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#10 Firefox windows appear on every desktop
After a reboot of windows 11 (to install a Brother printer driver), VirtuaWin now displays every application window on every desktop. Changing to a new desktop shows every window, even though the VirtuaWin tool says the application windows are on different desktops.
Hi Steve and thanks for the reports.
Problem here is that Win11 have never been tested by anyone before as far as I know, and I do not have access to any win11 setup myself so makes this really impossible to support.
Clearly MS have made some changes that makes VirtuaWin incompatible then, and I honeslty thought that they would have made a worthy replacement for VirtuaWin by now, since it is over 25 years since I started to code on this thing.
It's good to know you're still around! I've relied on VirtuaWin to keep my sanity while working in the Microsoft arena. I'm sorry to hear that you're not keeping up with Win 11. I was forced into it when my old laptop died, and that's the only OS that HP installs on their machines now.
By the way, when I asked Google Bard for a multi-desktop layer on top of Win 11, It recommended several (paid) solutions. I asked why it didn't recommend VirtuaWin. It apologized and said that it existed, but development was inactive for year.
I haven't investigated to paid solutions, because that would mean measuring where they (likely) fall short of the expectations set by VirtuaWin.
Last edit: Steve Kelem 2024-02-17
By the way, today windows are appearing on separate desktops! Yesterday I tried stopping and restarting VirtuaWin with no effect. I didn't think of restarting Win 11. That must have reset whatever incompatibility was haunting my machine yesterday.
Cheers!