Virtual desktops in Wox

Success Criteria

Able to switch virtual desktops from WoX

P/Invoke via Python

I can switch virtual desktops from python app.

Access GetDesktopNumber from FFI to load dll. https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html

I can switch virtual desktops from wox

My plugin:

http://github.com/idvorkin/wox-desktop-switcher/

However, there’s an issue where wox crashes tracked:

https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/issues/2294

Tasks

Build Virtual Desktop Accesor

https://github.com/Ciantic/VirtualDesktopAccessor There is a C++ Bridge DLL that reexposes a nicer interface to the COM APIs. Needs VS 2017 with C++ DLL to build and use.

Can’t build stdafx.h

This occurs if you clone using wsl. Clone from windows and it works.

Random calls in the API fail

Don’t care - ChangeDesktop is the only API I need to use, so will use that.

Reference

https://github.com/sdias/win-10-virtual-desktop-enhancer