Translucent Background not working with multi monitor setup

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Translucent Background not working with multi monitor setup 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

What version of Fences?
What resolution and what DPI of each please?
Are you using some software to span the wallpaper across monitors?

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I have the same problem. Using Fences 3.0.3 on Windows 10 with a two monitor setup. Both monitors are 1920x1080 dpi. No special software, just Windows 10 with the desktop set to "Extend" and a picture set to "Fill", which spreads it across both monitors (the pictures I use are panoramic, so they are wide enough for this to look good). If I turn on translucency, the blurred image is clearly being pulled from the wrong part of the background picture.

Possibly relevant: the two monitors are "monitor 2" and "monitor 3" in the Windows display settings. Monitor 1 is the built-in display on my laptop, which is set to "Disconnected" when I'm plugged into the monitors. Monitor 2 is set as the Windows "Main display", but all of my Fences are on Monitor 3.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Noxsc, reply 2

I have the same problem. Using Fences 3.0.3 on Windows 10 with a two monitor setup. Both monitors are 1920x1080 dpi. No special software, just Windows 10 with the desktop set to "Extend" and a picture set to "Fill", which spreads it across both monitors (the pictures I use are panoramic, so they are wide enough for this to look good). If I turn on translucency, the blurred image is clearly being pulled from the wrong part of the background picture.

Possibly relevant: the two monitors are "monitor 2" and "monitor 3" in the Windows display settings. Monitor 1 is the built-in display on my laptop, which is set to "Disconnected" when I'm plugged into the monitors. Monitor 2 is set as the Windows "Main display", but all of my Fences are on Monitor 3.
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Can you try with the 3.0.4 beta?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Downloading updates is not working for me right now; I have another post on this forum about that.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I now have 3.0.4.12 installed. The problem is the same: the "translucent" feature is using the wrong part of the image.

Both monitors appear to be displaying the same part of the image through the "translucent" filter: they are displaying approximately 75% of the total panoramic image, repeated on both monitors. The portion used is from the right side of the image, i.e. the leftmost quarter of the image isn't used, and the remaining three quarters of the total panoramic image is squashed to the width of one monitor and repeated on both, but only in the "translucent" backgrounds of the fences.

As mentioned above, I'm using a panoramic image spread across two monitors (Windows 10 desktop "extended" across both). It's actually a three-screen system since the computer is a laptop but its screen is set to "disabled". Windows 10 correctly spreads the desktop and the background image across the remaining two monitors.