@jakobrosin interesting. I tried it with Narrator and that gives the same output as NVDA so it looks like JAWS is doing its own thing there

@FreakyFwoof you can, yes. I've mostly seen this aggressive throttling in browsers and some chrome apps, but of course, not all of them. Slack and Discord don't care if you don't look at them all day, the new WhatsApp seems to not love being focused after you leave it for a while at least in my tests. It's wonderfully inconsistent as we're coming to get used to from win11

@FreakyFwoof yeah that gets interesting because I believe once you switch away from the virtual desktop you are now not "looking" at it which i believe often gets interpreted as "you're not using this, let's save resources". But yes, that can be another way to isolate it if that's what you're trying to do

Obligatory "why would you care about this when you're blind" follow-up:

- Windows that hang out where you could theoretically see them are less likely to get backgrounded, this is particularly useful for browser tabs that go to sleep otherwise
- If you're sharing your screen in a meeting it can be helpful to only share a screen that has what you want on it, same goes for streams or screenshots although I'm not sure how to accessibly screenshot a specific screen
- Isolating apps to their own display can sometimes help with OCR results if there's a bunch of apps overlapping or getting in each other's way somehow

@FreakyFwoof This is actually a virtual display so that wouldn't really work but I ended up doing something similar by screenshotting a display capture in OBS. I was considering this for streaming multiple apps without streaming my entire display and for that purpose I'd need something a bit more speedy, but this does work in a pinch and is particularly helpful when doing live presentations/demos, as you can use win+alt+left/right to move the focused window from one display to another, and win+arrows to snap it to a portion of that display which lets you, say, put a web browser and a powerpoint/music program side by side. I know you generally do stuff on the mac when you demo but figured it might be useful nonetheless if you ever don't

Looks like no, not really. Windows tries, but in my specific build at least when I move an app from, say, Display 1 to display 2, it helpfully tells me that the window is now on "display 1 2".
Ahh yes ... display 1 2, the audio engineer display #testingOneTwo #thisClearlyWasNotTested
Maybe the AI said it would be ok? #slop

Is there a reliable way with #nvdasr to figure out what display an app is running on and to move a window to another display? #screenReader @NVAccess