Dr W - Fences Support

Dr W - Fences Support

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Reply to Fences 4.2.3 – Recently, after a restart, all Fences with icons move to the main screen in Fences Stardock Forums

We're continuing to update Version 5 with all back-ported bug fixes, and just released a new major update to it last month. So, I'm not sure I follow. We encourage you to find something that works for you if ours does not, but of course are always hoping to do a good job such that you're feeling our software is worth $10 per 12 months of usage, so that we can continue to reliably fund development. This issue is a complex topic, with a complex solution. It might not seem like i

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Reply to Deleting fences and contents in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi dod, thanks for bringing this up. Indeed- it was a scant used feature (and a destructive one at that), and so it was removed some years ago. The team is always open to hearing about new use cases however. At minimum, an idea that comes to mind might be "shift + click" reveals this option, might be a possibility to bring this back. (Unintuitive, but, perhaps you might have found it?) In particular – we'd love to hear more about you usage, if you'd have the patience to

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Reply to Fences Corner Radius feature req in Fences Stardock Forums

Yup there is a bit of a natural upper limit to the corner radius. If it exceeds the size of half of the size of the titlebar, you'll start to see visual fragments when it is rolled up, or in tabs, etc. @helios.kc sounds good. Feel free to share a screenshot so that we can see how it ended up! Cheers.

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Reply to Error when checking the "Add "Show Fences" icon to my taskbar" box in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi coprof, Could you check to see if these directories exist on your system? %appdata%\Stardock %appdata%\Stardock\Fences If not, could you try creating and seeing if the issue is resolved? If so, we'll have to see about putting additional checks to ensure it exists at this point, as it should have been created by then. Thanks for the help

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Reply to Copy to a Fence in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi Ken, this is a known issue that has come about, that we believe we've gotten resolved. Please refer to the latest beta, which you can download here: Fences6_6.5.2.7-j136-Setup.exe Let us know if this helps, thanks!

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Reply to Desktop icon spacing all messed up in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi Crash28 and others. Per previous posts, we believe we've gotten a handle on this issue. We'll be porting the fix to Fences 5 as well, but the beta link for this in Fences 6 is here: Fences6_6.5.2.7-j136-Setup.exe Hopefully this takes care of it, but if not, continuing to hope for latest debug logs. Thanks</

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Reply to Fences on top of other windows in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi Daishi, Per posts here, the new beta version is available that should resolve this. Please let us know if this takes care of it. Thank you! Link is here: Fences6_6.5.2.7-j136-Setup.exe

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Reply to Fences on top of other windows in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi Daishi! This is a bug actually! We have a fix coming out for that this week. Under certain scenarios, it was possible to click UNDER a Fence like this. This is fixed and we should be able to share a build here on the forums likely tomorrow.

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Reply to Desktop icon's can no longer be placed under rolled up folder portals after upgrade from V3 to V6 in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi Roy thanks again for the suggestion. This has been added for the next version, upcoming, v6.53, which is likely hitting beta later this week. If you've already been refunded, happy to share a link here so that you can give it a try. It's not in the UI, but settings for the option is at: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Fences\Settings (DWORD) AllowAutoArrangeUnderDockedGroups = 1 0 = current default, 1 ignores groups docked to top during auto-arrange, 2 ignores

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Reply to Desktop icon's can no longer be placed under rolled up folder portals after upgrade from V3 to V6 in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi Roy, this is the current intended functionality, but we'd be glad to look more into more fine tuning this algorithm. As is, we improved the algo for making sure icons didn't get covered up, which was a common support problem, but some of it may have gone too far. Could you share more about whether you have auto-arrange on, grid on, etc? Looks like you're hoping for specifically: "docked to edge" rolled up groups would not block out icons? Wondering if you're thinking non-docked-to-

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Reply to Fences Corner Radius feature req in Fences Stardock Forums

Got it! Always happy to learn more about what folks are putting on their desktop, as to work well alongside. Feel free to share the screenshot or name of the widget and we can take a look. We're looking as well at giving some additional background blur and Windows-matching styling options in a future version too, in even those might match some of the stylings of your widget app. Thanks for the context

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Reply to Desktop icon spacing all messed up in Fences Stardock Forums

@ Crash28, we're feeling pretty sure your issue falls into the bucket of an outstanding issue we were seeing with "Large" icons, so, this should be addressed for the next release. Windows was reporting incorrect values to us for Large and better, and we hadn't found a proper source for spacing reading that also was reliable with mid-session changes to DPI. @ iotivedo, this may addre

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Reply to Fences Corner Radius feature req in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi helios, Yes, there is an undocumented switch at "FencesBackgroundCornerRadius". You can set this at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Fences\Settings (DWORD) FencesBackgroundCornerRadius = 4 Press F5 and it should refresh, though and explorer restart may be necessary. We've noticed that the background blur does not seem to obey changed values given it's undocumented state, so we've made note to get that fixed for the next release. Any

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Reply to Desktop icon spacing all messed up in Fences Stardock Forums

A couple pieces here to note: - Unless we're missing it, not seeing any debug log upload. - @rick_summon, recounting, the issue seen is that icons within fence groups get scrunched up sometimes when returning from sleep. Othertimes, it is normal. "Use same spacing" is off, but toggling it on and off seems to resolve. It's unsaid whether the issue happens for the loose desktop icons or only within Fence groups - @crash28, from your posts so far, it you do have "Use

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Reply to Desktop icon spacing all messed up in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi all – just to update status on this, we're going to be revisiting this here. Some context on what makes this a hard problem: - Explorer effectively lies about spacing. When querying, there are many scenarios in which it gives incorrect metrics, so, it needs to be inferred. Basically any change ever of DPI during a session, in particular, makes things whacky, even when returning to the base DPI. This can include simply monitors going to sleep, which under the covers often "c

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