Hi c004, thanks again for the report. Good news, the team was able to look at your settings and found the root of the issue. Having "Show controls in header" off was the cause. The issue has been resolved on our end for the next release, and feel free to just turn this option back on in the meantime to resolve on your end until then. Thank you again!
Excellent. We have a release coming up in the next couple weeks, so hopefully we see and can fix. Thank you!
One option also- you can upload your settings to our team, so we can load them up and try to reproduce on our end. To do this, in the About tab, click Troubleshooting and then you’ll see an option such as Submit/Upload error report
c004002449 Any chance you can switch the language in the about box to English and restart? This would help us be able to see what’s going on. Thanks for your help
Hi, likewise, would it be possible to post a recording of the issue? The team would like to see what's going on. Please share if there are other system or desktop enhancement tools you are using. Agreed likewise a reset/reinstall first might be a good call. Thank you
Hi xfade just to update, the team took a look at this and was able to resolve. There are now two snap points – one using the spacing just off the edge of the screen, and then a second one flush against the edge if you continue to push. So, if you're gentle, you'll be able to access both, to make achieving even spacing simple. Thanks again for writing in, and look out for an update likely a little later this month.
Hi xfade, thanks for pointing this out. This was an intentional change by the team to address the opposite complaint, that when spacing is enabled it’s not possible to place a group up against the edge. With this feedback in hand, is seems like the best solution is to have two snap points - one at the point of spaced away from the edge, and the second if one keeps pushing, flush against. We’ll get this on their radar. Thank you!
Thanks for the report, can you share which process or processes are causing such a spike? Fences is single threaded, so it’s not possible for it to be generating a spike like this on all your cores.
Yes it should be $19.99. Seeing it for $19.99 on our end. Will have the team check it out and be in touch
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Hi ejmdc! Just following up on the above, thoughts? Thanks for any feedback as we consider this functionality
Yes, thank you for raising re right mouse button! Raised this to the team and they found it quickly. It'll be resolved for next release, which will come out early Dec. Yes sorry about the default action. It's ultimately a design choice. While copy is technically correct, and while some people might set things up explicitly wanting this, the desktop surface lends itself to moving rather than copying as both panes are persistently visible. The current way tends to work well for people a
Hi Rhannon, sorry for the confusion. The Upgrade pricing is already a discount, given for owners of Stardock products, offered at $30 instead of $50. So there is no 60% discount available on top of that already-discount of 40%. The 60% discount is on the price of Object Desktop which is $50, so it brings it down to $20.
Hi accrock, we found some issues with folks upgrading from Fences 3 who had some specific settings, and have a fix underway. Can you try choosing a *different* option from this list, and then switching back to "Store my layout on a per-monitor-config basis"? This should resolve changes in settings not saving. The version below should resolve the issue, inclu
Hi Scope40k, great minds think alike! 😆 Good news, this is in the next build. The team just happened to have this thought while using the nav - that it felt logical that if you’re bothering to right click and hit open, that you probably would like to open and not navigate, as you say. So we threw it in. No timeline right at this second, but I’d say probably something if not a beta within the next few weeks, I’m guessing we’ll ship early Dec as final pu
It does not. I’d check out Everything by Void Tools. But if you have a specific real scenario that involves your uses of Fences today, let us know and happy to discuss concepts for potential future feature ideas.
Hi, can you clarify the situation you’d like to use this search, with some specific scenario involving Fences? Thank you
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Hi ejmdc, thank you for the detail! Great, a few followup question. - Would it bother you if OneDrive emitted notifications ("file changed") just like any other file, when the layout changed. I.e. if you move an icon in/out of a group, or move a group, if OneDrive notifications are enabled for you, you might see a few notifications like "Icons.cfg updated" in OneDrive. Or, would this be a deal-breaker annoyance for you. - Your desktop PC, is that a single monitor or mu
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Hi ejmdc, checking back in, if you have thoughts on the above?
Hi Gbonne, good news! Not sure how you got into this state, but it seems like a setting "AdjustGroupsForResolution" in your settings got set to 0. You can resolve this by, on the layout tab, clicking one of the other options ("Preserve my layout...") and then going back to "Store my layout on a per-monitor-configuration basis". Change the setting, then you may need to log off and log back on, but after that, everything should work & save as expected. (If somehow not, please send a
Again big difference between doing the magic Peek functionality and bringing all groups to the top (and hiding loose icons) vs only bringing one to the top! Unfortunately one we were able to make happen and the other, not so much, even with all our tricks 🙃
Hi Paul, I work with the development team. Sadly, while we're continually trying to think of ways to make this possible, we haven't yet figured out a way to make this possible with the way things work. "Peek" is a pretty technically-magic piece of functionality to begin with, and to make it work – specifically, to bring the desktop surface above other apps the way it does – the program has to do some very fancy stuff. The desktop can only move as a s
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Hi ejmdc, we'd love to learn more about what you need in a Sync feature. - Do you use OneDrive, or some other thing to sync desktop contents? - Are the monitor configurations different between the two devices? Can you share the monitor configuration for each machine so that we can ask a followup question here? - Are their any icon files located on the "Public" desktop of either machine, "%public%\Desktop"? Are the icons different between the two machines in that folder
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Hi jsimon, Just following up to see if the test build at https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fxrz303c0dj3raitexubh/UpdatePatcher_Debug_2025_10_14__4_53_40_am.exe?rlkey=p0iiy402y39t8qeatczv9dmgo&dl=1 was able to resolve the issue. (Details above) In either case, looking forward to getting the bottom of this, and
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This is intentional. If it did not do this the color would remain black. Adjusting the hue slider when brightness is zero will set brightness to 100%, so that the color responds to the adjusting of the hue slider, and it can be adjusted from there.