workspace support for MS Windows 10

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Split from #774, originally recorded in #776.

Windows 10 apparently has support for virtual desktops, we should detect changes and call suspend / resume.

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Links:

• API for Windows 10 virtual desktops
• Altering Win10 virtual desktop behavior: Programmatic access to the virtual desktop feature is very limited, Microsoft has only exposed the IVirtualDesktopManager COM interface. (COM, oh joy..)
• Virtual Desktop Switching in Windows 10

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2020-04-07 11:05:05: stdedos commented

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There is also #2081's

As reported in #2029#comment:25, Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Enhancer - Home must contain the API calls we need to hook into to be able to detect the current desktop / which desktop a window is on.

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Additionally, when

2020-04-07 12:12:02,569 screen size change: will reinit the windows
it would be nice if you made an effort to re-init the windows on the desktop they were originally

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• MSDN: IVirtualDesktopManager

• SO: IVirtualDesktopManager

• pyvda has all the functions we need

• Virtual Desktop Switching in Windows 10

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2020-11-19 10:00:38: TijZwa commented

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I've build a wrapper around Xpra to obtain this functionality.

For those who are interested:
I use CreateDesktop of User32.dll.
More information on this topic: https://codingvision.net/c-create-secure-desktop-anti-keylogger & https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-createdesktopa

My workflow:

1. Call CreateDesktop
2. Remove all open windows/hooks from the thread.
   In my case, I use Eto.Forms, so I just call Application.Dispose() to make sure all the handles are gone.
3. Call SetThreadDesktop (Warning from the MS docs: The SetThreadDesktop function will fail if the calling thread has any windows or hooks on its current desktop)
   This is only necessary if you want to create forms on the desktop. You can skip this step if you only want to launch Xpra.
4. Call SwitchDesktop (wich makes the desktop visible)
5. Start Xpra.exe on the newly created virtual desktop, using the struct STARTUPINFO, property lpDesktop)
6. Wait for the Xpra proces to exit, then switch back to the original desktop.

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2020-11-19 10:07:27: TijZwa uploaded file 1442_desktop.cs (2.9 KiB)

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2020-11-19 10:07:37: TijZwa uploaded file 1442_simple_example.cs (1.2 KiB)

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2020-11-19 10:08:24: TijZwa commented

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Added a very simple example and the class exposing the used functions.

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S'more Virtual Desktop discussions: sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie#1326

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Looks like this library does exactly what we want: https://github.com/kdschlosser/pyWinVirtualDesktop

Or perhaps: https://github.com/ipaleka/arrangeit/blob/master/arrangeit/windows/vdi.py

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Implemented using pyvda, see https://github.com/orgs/Xpra-org/discussions/4055#discussioncomment-7738961.

Caused #4109 - so there may still be something missing in the EXE installer? Something ctypes or com related?

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This is now disabled to prevent crashes: #4429 (comment)

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Could this be related?
mhammond/pywin32#2415
And the issue may also have been resolved in mrob95/pyvda#52

Worth trying again.