Feature: virtual desktop sensor and command #12
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This PR adds sensor and command requested via LAB02-Research/HASS.Agent#263 .
Due to how "nicely" microsoft is handling virtual desktops the best way to go was with library dedicated for this purpose (end even this can break when windows updates). I've decided to go with https://github.com/Grabacr07/VirtualDesktop for the following reasons:
This library offers more functionality that what has been added in this PR and due to this, requires initialisation (at least first call) from UI/STA thread.
The library itself doesn't provide virtual desktop names for Windows 10, in this case they are retrieved from registry (only if the virtual desktop has been renamed to something custom by the user)
PR itself adds/changes following things:
@LAB02-Admin
I've bumped the project target/supported versions because the feature set of HASS.Agent it wouldn't allow it to be fully functional on anything below Windows 10. Please ping me if you'd like me to revert this :)
Tested on Windows 10 10.0.19042.
Example command to switch the virtual desktop: