conducive to showing longer textual names... brainstorming out loud, maybe i'd like something more along the lines of the "address toolbar" that comes with Windows (screenshot attached)... that kind of a dropdown right there seems like a nice dual purpose of showing currently selected and as well as selecting another =) looks like this kind of UI gets implemented via "IDeskband2" interface... and looks like we have at least one C# sample code =)

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[Beej126]

i implemented the hack i wanted here and am very pleased, thanks to the libraries doing all the hard work =)... sorta dare anybody to get it installed, not easy at the intersection of COM and new .net assemblies, even under net472 vs core

[lutz]

Currently with windows 2004 it is possible to get (not set) the name for the current virtual desktop. I wrote about it in a other github project.