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Dual screen wallpaper + icon positions
Published on November 5, 2008 By Mascot68 In Fences Beta

1. This has been mentioned a few times. Fences overrides wallpaper selection on secondary monitor.

 

2. Fences does not handle resolution dependent icon positions for icons not inside fences. To make it worse, it will not allow any other application to do it either. If I try to restore icon positions using another application, Fences moves those icons back to the wrong position the second I click the desktop. Ideally, Fences would handle icon positions for all icons, not just fenced ones.


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on Nov 05, 2008

Hi. Can you tell me about the orientation of your monitors, and where you're placing the icon?

E.g. "2 monitors, same resolution, the primary on the right, the secondary on the left in negitive coordinate space"

Thank you

on Nov 05, 2008

no problem here.

Monitor one main(1280x1024 Left)

Monitor two Sec(1280x1024 right)

default window s wallpaper.

on Nov 07, 2008

Two monitors. Primary 1920x1080, Secondary to the right of Primary at 1680x1050.

Setting wallpaper on secondary monitor to something different than primary is overridden when Fences starts. It sets secondary wallpaper to the same image and settings as on primary.

The wallpaper stays correct on boot until Fences is started, and likewise reverts to my settings when Fences is closed when rebooting.

As far as icons are concerned, I only have icons on my primary monitor, and if starting a low resolution games those are moved up to fit into the lower resolution display. Once reverting to original resolution those icons are not moved back, presumably because Fences only handles resolution specific positioning for fences, not individual icons. The annoying bit is that when I then ask Ultramon to reset my icon positions, it'll handle those stray icons just fine, but then Fences (can't think of what else it might be) undoes Ultramon's changes the second I click the desktop. The end effect is I have to reposition those icons manually to get back to how it was.

on Nov 07, 2008

Understood. I'll do my best to think up a way around that, thanks for the scenario