It appears you are using a significant number of desktop enhancements, based on the appearance of your taskbar and desktop. It's likely that one or more is colliding. Can you share which you are using? Thank you
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Hm this is very odd. Seeing the change come in, but again (1) It's all packed within 1 second (2) It's not detecting any actual monitor change. 2026-01-07 12:28:01,090 - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE Received 2026-01-07 12:28:02,401 - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE Received We're going to need some time to figure out how to approach and have a busy next 5-6 days. Let us get this in our list for this coming week and we'll come up with ways to diagnose? It's clear what's go
Hi lansyin! Thanks for the report. We’d like to check out your settings quick to see what’s going on. Can you go to the About tab in settings, use the Troubleshooting link and select “Create error package”? Thanks for your help and for letting us know
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Hey jeffis, we appreciate the report. Looked into this and very interesting indeed – it looks like a monitor change came in (WM_DISPLAYCHANGE) but there was no actual change. But in the meantime, the icons got moved. Critically – we see that there were two WM_DISPLAYCHANGE's generated within one second of each other, indicating two system monitor changes within a second. > 2026-01-06 01:04:01,356 - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE Received
@crhooker, new build is ready. It'll be out in beta coming up, but in the meantime you can get it below: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9esqvax2zl402p8waspd9/Fences6_6.2.2.1-j94-Setup.exe?rlkey=zela6xjpx5hjjbs9cclugefau&dl=0 v6.22 (6.2.2.1). Based on our replay of your debug log, this should fix things up. Fingers crossed. Thanks again f
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Sounds good and of course. Well that is a delight for us to hear – thank you for sharing!
Ah that's right crhooker thank you for the reminder. Yes this was right before the holiday! Word got dropped as result. We'll circle back on Monday when the team is back. Good news, this got resolved. We were able to see precisely what was going wrong, and there was a minor bit of layout scoring that was off with your specific scenario. ===== Fun tec
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It is true that one can work around it perhaps. But the only (only!) cause is Fences mismatching the data. It is specifically programmed to handle this. Please submit a report and we can get this resolved - thank you! (If it’s already resolved for you personally and you’re satisfied with the workaround, that’s of course fine, but no workaround should be required. It should Just Work ✅)
Hi Norwicensis, crookher, Just circling back. We would look forward to diagnosing this issue with you. We get pretty few of these issues given the size of the userbase so when we see folks with an issue, we like to stay on top of it as to figure out it out for the users who might be having this problem. [quote who="Dr W - Fences Support" reply="11" id="3985448"] Please do the following (1) Go to About, Troubleshooting, and click "Enable advan
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Hi all. Thank you for continuing the conversation. I'd like to repeat that we would like to look into the issue further for you, as this shouldn't be happening – so if it is, we like to figure it out so that it's resolved for you and anyone else who might be having this issue. Instructions are in the posts above. Please note that creating a "before" and "after breaking" backup is an important part of the process so that we can attempt to replay and diagnose, and so that we can see exact
Thanks for pointing this out. This is for sure out of the usual; we'd like to get to the bottom of it. Steps: (1) Go to About, click Troubleshooting, and enable "Enable advanced logging" (2) Reboot, so that the setting will take effect (3) Get desktop the way you want it, fixing the order. Take a snapshot, open it up and rename it to "Before" (4) Reproduce the issue / break it (5) Take another backup snapshot, rename it "Broken"</
Thanks Litcube, we're looking into it but can confirm that that specific file, when using Windows' link parsing libraries (IShellLink), returns empty for the target. Going to the target file and creating a new link, adjusting the title and icon created a link file that worked fine. But using that specific one you sent returns empty from IShellLink. So, we'll have to see if there's anything we can do. Just giving you the update It seems we were able to get the file to fi
We weren't able to reproduce – or rather, we were able to verify it works. Created a link to a VBS file, used part of the path in a rule as you have it there and turned on "Keep rules applied", and it moved it as expected. Might you be able to share that link file?
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I'm sorry but explicitly no, a CLI for restoring saved backups is not available – what it does have is a system built specifically for handling these multi-monitor change scenarios. There's always a chance you don't have it enabled or there's some other issue. Please see the instructions from the previous post – the team is happy to look into this further to see why this isn't working for you. Multi-mon flakiness is a thing of a past for most everyone as the new one stores
Got it! Noted. Yes we’ve considered adding some pop up notices for Opus and this is certainly something to consider. Likewise for if we notice Opus is no longer present or option is turned off. Thanks again for the detail and glad we we got it going
Hey Lynn, just to better understand so we can make the program better for others — could you share more about what you meant by “I was assuming, incorrectly, that double-click rollup was default behavior and had not fully explored the options”? Thanks again for the report and glad we could figure it out, we appreciate any insight.
Peek works in a very specific way that "carves out" pieces of the desktop so that it can put only the Fence areas on top while hiding the rest. Whichever pieces are carved appear on top, and whatever pieces are not part of the carve out that’s on top are hidden by necessity. (As noted desktop is a single layer, cannot be split up.) We’re always working to think of ways to make things like this possible. What technically could be possibl
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Thanks for the update. It SHOULD work in all conditions — so if you’d like this fixed for you without having to jump through this hoop, feel free follow the steps, and our team will be able to help you out. Just would need you to take snapshots before and after (and rename them appropriately) then upload the report. In the meantime, glad you’ve found a workaround.
Hi Norwicensis, we'd like to take a look. If you could follow the instructions in the post above, it should give our team the information to figure it out. Be sure to rename the one snapshot to "This is the layout the way I want it" etc etc, then do whatever causes it to break, and then take a snapshot again right after, renaming it to "broken". Upload this to us using the instructions above and we'd love to get it resolved. Thanks for your help
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Hi newsch1, welcome and thank you! The team is happy to take a look, if you're having issues with layouts getting messed up. Would it be possible to follow the instructions in the post above? Be sure to take a snapshot, rename it to "This is the way I want it" etc etc, then do whatever causes it to break, take another snapshot / name it "broken" and then upload it to us. We'd love to figure out what's going on. Thanks for the help and again glad you've gotten good
Hi David, Correct, closest to Fences on Mac is the app "Desktop Groups" https://apps.apple.com/us/app/desktop-groups/id542912361?mt=12 which is quite old, but according to the App Store does still work. There are also apps like Unclutter, which provide a dock like functionality, and others similar. https://unclutterapp.com/ Sparkle exists,
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Hi mr_vico, a couple steps to try and diagnose this. The first series includes creating a log file and submitting. Please do the following (1) Go to About, Troubleshooting, and click "Enable advanced logging". Reboot so that the setting can take effect. (2) After rebooting, modify your layout as desired. (3) Take a backup snapshot from the Layouts tab. (Ideally, click on the snapshot and rename it "Before disconnect") (4) Reproduce the issue, disconnecting
Hi crookher, a couple steps to try and diagnose this. The first series includes creating a log file and submitting. Please do the following (1) Go to About, Troubleshooting, and click "Enable advanced logging". Reboot so that the setting can take effect. (2) After rebooting, modify your layout as desired. (3) Take a backup snapshot from the Layouts tab. (Ideally, click on the snapshot and rename it "Before reboot") (4) Reboot, to reproduce the issue. Upon
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Hi June thanks for pointing this out. We’ve forwarded this on to the dev team as indeed the keyboard navigation scrolling appears to not be working properly, whereas it had in the past. We’ll take a look and be back to you with more. Thank you for the helpful feedback
Hi, please also try clicking “do not preserve” option and then switching back to “store on per monitor basis”. This has helped some. If this doesn’t help we’re happy to work to diagnose more.