Re: Minimized window misbehaviour on resolution change
Posted: 25 Aug 2020 12:03
This has nothing to do with remote sessions per se. It is only that it is experienced heavily by those that use remote desktop connections heavily (home office, sys admins, ...). I guess that it would happen the same way when you would replace your physical monitor while working.
XYplorer is the only application that I noticed which has problems. I am not a Windows expert, but would expect that every application gets some event about the monitor size/resolution change. All applications that are maximized stay maximized already (including the XYplorer) - this is being handled automatically by Windows. However, the applications' drawing area has been enlarged. Now, the relevant questions here, in my view, are:
XYplorer is the only application that I noticed which has problems. I am not a Windows expert, but would expect that every application gets some event about the monitor size/resolution change. All applications that are maximized stay maximized already (including the XYplorer) - this is being handled automatically by Windows. However, the applications' drawing area has been enlarged. Now, the relevant questions here, in my view, are:
- Is there such an event at all? I think that there should be one.
- Can a non threading application react on it?
- If it can not, how about a simple check of monitor data each time the application gets focus? (If that would be implemented, then a user could do a simple Alt-TAB two times (if at all necessary, perhaps only when XYplorer already had focus) to get the thing correct, instead of mousing around.)