VSCode windows not staying in their respective virtual desktops on app restart

Issue Type: Bug

Open an arbitrary number of VSCode windows. Split them randomly among a number of virtual desktops. Restart VSCode All windows open in the same virtual desktop

I’m on W11 (can’t recall wether this happened in W10 too). Quite annoying, specially because the new W11 virtual desktop UI lags tremendously on my PC, meaning each time I have to re-move the VSCode windows to the virtual desktops I want them in I can spend 5 minutes doing so.

A plethora of other apps follow the expected behaviour: Sublime text Edge RStudio Visual Studio etc

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.67.0-insider (f050b17dacedba13962244b13c70084a473d08f7, 2022-04-06T05:15:56.751Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22000 Restricted Mode: No Remote OS version: Linux x64 5.4.0-1059-aws

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel® Core™ i5-1035G1 CPU @ 1.00GHz (8 x 1190)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on oop_rasterization: enabled opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_renderer: enabled_on video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	11.70GB (1.86GB free)
Process Argv	–crash-reporter-id 4285aea8-8024-49ba-97f2-9d60622a70f0
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Item	Value
Remote	SSH: AWS
OS	Linux x64 5.4.0-1059-aws
CPUs	Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8259CL CPU @ 2.50GHz (8 x 3195)
Memory (System)	30.91GB (0.69GB free)
VM	0%

Extensions (11)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
jupyter-keymap	ms-	1.0.0
remote-containers	ms-	0.232.3
remote-ssh	ms-	0.78.0
remote-ssh-edit	ms-	0.80.0
remote-wsl	ms-	0.66.0
vscode-remote-extensionpack	ms-	0.21.0
python	ms-	2022.4.0
vscode-pylance	ms-	2022.3.4
jupyter	ms-	2022.4.1000971004
jupyter-keymap	ms-	1.0.0
jupyter-renderers	ms-	1.0.6

(2 theme extensions excluded)

A/B Experiments

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pynewfile477:30451556

[zeel01]

This issue has been a major reason for me to avoid installing new updates more than once a month. With many windows across multiple virtual desktops, closing and restoring everything all at once is a real pain. I have to take stock of what windows I have where before letting VS Code reload, so that I can then manually move the windows back to the appropriate desktops.

I’ll also add to the list: Google Chrome does this correctly.

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