Minor WSL GUI annoyance

Minor annoyance: For some reason, WSL GUI windows like to hide themselves.  I'm not sure why.

I see this all the time on my Windows 10 work laptop, where I use WSL extensively.  It usually happens after my laptop has gone to sleep.  I come back in the morning, log in, and all of my open WSL gVim windows are just gone.  The processes are still running, they're just not displayed and they're MIA from the Windows taskbar.

Fortunately, this is easily fixed by just starting a new WSL GUI app.  So I generally just pop up my Windows Terminal and start a new gVim instance, and then the running instances pop back into existence and they're fine until the system sleeps again.

I have no idea why that happens, nor if it's specific to Windows 10 or anything else.  It's just one of those things that's annoying but not a big deal.  Rant over.

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