New Feature Suggestions & Tiles Bug

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Groupy

- Ability to tile grouped items (eg up to 4 tiles vertically and horizontally - or downwards and sideways might be better wording).
- Maximize and minimize icons (better than using the grouped application's icons. Maximize wouldn't do anything if the grouped window can't be maximized).

Tiles

- Ability to close all applications open on a page.
- Ability to set pattern timers to open and close pages of applications (eg close Outlook and Teams, then open them every hour. This would help people to concentrate).
- Ability to set CTRL+Win key to show Tiles (if that's possible).

Issue: has anyone had an issue with multiple monitors (2 x 4k and 1 x FHD) whereby programs maximized on the monitor that Tiles is on (the FHD one) go full screen (behind the Tiles sidebar), yet applications maximized on the primary monitor (a 4k one) act like there's a very large sidebar there and only take up part of the screen? The issue is fixed by placing the Tiles sidebar on the second 4k monitor. Strange thing is, that I have almost exactly the same setup on another laptop (just the laptop screen is to the left of the 4k monitors, instead of underneath) and that has no issue. Not a big deal right now as there are several things left to try, but just wondered if it was a known issue.

Fences

- Ability to show fences without showing desktop (ie make them appear above all over windows). They would disappear when clicking on something else (another window) or pressing escape. Showing fences could be a shortcut key, or better yet, an icon pinned to the task bar.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I've confirmed the Tiles bug: it happens when the laptop monitor is set to be below or above one of the main monitors. When the laptop monitor is set to be on the side of the main monitors, the bug does not occur. 

As mentioned in the previous post, my monitor setup is two 4k monitors (display 2 and 3) side by side and one FHD laptop screen (display 1) underneath. The bug causes a large (~3rd of the screen) gap on the primary monitor (display 2) when applications are maximized, despite the Tiles sidebar being on display 1 (which allows applications to be maximized full screen). 

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hello,

I have forwarded your report to the Stardock support team for their review and recommendations.

Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates.

We really do appreciate your feedback, thanks.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks AzDude, hadn't seen your reply. Do you know if your team are any closer to fixing the issue with Tiles? Seems like a fairly straight forward calculation error, but perhaps my bug description could have been clearer. For a better bug report, please see this:

Steps to reproduce: 

1. Ensure Tiles is running with the 'Keep bar visible when windows are maximized' setting ticked.
2. Have at least two monitors, with monitor 1 at the top and monitor 2 at the bottom (below monitor 1). (This needs to be set up in Windows display settings, it doesn't matter how the monitors are physically arranged).
3. Set Tiles to be on monitor 2 (the bottom one - bug doesn't occur if it's set on the top one).
4. Maximize application windows on both monitor 1 and 2.

Expected:
- Monitor 1's application is fully maximized across the screen.
- Monitor 2's application is maximized, but not fully, leaving a space for Tiles.

Actual:
- Monitor 1's application is partially maximized, with a large gap at the size (as if Tiles were on that monitor).
- Monitor 2's application is full maximized, which is partially hidden under Tiles.