Hey so what do you actually usually embed in your decks?

I was thinking it'd be nice if there was a feature added to the setup which would match a command line string to each window title so that if the window title isn't found, the deck load process can launch it automatically. Possibly also an option to enable on a deck-by-deck basis that would shut down the programs when the deck is closed.

This would allow for doing stuff like opening a new Edge/Chrome window for each site you want to embed, or starting a chat client if it isn't running, etc.

I can work around it of course by writing a batch file that actually launches YAL's Deck (I think it's a great name by the way) after checking for the windows I want to embed, but it'd be great if it was a built in feature.

The way I’ve done it for myself is by having a separate browser profile that restores the previously opened windows on startup.

“Open a process and close it later” is more complex than it sounds - e.g. if you try to start up a new Chromium process, it’ll check that there’s one already and will ask it to open a tab instead.