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Hi, AltTab reports windows that exist here. Why Microsoft RDP creates these, I'm not sure, but the windows exist. Please report this issue to Microsoft RDP customer service |
@40P3 what's a window in the first place? A window on macOS is when software uses the APIs provided by macOS to spawn a window. For most apps, the APIs are in When they call that code, they may be creating what you would consider a window. But they could also create a panel, a HUD, a dialog, etc. They could also make the window invisible, 1px by 1px, transparent, off-screen, etc. It's common for messy applications, like Steam, IntelliJ, or here Microsoft RDP, to use What you're seeing is AltTab reporting windows that actually exist, but are "hacks" used by Microsoft RDP to achieve something. The windows are there, but not necessarily visible to you as standard windows. AltTab already filters out some windows like very small, dialogs, HUDs, etc. But there is a limit to what we can guess the window is for. Here these windows are reporting to the OS that they are actual user windows. Thus AltTab does its job and lists them. Microsoft should either remove these hacks, or report them as non-standard windows, so AltTab will ignore them. I hope it helps |
I ment window as an "application window" selectable with alt tabs. Some apps by default got only one window but as you said there might be different hidden windows I'm not sure, however those hidden windows/app windows aren't visible without AltTab active, so you might be right but I can't tell, all I see is a lot of crazy small nonexisting "windows" on alt tab but they aren't doing anything. Interesting that you mention steam that was always working nice to me with alt tab but maybe then you created some "fix" on alt-tab app for such window management? Would be good if you could do a workaround for RDP as well. |
Yes Steam has heavy workarounds in AltTab to be usable. Again, because they created windows poorly. They use windows to implement dropdown menus, as a concrete example. You can imagine that it would be nonsense for an AltTab user to show a Steam dropdown menu as a window. Yet they use the APIs to create windows to do it. i don't have a licence for MS RDP so i can't develop a workaround like Steam. I also don't have time these days for this, unfortunately #1179 |
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