Setting Up Your Desktop with Fences
Friday, October 9, 2009 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
Fences 1.0 was released this week, and I wanted to put up a quick tutorial so new users can get setup quickly without much fuss. Grab the free download here, or via Stardock’s Impulse. Installation should take just a moment and then we can start getting our desktop in to some type of order.
Lets create our first Fence!
Right-click your mouse and drag an area across your screen with the size you want your Fence to be. It doesn’t have to be perfect, you can adjust it later. Release the mouse and you will be asked if you want to create a new Fences, say yes, and name your Fence.
Now you have your first Fence. How easy was that?
Now you can proceed to drag and drop icons from your desktop into the Fence, and that is where they will be contained.
If you need to resize the Fence, just place your mouse on the edges and you can drag and resize to your liking. Right-click and select “configure Fences” for more advanced options.
If you want to completely clear you desktop of icons, just double-click to hide them, and double-click the desktop again to show them. You can also right-click an individual icon and exclude it from hiding.
So all you have to do now is create as many Fences as you like, and get your desktop clutter-free!
Reply #2 Friday, October 9, 2009 4:22 PM
Coolness. A question though: the previous release didn't seem to want to play nice with dual monitors and Display Fusion installed. Any idea if version 1.0 will cooperate with Display Fusion?
Reply #3 Friday, October 9, 2009 4:38 PM
And don't forget... you can double click your desktop to hide your icons. Repeat to bring them back.
Reply #4 Friday, October 9, 2009 4:48 PM
Ah yes, how could I have forgotten that.
Reply #5 Friday, October 9, 2009 4:55 PM
@Island Dog could you comment on my question asked in https://forums.elementalgame.com/366104?
When i switch from a programm to the desktop (i.e. minimize my browser) and go over one fence which has a scrollbar i cant use my mouse wheel to scroll i have to click on the fence first.
When i am on the desktop it is just enough to go with my mouse over the fence and the mousewheel will work, although i did not klick on the fence first. Imho this should also apply after minimizing a application.
edit: when rebooting the system (winxp) there is short amount of time when fences isn´t initialised and the desktop is clutterd. is there a way to prevent this?
Reply #6 Saturday, October 10, 2009 3:00 PM
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Reply #1 Friday, October 9, 2009 4:14 PM