Releasing Fences 5.81 with Quality-of-Life Enhancements
A couple of new features, bug fixes, and QoL updates.
Monday, August 19, 2024 by BradSams | Discussion: Fences News
Today, we are releasing an update for Fences 5 that introduces a new feature, several quality-of-life updates, and more. The update is available now and is currently rolling out to all Fences 5 users or you can manually search for the update by clicking "Check for Update" on the About panel in the Configuration window.
New in this release is the ability to swap screen contents in the Layout tab. This feature makes it easy to swap the screen contents and is helpful especially in scenarios where you change devices frequently with several external monitors attached.
Also new in this release is significant performance improvements when resizing Folder Portals and compatibility updates when Folder Portal content is actively syncing with services like Dropbox and OneDrive. And for those users running the latest Windows Insider builds, compatibility improvements for Peek will provide a more consistent experience.
For users who are running the legacy Layout auto-adjustment settings, we are now moving all users to the option of “Store my layout on a per-monitor-configuration”. When we released version 5.5 earlier this year, this new option became the default experience and we have been actively encouraging all users to move to the new Fences engine.
With robust support for multi-monitor scenarios and additional resilience for complex desktop environments, the new engine is superior in every way to the legacy tooling. While the legacy options are still available, we highly encourage everyone to stay on the new setting.
And if that wasn’t enough, besides a number of bug fixes, double clicking on the "folder" or "up" icon of a folder portal title bar no longer triggers roll-up.
Many of these updates were the result of direct input from our users and your input is essential to helping make Fences the best desktop enhancement available. If you have any feedback, make sure to check out our forums where you can share your feedback and learn how other teams are using Fences at home and in the workplace.
If you haven't tried Fences yet, you can learn more about Fences on the app page and it is also included in the award-winning suite, Object Desktop.
Reply #2 Friday, August 23, 2024 8:55 PM
Hey guys,
We are experiencing an issue with Fences v5.81, where the desktop layout changes on every reboot or sign-in, and the top of each Fence does not align properly with the top of the monitors. It seems that the absolute position of the Fences is not being saved correctly, and when restoring (either manually or after a reboot/sign-in), the Fences are not aligned with the top of the monitors as they should be—their position isn’t being properly restored. This happens regardless of whether we use the layout auto-adjustment options "Don't preserve my desktop layout" or "Store my layout on a per-monitor-configuration basis."
We are using six monitors on the computer in question, all with a resolution of 2560 x 1080, except for one at 1920 x 1080. Please see the screenshot below to view the screen display layout from Windows settings. The Fences on both the left and right screens have their tops aligned in the middle of the screen, while the main display (monitor 3) has the Fences’ tops aligned about 1/4 down from the top. Even though we manually place them where they should be and back up that layout (using either of the auto-adjustment options), as soon as we try to restore or reboot/sign-out, the Fences revert to this same problematic layout, rendering Fences v5.81 unusable at this time.
Hoping this will be solved promptly, as we have no idea how to roll-back to the previous version.
Thanks so much in advance!
Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Please refer to this thread any try those steps mention in the first post in this thread. Reply/report back there with your finding. We appreciate your feedback and patience.
https://forums.stardock.com/529991/
Thank you.
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Reply #1 Friday, August 23, 2024 1:40 PM
Hey guys,
We are experiencing an issue with Fences v5.81, where the desktop layout changes on every reboot or sign-in, and the top of each Fence does not align properly with the top of the monitors. It seems that the absolute position of the Fences is not being saved correctly, and when restoring (either manually or after a reboot/sign-in), the Fences are not aligned with the top of the monitors as they should be—their position isn’t being properly restored. This happens regardless of whether we use the layout auto-adjustment options "Don't preserve my desktop layout" or "Store my layout on a per-monitor-configuration basis."
We are using six monitors on the computer in question, all with a resolution of 2560 x 1080, except for one at 1920 x 1080. Please see the screenshot below to view the screen display layout from Windows settings. The Fences on both the left and right screens have their tops aligned in the middle of the screen, while the main display (monitor 3) has the Fences’ tops aligned about 1/4 down from the top. Even though we manually place them where they should be and back up that layout (using either of the auto-adjustment options), as soon as we try to restore or reboot/sign-out, the Fences revert to this same problematic layout, rendering Fences v5.81 unusable at this time.
Hoping this will be solved promptly, as we have no idea how to roll-back to the previous version.
Thanks so much in advance!