Are you using DisplayFusion or other monitor management software (NVidia surround would be another).

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

And if you cleanboot under a new Win admin account?

https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq#cleanboot

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

Hi, I bought Fences 4 recently and noticed an annoying bug overall with translucent background, in Fences 3 (trial) I had not that bug or at least I had not with just 2 monitors.

Then when I added the third monitor (in a L configuration the new one is up over the primary monitor and there is another one on the right of the primary), this bug showed up, the background is not translucent at all in my current monitor configuration as shown in this image: (https://imgur.com/a/LIm7LRy), where all the fences are in monitor 1.

But after one and half day trying to change something I discovered that this depends on monitor config and if I move the monitors in the config like this: (https://imgur.com/a/9FLGEH1), as is shown and I hope it's visible, the translucent background works just fine, how can I fix this without actually moving monitor configuration? (because they are arranged just like the first image shows irl.

I have actually Fences 4.0.0.3 and Windows 11

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. You monitor/s resolution and scaling please.

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Please try purge and reinstall steps as mentioned here: [link]. Just make sure to redownload the latest version from your account. Reboot after the purged. Reinstall, and Reboot again after the installation. Retest it. Report back here.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

I'm having this same problem. I want the labels to stay at the top. I was happy with Fences 3, but I just updated to Fences 4 because I updated to Windows 11 and I wanted to make sure I was running the best version for compatibility.

Hello all...

I am combing through this thread currently to reduce it to specific issues with this version of Fences.  What will be pruned are things like:

• Feature requests
• Language requests
• Installer \ Object Destkop accessibility
• Issues that work for most but not a very few (some exceptions will be made)
• Issues that were reported but resolved later (reboot, reinstall, settings change) in thread

What is left I will be posting results of some internal testing with a report that an internal ticket was created or asking for more information.

Thanks for all the feedback and support thus far.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

Praying to god that you guys plan to work on this further, cause I'm coming across so many problems I didn't have with Fences 3.

Running Win 10 Pro, 19044.1586 21H2.

- With "Roll-Up Fences" enabled, moving an open fences to the top or bottom of the desktop automatically rolls it up. Please add a toggle for this specific behavior.

- Fences at the top or bottom of the desktop have this "bounce"/"raise up" effect when moused over. This makes it impossible to align fences, because that newly added height from the raised effect gets subtracted when it "retracts".

Mouse on:

Mouse off:

Because of this, I can't get rid of these gaps.

- Fences at the top will move their banners to the bottom of the fences. No way of toggling this off. You can see this in my prior screenshot.

I'm honestly surprised at how many bugs and lack of polish F4 has compared to F3. I've been a paid Fences 3 user since June 2016, and just decided to upgrade today. I might have to downgrade seeing all these bugs.

Below is an issue I've had with every version of Fences and it drives me nuts. I have a laptop and a 2nd screen above the laptop. I've set my fences on the second screen but after a couple of days they migrate back to the laptop screen. Is there some way to fix this?

option 1: Fence portals are recorded per screen and if that screen is not plugged in then the fences are not rendered. 

option 2: fence portals migrate to main screen if the second screen is not plugged in but the moment the second screen is plugged in they move back to where they were before.

option 1 would be better as I could then set up different fences on both screens and if the second screen is disconnected then we don't get a mess of overlapping fence portals

Hi sdRohan

Here's my video of the problem

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ss4JHVKS_MxC8-L2_-aNzVPE9_dHQSMH/view?usp=sharing

Now you see my full desktop setup on Windows 11. The 4k screen is on the right and is my primary monitor. The smaller HD screen is monitor 2, and on the left.

You can see that on the 4k screen exactly half (left half) is using the translucent effect, but on the right it's being ignored. I'm wondering if Fences is using the screen resolution from the left most and not realising that the primary screen is on the right, so uses the left most screen as the 'master' resolution reference? Seems weird to do half way vertically split the 4k screen since that is the 'master' screen. And yes if I swapped main screens over (HD = main, 4k = secondary extended) and leave the layout the same then the translucent effect works as it should. 

What I'm saying is regardless of layout, the Fences translucency should work everywhere regardless but something is 'forcing' the 4K to trans background on the left half only.