I run an AWS Workspace in full screen view, and I have my various windows and applications spread across two large monitors in Extended Desktop mode. Works just fine. But how do I toggle over to my local desktop using some automated code or script? Alt-Tab
merely cycles between open windows in the WS desktop, so this AutoHotKey command won't work:
SendKeys !{tab}
I know I can press the AWS WS hotkey Ctrl-Alt-Enter
to quickly exit full-screen view and put me in a window. But even still, Alt-Tab
merely cycles between open windows in the WS window and not among the local open windows. How do I jump out of that window by keyboard?
And, even worse, when I go back to full screen view, all my open windows have been re-arranged to fit in the window view. Full screen apps are still full screen-ish, but locked in at the restored window size. I have to click the restore button twice - once to restore down from the pseudo-full screen, and again to go back to true full screen. I'd rather toggle out while remaining in full-screen. Can it be done?
So, is there a hotkey I can script with AutoHotKey or some other facility? Or anything I can program in VB, JS or AHK to do that? I also note that the WS window does not respond to the normal Windows hotkeys (like Alt-Space
for the control bar, Win+Arrow
to snap/maximize windows, etc.) so I'm just looking how to get started.
TIA
EDITS: Because this question was closed as not being "code" related, I have clarified throughout that I am looking for a solution using code. Thank goodness it is a trivial matter to take the many helpful suggestions collected here and convert them easily to code in the language of your choice, just as I show above in the AutoHotKey code example that doesn't work. And the scripting of my "kludge" works if not an ideal coding solution:
CoordMode, Mouse, Screen
MouseMove 3199, 1060
Sleep, 250
Click
Send !{tab}`
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