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How to prevent icons within a fence from auto-arranging

December 20, 2010 12:36:34 AM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

I have the Sort Fence option set to none and yet every time I try to reposition an icon within a fence they don't stick where I want them. If I have a dozen icons within a fence and I want one or two icons to remain next to each other, it seems like every time I move one icon to where I want it to go, the others all change their order.

Is there a way to position each icon in the order I want without the others moving about to try to maintain a fill pattern?

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Reply #1 December 28, 2010 6:50:00 PM
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Reply #2 December 28, 2010 7:05:56 PM
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You might get more response if you moved this to the stardock support

 

link: https://forums.wincustomize.com/forum/165

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Reply #3 January 13, 2011 3:07:08 PM
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Not currently, we have this on the list for potential updates.

Zargon

 

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Reply #4 March 6, 2011 1:34:23 AM
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Please consider moving it from potential update to definite update. The reason I just bought Fences Pro after trying Fences Free is that I thought it would allow this, but apparently I was mistaken.

Please, please do allow for arbitrary placement of icons within fences. That is, please make the icons remember exactly where they've been placed in a fence. No grid alignment, no auto arrangement. Where I put it, please let it stay right there.

Thanks! Cool program...

Steve

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Reply #5 April 7, 2011 11:38:18 AM
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I am greatly enjoying the free version of Fences.

Count me as another who would immediately buy the paid version if it had arbitrary placement of icons as described above. 

Thanks - great product!

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Reply #6 April 8, 2011 8:28:06 PM
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would be very nice to have have way to totally disable auto arrange and let me put shortcuts where i want them or auto snap to grid and remember where i place them in the fenced window

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Reply #7 April 9, 2011 3:54:01 PM
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Quoting mjgoya,
reply 6
would be very nice to have have way to totally disable auto arrange and let me put shortcuts where i want them or auto snap to grid and remember where i place them in the fenced window

 

I have been using fences for almost a 3 weeks and honestly I am trying to figure out how installing a program that is supposed to enhance my experience on my pc is good when it removes my basic desktop abilities? Other than some decent visuals now I have to re-learn how to use a desktop because you decide to take away my power as a desktop user to try your product.  I don't see this positively encouraging to the program to pay for my hijacked functions. That's it really, it had potential but that was after the facts remain that I lost my potential as a desktop user desiring a layered desktop.

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Reply #8 November 3, 2011 10:27:06 PM
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+1 on this enhancement request, hope to see it soon.  I would even go so far as to say give the user the option to say that the arrangement of the icons inside the fence will be allowed to constrain how the fence can be reshaped.  In other words, don't re-arrange the icons when fence shape changes, don't add scroll-bars; if necessary don't let the fence be set smaller than what's inside it.  And, of course, I would have all this enhancement available as a property of each individual fence.

 

TIA,

Peter Smick

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Reply #9 December 8, 2011 4:29:17 PM
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Another vote to allow arranging icons within a fence by auto, grid, or no grid.

The point of using fences is to arrange my icons where I want them to be - not where fences decides to put them.

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Reply #10 September 18, 2012 6:02:12 AM
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Add another "definitely yes" vote.

This is the ONLY thing that keeps me from moving from Free to Pro, and I'm astonished that it hasn't already been done. Such an obvious -- and easy -- user-friendly fix!

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Reply #11 September 18, 2012 3:09:43 PM
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Actually, if you right click on any empty space outside of a fence and navigate to the "view"options, you can disable the alignment options for icons and it will also apply to those inside a fence. I move my icons about inside a fence and they stay right where I want them.    -- Ace --

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Reply #12 October 31, 2012 3:28:52 PM
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Ace, I've tried your suggestion and my icons are still sorting and I cannot get them to stay in the place within the fence where I place them other than in an order from left-to-right. Can you post a screenshot of a fence with icons randomly placed and one showing the settings you used?

 

Thanks, Doug

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Reply #13 October 31, 2012 8:13:52 PM
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First, to make a correction to my original reply above, I mistakenly said the "view" option. I should have said the "sort by" option, then make sure that the "none" option is selected. I don't believe a screenshot would be of any use here since you wouldn't actually be able to see me moving icons around. A video would probably be more effective, but then, I don't know how to do that. I've had several fences created on my desktop and by adjusting fence size and juggling icons around, I've been able to place them in any order that I want after making this adjustment. I've had fences where I've had 15 to 20 folders icons that I wanted arranged in a certain order. It took a little juggling and some patience, but I got them where I wanted them and they never changed , even after a reboot.

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Reply #14 November 6, 2012 12:40:48 PM
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Hi Ace! I think you misunderstood Doug. He (and many of us, too) wants to position icons freely at any position inside a fence. Not only without sorting, but also without rearranging nor realinging. For example one column of icons on the left side of a fence with additional icons on the right side on the topmost and the bottommost icon.

Fence Title

Icon  Icon

Icon

Icon

Icon  Icon

 

I think it should be clear now?

MfG

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Reply #15 September 27, 2015 3:06:51 PM
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Its been years since this thread, but as a new user I can't seem to find the solution - was the ability to snap to grid never implemented for within a fence?

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Reply #16 September 28, 2015 1:51:25 PM
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Quoting Logun0,
reply 15

Its been years since this thread, but as a new user I can't seem to find the solution - was the ability to snap to grid never implemented for within a fence?

Icons within Fences are already placed within an invisible grid. The ability to move icons around freely, and place them freely, however is not in Fences 2.

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