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Lexxy
Lexxy

Reputation: 477

PowerShell move window between desktops

I wannt to move a window between desktops. Something like this:

$app  = Start-Process notepad.exe -PassThru
sleep 1
$hndl = $app.MainWindowHandle

# Move notepad window to desktop №2
[DesktopManager]::MoveToDesktop($hndl, 2) # True

# Get the number of desktop, where the app is located now
[DesktopManager]::GetDesktopWindow($hndl) # 2

#etc...

I have found this and this, but I don't understand how to run it via PowerShell.

Also i have found this...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1477

Answers (1)

Pavel Shishpor
Pavel Shishpor

Reputation: 997

It looks like the thing you ask about was intentionally not allowed by Windows APIs. I see that the pages you linked to use the IVirtualDesktopManager interface but it is not intended to move foreign windows.

Raymond Chen's article Virtual desktops are an end-user window management feature, not a programmatic one about the IVirtualDesktopManager interface says "the only thing you can do is make one window join another window’s virtual desktop... [the interface] is not a general purpose interface for moving windows onto arbitrary virtual desktops."

Also, here (the post is in Russian; the translation is mine) it is said that: "MoveWindowToDesktop works only for windows launched by the process, i.e. it is not possible to move a foreign window with this function."

Upvotes: 2

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