When the focus is one the desktop itself, the auxilliary mouse buttons (i.e. additional buttons on the sides of the mouse) switch desktops. I have Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical, which has an additional button on the left side and an additional button on the right side. The former switches to the pr...

I notice that when I open application windows by double-clicking their icon in the system tray, typically a copy of the application window is opened on the current destop. This should probably be expected. However, with Skype this does not work well. Initially it appears to work the same way it work...

I'm not sure it is exactly the same problem, but a similar behavior is easily reproducible if a second instance of Notepad is launched on a different desktop. The sequence of steps is as follows 1. On the first desktop run Notepad. It becomes the active window. 2. Switch to another desktop (using Al...