Exactly a bug I wanted to report as well. In my case, it happens when I'm using the rectangular selection (marquee), the icons from some other pages swap, or are simply moved, within the selection area. Note that the way I'm using Fences isn't as you'd expect, I'm essentially only using the 'pages' feature and keep the icons directly on the desktop rather than using the 'fences'.

I am having the issue also on Windows 10... my primary monitor is 1080x1920, with my 2nd being 1920x1080.  I believe the problem started since updating to Fences 3.0.8.1.  I lock my system at end of shift, when I login in the morning.. my icons are all messed up on my primary monitor and the fences have moved to my secondary.  I thought I would try "locking" my fences.  This didn't resolve, plus, the next morning when I logged in I could not "unlock" my fences, so had to restore a snapshot.

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Just to toss in my two cents, I'd love to see multi-monitors not screw my Fences up on a regular basis. Lately it won't even restore the daily snapshots, just leaves the fences where it dumps them on my primary display. I've specifically been using them to keep the icons off the primary monitor, so I can find them without having to close whatever full-screen program I am working in. 

Seems somewhat surprising to have this be a continuing problem using multiple monitors, when so many business/productivity users or gamers have multi-monitors. 

I'd love to know why restore snapshot hasn't been working lately, that at least let me fix the issue without having to manually re-align the fences back to where they belong.

It's a random thing, I know it's an application that moves them, but I do work (Including needing to use remote desktops and resources), online college classes, and gaming on the same PC. A clean user account won't help me. 

Like I said, I'm mostly surprised there's a whole section about how there's issues with multi-monitor support. 

I'm also frustrated that (specifically earlier) something bumped the fences onto the primary monitor, and when I tried to restore from today's snapshot, it didn't restore.

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having issues. Need more information. 

1) Windows version please use Winver.exe

2) Fences version.

3) How were they transferred? Transferred after sleep? Transferred after full screen games?

4) When layout restore don't work? Was there an error message pop up?

Thanks

Basj,

Stardock Community Assistant.

Possibly similar issue: 

When my 3-monitor setup does any of the following:

• Restart
• Unlock
• Turn on monitors

The last icon I clicked on or had selected is moved out of its fence and onto the first monitor to activate, regardless of what monitor the icon was on originally, or which monitor is the primary monitor.

Windows Version: 1803 (OS Build 17134.765)
Fences Version: 2.13

I run several triple monitor PCs and I do not have this issue, meaning that it may be specific to your rig, and not Fences itself.  Different PCs have different issues. Not everyone gets the same results.

Just my 2 cents.

When is this problem going to be fixed?  Yes, I resurrected a zombie thread.  Almost 100% of the time when I wake my computer from sleep mode or hibernation, reboot, or cold boot my icons transfer from Monitor 1 to Monitor 2.

1) Windows Version: Windows 10 Professional Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.959)

2) Fences Version: 3.0.9.11

3) How were they transferred: On boot. After sleep. After hibernation.

4) When layout restore don't work? Was there an error message pop up? Layout restore does nothing.  The icons stay on Monitor 2, even if the snapshot shows them on Monitor 1. There is no error, just nothing changes.  I am not currently using the Fences part of Fences, just the autohide icons and layout snapshot features.

Seriously, if this doesn't get fixed, I'm not going to keep using this product.  I've owned it for many years now, but this is just ridiculous.

Display hardware specifications:

• MSI Radeon 5700XT
• Monitor 1 ASUS VG279Q on DisplayPort
• Monitor 2 Dell SE2717H on HDMI

Thanks for replying.  Monitor 1 is set as my default and Fences shows it as such in my user settings in regedit.  I attempted everything listed and nothing fixes the issue.

I use Fences for many years and this is driving me crazy. Fences get confused regarding where to put icons when:

• updating Nvidia driver
  • my layout on the primary display gets mangled 
    • sometimes restart helps with restoring positions on the primary display 
  • fences from the secondary monitor get moved to first
    • I usually move them back manually 
  • Restoring from backup should probably solve both problems but I don't consider restoring from backup as a solution, Fences should be robust enough to handle driver updates as it is happening maybe once a month in the case of Nvidia which is a major manufacturer
• new monitor addition - I recently replaced my secondary monitor with new 4k display. In windows nothing changed - the main display stayed the same, the display number (displayed in windows Display settings) stayed the same, but Fences thought "ok, let him have some fun and swap fences between monitors")
  • I tried so many things, like switching displays, swapping primary displays, disabling displays but nothing helped
  • to restore snapshots did not help
  • as there is no option to somehow configure displays in Fences preferences, it took me editing backup XML (I did swap DISPLAY1 <-> DISPLAY2 values) and maybe an hour of manual moving of icons/fences between monitors because not only display positions but also sizes etc were broken (probably due to the fact that now my one monitor is FullHD and one is 4k)
• randomly - no monitor change, no nothing, just restart. But this happened to me maybe twice in all those years 

I like Fences very much and I don't want to get emotional about this but for me, Fences is probably one of the most problematic software I use on daily basis and a constant source of little/bigger placements/sizing/position annoyances like this and if I would have the time I would seriously invest some time to research alternatives. 

Notes:

• I'm using the latest commercial version (3.0.9.11 at the time I'm writing this) on the latest version of windows 10 pro 20H2
• neither https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq#shortcutswrongmonitor nor https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq#multimonitor provide any help 
  • "Allow PC to sleep (thus disabling/re-enabling monitors in an abrupt and destructive way)." - seriously? I think calling letting my pc to sleep and save some power and environment  "destructive way" is pretty bold, letting pc sleep is a pretty common thing from my point of view
• based on information regarding registry and backup format in https://forums.stardock.com/497126/tip-is-fences-with-multi-monitors-slowly-driving-you-insane I suppose it would not be impossible to provide some display configuration in Fences preferences. Being a software developer myself I can understand that it is hard to implement bulletproof operation regarding all the possible variety of hardware/software  monitor/driver/windows configuration but that being said we don't have tools to resolve described situations cause backup restore often does not help

This is an on going issue for me as well. I have 3 monitors. Turning off a monitor, putting PC to sleep, all of the things mentioned above are a problem for me. Restore snapshot doesn't work. Fences likes to dump everything to my primary monitor, but sometimes it just flips the fences from display 3 and 2, display 1 being my primary.

I used the original free version of Fences on 2 monitors and didn't have trouble like I'm having with this paid version. Very disappointing that this is a known issue since at least 2018 when this thread began.

Windows 10 v 20H2 

Fences 3.09.11

I think the problem is a Windows 10 problem and not particularly a Fences problem. I just set up a new dual monitor system running Windows 10. When I turn off the monitors, all of my windows are migrated to monitor #1, resized, and stacked on top of each other. If you Google "display port dual monitors windows 10 resizing moving windows" you will see what I mean.  For some strange reason, my Fences installation has had no problems. The two programs that I want to keep open on monitor #2 (Mailwasher and Eudora) succumb to this Win10 issue.

So before anyone condemns Stardock for this problem, please do a bit more research. There may be no fix until Microsoft owns up to the problem.