ObjectDock steals chunk of Desktop

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I have a newly installed 1.3 version, and it is stealing a chunk of my desktop. One autohiding dock blanks out a little piece of the desktop in the space the dock occupies when it's not hidden. I can't display any windows there, or put any icons there. It only seems to happen AFTER I've made modifications to the dock. The other autohiding dock, on a second monitor, reserves a wide strip of the desktop and blanks it out - it extends about 1/8 of the entire desktop, across the full width of the screen. These problems pretty much make the program unusable, unless I can fix them. Anyone know what I should do?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
OK, this only happens when the Z ordering is set to always on top. WHen it's normal Z-ordering, then the little piece of stolen desktop comes back after I click on an open window that's occupying it.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Right-click your dock and select "dock settings". Click "positioning" on the left, and make sure that "reserve edge of screen" isn't checked.

That's the only thing I can think of that would cause the problem you're describing.

Also, I think you'll need to check this for each dock that you have.
Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nope, I already tried that setting (unchecking 'reserve edge of screen'). I think there's something wrong with the layers on my desktop, that may possibly have something to do with my video card. Yahoo! widgets aren't working properly, either. Each time I try to click on one to move it the widget crashes (I can still close it and change its properties, but the widget itself freezes and won't be moved). I'm just not sure how to fix this. Aggravating.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I had a similar problem yesterday. Unloading and restarting ObjectDock, took care of it.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
noetus, are you still having this same problem?
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes, I'm still having the problem, though I've figured out the culprit. It's a program called Actual Title Buttons (from actualtools.com), the latest version (4.2), which as it turns out conflicts with a number of programs - Yahoo Widgets, Eudora, and Objectdock among them. When I stop that program, all the problems go away. I've written to actualtools.com about it.

Tech support made the lame suggestion that I had left that box unchecked, 'reserve screen space' or whatever, which wasn't it (i knew that) and also suggested upgrading to version 1.5 (I had 1.3) which didn't make any difference at all. Still, not their fault that some other program is messing things up. Still, when two programs conflict, it's difficult to tell which programmer of which program is at fault. Could be either, or even both, I suppose.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Oh, I am sorry to hear that, although I am glad you figured out what was the cause. Please let me know if there is anything else we can help with on our end.

Thanks,
Jenny
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
There is, maybe - see my other post about my DOck being very jerky

https://forums.stardock.com/?forumid=176&aid=136384

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Got it. I will send this directly over to technical support, and they will get back with you shortly.

Thanks!
Jenny
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I am running 4 Docks (two on each of two monitors) plus a tabbed Dock - so 5 in total.