Dr W - Fences Support

Dr W - Fences Support

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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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Reply to Fences 6: Can It Hide on Screen Sides & Auto-Scale Fences by Icon Count? in Fences Stardock Forums

Currently no to left & right, but it is something the team is evaluating for the future. If added, the titlebar would move to the opposite edge with a rotated title. We’re thinking the titlebar would mostly likely only be able to be positioned on left/right if docked to left/right edge. Not sure why you mean by scale exactly, so more or less auto-fit height? One issue with that is collisions with other groups, but perhaps “expand up to space availa

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Reply to Removal of positions on a per screen-resolution basis feature? in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi scribbins, Ya know this isn’t something we considered, but you raise a good point! This feature is now “always on”, having now gotten years of battle testing and refinement. But the removal of the config leaves out important information that this is how it behaves. Correct starting with Fences 5.5, it intelligently remembers layouts per config basis. I’ve passed word to the development team so that they can figure out a way to get that information ba

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Reply to Fonts in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi kabrewer42, could you paste in a screenshot of the issue, and your monitor’s DPI? Hoping to see this and verify if it is or isn’t matching the expected behavior. Thank you You can also accomplish this by going to About → Troubleshooting → Create error report package, and it will contain some extra info for us

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Reply to Issue when switching virtual desktops in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi, we received your log but are not seeing the issue. Is there a name of a specific icon that fell out a group during the change? If none happened during this capture, with Advanced Logging still on, reproduce and let us know what icon to look for in the logs. It should be pretty explicit that the icon has exited the group in the log, so we're hoping to see it! Let us know if this should already appear.

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Reply to Icon spacing wrong after Windows 11 start in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi Frayyack, would you mind flipping on advanced logging and sending us in a log? We’d like to take a look. (1) “Enable advanced logging” from Troubleshooting menu in About (2) Reboot to reproduce issue (3) “Fix” the issue with checkbox as stated (4) “Create error report” from that same menu. Hope to get you a build to test possible fixed along with the info. Thank you!

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Reply to Issue when switching virtual desktops in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi, to add to the questions above, yes debug logs might also help. You’ll have to enable advanced logging and reproduce, but upon doing so and describing what happened, it should help. (1) “Enable advanced logging” from Troubleshooting menu in About (2) Reboot or log off/on (3) Reproduce (4) “Create error report package” from Troubleshooting menu, and describe one or more icons that moved in the space provided or bac

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Reply to Fences crashes very often in Fences Stardock Forums

Hi Tibor, you’re able to access Fences’ settings, could you go to About, then from Troubleshooting menu, choose “Enable Advanced Logging”, reboot, recreate the issue, and then submit a report using “Create Error Package”? If the crash is one that is related to us, this will allow us to see what’s going on, and likely as well, will give hints even if it’s not us. Thank you

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Reply to Fences Configuration Parser Error in Fences Stardock Forums

Thanks for posting. It sounds like dot net is failing to parse: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\config\machine.config So it might be worth looking into what types of general dot net errors come from such a thing. It does look like dot net itself is misconfigured based on what is shown there

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Reply to Persistent Windows 11 conflict - I want a refund! in Fences Stardock Forums

Just to add in here. Fences does not use MSI. Another application generated this. Likewise, echoing that uninstalling, rebooting, and verifying files are not in C:\program files (x86)\Stardock\Fences will ensure it is not part of the issue. The app does not have program files in any location other than this location, and it does not embed in the system. Should these files be removed, the app is gone.

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Reply to Fences 6 - After Updating to Fences 6.46: Fences flicker and the icons within Fences are not visible (Possible Refresh rate/gsync issue) in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Hi Bryan, Icons generally appear unselected while the W11 RClick menu is open. That is – when you RClick, Windows itself has an issue where icons don't appear selected while the menu is open. If you hit escape after R clicking, do the icons go back to appearing selected? The "jumping" part we're able to reproduce, and will look into

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