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Is it possible to run an application as "Desktop"?

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kartal:
Thanks but that is totally opposite of what I am looking for. I am not looking for some minimizer at all. I am looking for a way to show an particular application when I minimize all. This one seems to minimize everything else except the active window which is useless to me because in my case the application I will want would be somewhere within "inactive" applications that needs to show up when I minimize all.  I want this app to stay on top of the desktop so anytime I go to-open-show desktop I want to see this particular application not the desktop. I need this application to cover the desktop.



here's what might be an answer

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1113.0
-cmpm (March 01, 2009, 08:45 PM)
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kartal:
Also this kind of applications(minimizeother) seem to mess up windows states(size, place, maximized etc) so I hate to go back and try to restore their original states, considering that I am running at least 20 applications at the same time this is a huge task.

kartal:
Scancode, that seems to be a good start for me. This one puts spesific application on to the desktop. THere are couple problems with it thou.

1-) If the user messes up the order of windows or change the state of that particular app it wont work, one needs to run PinToDesktop again and again.

2-) The Window name and ahk class name is not enough in some cases. For example I just tried with Thunderbird and both thunderbird and firefox has same class name. Secondly The window title of Thunderbird changes based on which email inbox you have open.

cmpm:
found two with exclude features
not sure about restoring to states before minimize
both from lifehacker

http://lifehacker.com/software/downloads/lifehacker-code-swept-away-windows-255055.php

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2007/11/01/minimize_windows_to_thumbnails.html

SmartClose does a good job of restoring states but no exclude options and it closes and not minimize.

http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/

scancode:
1-) If the user messes up the order of windows or change the state of that particular app it wont work, one needs to run PinToDesktop again and again.
-kartal (March 01, 2009, 10:29 PM)
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I'll add a timer :-)

2-) The Window name and ahk class name is not enough in some cases. For example I just tried with Thunderbird and both thunderbird and firefox has same class name. Secondly The window title of Thunderbird changes based on which email inbox you have open.
-kartal (March 01, 2009, 10:29 PM)
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Same as #1, only needs to get the hwnd once.

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