Hi, all
No, not the virtual desktops. I'm talking about something like a window manager. Where I can have multiple apps open in that window alone. Here's the gist of it, I have multiple programs running on a VPN on VMware right now. The vmware window is on Desktop #3 (the virtual desktop) so it doesn't get too cluttered. I currently have several discord bots running, game servers, other apps, etc that adds up to about 20 - 30 windows. I use Desktop #1 and #2 for general use, work, gaming and stuff so I was looking for something that wouldn't pop me up about 20 - 30 windows when I switch to desktop #3 but rather just 1 window where I can select which app I want to view.
What I do like about VMWare however is that I can have all those windows open all at the same time, if I have to restart or turn off my pc for a while, I can just suspend the process, resume it then it automatically connects to the VPN and all apps are back on. I just minimize it after that, but it takes up about 30 - 40% CPU (That's VMware alone). When I don't use my PC, asleep or away, I don't use VMware just normal windows virtual desktop with all apps + VPN open and the whole system barely even uses 20%.
It'd be helpful to have a sandboxie / vmware like software where I can run VPN only for those specific apps since I need CPU power when I'm about to render my work.. I've tried using sandboxie to run my VPN but don't think that works because of the TAP driver that needs to be there too. Sandboxie is more of it just running the apps but still not the "window manager" I'm looking for. I'd probably just let the window manager thing slide if I can get the VPN working on it though.
I'll take a look at Shadow Defender in the meantime. Thanks for the answers!