Re: [Condor-users] USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP broken with Win 7 ???

["John (TJ) Knoeller" <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Part of the new Vista/Win7 security features is the prohibit services 
from sharing a desktop with users.   It is no longer possible on 
Vista/Win7 to see the job's window on the same desktop as programs that 
were started interactively.   Services now have their own desktop.

So to see the window from the Condor job, you have to configure 
Vista/Win7 to detect interactive services, and then it will give you a 
way to switch desktops.    The instructions on how to enable interactive 
services are here 
http://ben.versionzero.org/wiki/Condor_Enable_Visible_Desktop_on_Vista

Once you have done that, when a Condor job starts, Windows will pop up a 
message box asking if you want to switch to
the services desktop, where the Condor job's window is.

-tj


On 11/4/2011 5:17 AM, Smith, Ian wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I've noticed recently that USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP seems to
> have stopped working with Windows 7 using Condor 7.6.2.
> Has anybody else seen this or know of a workaround/fix.
>
> I find this a really useful feature for debugging - particularly
> for MATLAB apps which have annoying tendency to display
> error messages in pop windows rather than writing to stderr.
>
> cheers,
>
> -ian.
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Dr Ian C. Smith,
> Advanced Research Computing,
> University of Liverpool.
>
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