Virtual Desktop 1.99d(rc).002 - cannot add more than 3 desktops

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 by Kent Allison | Discussion:

Does anyone one else have this problem with the latest beta? Have done an uninstall/reboot etc.

3 desktops is better than only one, but is not really enough!

Windows XP Pro + SP2 + latest hotfixes.

Cheers, Kent
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do not use this name
Reply #41 Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:32 PM
I have installed the newest build (1.99e) and it seems more robust to losing applications from virtual desktops. However, they still do disappear. Try this: make 4 desktops and put outlook, solitare, firefox and object edit on one each. Now switch back and forth among the desktops. At some point, solitare will disappear. I've duplicated it several times. Now solitare disappearing isn't a big deal, but on my work machine serious stuff (like Word or Outlook) do go away, and that makes virtual desktops a non-starter for me there.

kra
Reply #42 Friday, September 30, 2005 1:18 AM
Hi "do not use this name". I'm afraid I couldn't reproduce it on my laptop that way. I've been using build e all day and haven't had a window disappear yet but that doesn't mean anything as I can go for days without it happening. How fast is your PCs CPU - maybe it's related to hardware?

BTW - did you notice that I started a new thread for this problem Link. I'll copy the last 2 entries from this thread into it...

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Chris TH
Reply #43 Sunday, October 9, 2005 8:14 PM
Prior to that they all played happily together. Has some change in the BandVWM updates occurred that may have triggered this behaviour with SysStats?

I thought I'd ask before running off to Judge (SysStats author).


So I've put in a post at the SysStats forum to see if there's any possible reason for this behaviour from that side.

However, it doesn't really explain why the older versions of BandVWM worked fine and the problem only surfaced with the newer (last two) versions. Any comments on this?

JMB1984
Reply #44 Monday, October 10, 2005 12:26 PM

Hi Chris,


Well lets see. I added more sophisticated "hang-checking"; part of that timeout-sends a WM_NULL message to the window. Windows are not supposed to repond to a WM_NULL message by its definition, so hopfully his windows are not. That's all the correspondance that goes on however. Other than that, it's property setting and deferwindowpos. This does happen with the VWM set to each of the modes right?Hopfully Judge can shed something of light on this.


Chris TH
Reply #45 Monday, October 10, 2005 6:30 PM
Yes, it does happen in both modes. Even just the action of changing the mode caused the dialogs to pop up (after clicking OK/Apply)!

Hopfully Judge can shed something of light on this.


I hope so too

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