Sounds good. Yes, there are situations where we receive a cached version of the wallpaper from Windows even after getting the message. We call on Windows to draw the wallpaper which is blurred, so we have to wait until Windows itself reloads the wallpaper – and that time can be unpredictable. So, we have a backup-sweep kick in 20 seconds after, to ensure the correct wallpaper is captured. Usually, this all works fine right away, but in some cases we've heard about, this cache-issue type problem occurs, hence the fallback mechanism, which we'll continue to refine over time.

The fallback mechanism was previously set up around monitor changes; this extends that to also kick in for regular wallpaper switches. 

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I'm glad it's now not getting perma-stuck. 🙏 And thanks for your patience.

One more like that and your Fences purchase will be refunded and your account will be closed. 

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

You have got to be kidding me! Go ahead and refund ALL of my purchases then; I'm doing QA for your team for free, and, in fact, I PAID for the software that I'm helping to troubleshoot so I basically paid you to do QA work, and you pull that kind of crap?

That is the most unprofessional thing I've experienced in a LONG time. I've already got screenshots of this garbage. I know you are a small team, so I don't know how much power you ACTUALLY have as a Project Lifecycle Manager, but that kind of response is ridiculous and I'll make sure that the right people find out about it. 

Check your ego or refund me.

Yikes & noted. Seeing any pattern? Any screenshots or does it correct too quickly? What do the Fence background change to- just “the wrong thing” or any hints where it might be coming from

I can think of a tweak that might help the situation, related to the fix. Will get a new build made this weekend, so new build to share start if next week.

I’ve added a great deal of debug logging, so when Advanced Logging is enabled from Troubleshooting menu, we’ll be gathering some good info/hints. I can think of one additional useful piece of debug that I can add this weekend.

Thank you!

I don't love that I don't have an answer to why it's doing this – not sure if it has to do with monitor's going to sleep & waking up, or caching on Windows' side, DisplayFusion or something else still somehow modifying the images etc, but this is behavior I have not seen. For some reason clearly it's loading up at least temporarily some sort of incorrectly positioned image from Windows' PaintDesktop function.

I do assume you're using Windows' "Slideshow" functionality to rotate between the two wallpapers correct. Or is something else responsible for changing them. In the log I see it moving between C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Local\DisplayFusion\Wallpaper_2.jpg and C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Local\DisplayFusion\Wallpaper_1.jpg

Made another swing at it and put even more more debug data in there to try to help figure it out, as well as more tuning of the algorithm (which could help or hurt, tbd). More on Monday.

I'm not too familiar with how DisplayFusion sorts the images, but it looks like it uses a single picture and changes the image that Windows uses. 

Uploaded. I haven't noticed the issue since the new install though... That being said, I've been working and haven't been able to watch the Fences the entire time. 

Hi NttR, just checking to see how this is going for you. Still no issue since new install? (I understand you've been working so may not notice.)