twometer / nofences

🚧 Open Source Stardock Fences alternative

NoFences

Didn't want to pay 11€, made my own.

nofences's Issues

Request: Set Fence Opacity

Is there a way to add setting the opacity of each fence?

What do you think?

How can I use it?

Allow portable mode by storing config next to .exe

Would be good if the app could first check whether or not it has a config file in it's own path before checking the user profile %appdata% . that way i can easily move my fences around from one system to another

Additional Install via the Windows Store

In addition to the current portable way of installing, it would be nice to have a more convenient Windows Store installer.

Scaling for High DPI

Trojan.YakbeexMSIL.ZZ4 in .exe ?

according to a virustotal scan of the provided .exe there's the Trojan.YakbeexMSIL.ZZ4 coming along!
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bb166429ea8d901ab60795b79e58ac1615f206291081095d4814c388683c8e37/detection

Did I find a glitch? Or is this behavior expected?

I put all of my desktop icons into the First Fence, but they still appear on my "un-fenced" desktop. (See screenshot) Am I missing something? Maybe it's something on my end. But I thought I'd report in case it helps:

Any ideas how to make the icons in the fence the only copies I see?

Request: Stay on Top when Minimize to Desktop

Minimizing to desktop (Win + D) in order to see icons causes fences to disappear. Would it be possible to have program stay on top? Thank you for considering!

How do I compile the program?

I don't use C#

Suggestion: Right-Click title bar to also see NoFences menu

I actually didn't find the menu right away because I first right-clicked on the First Fence's title bar to see if I could find something but nothing happened.

Maybe, the menu could appear no matter where in a Fence you right-click?

What do you think?

[REQUEST] Add support for folders

Title says it all ...

Delete Item not showing

If you want to delete a item from the fence you have to right click it and the context menu should open. This doesn't happen, instead the normal right click menu opens (witch is a great function), but now you cant delete items from a fence.

exe missing?

Downloaded this but can't seem to find an .exe that others have mentioned.
Was it removed?

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!! & Request: double-click to hide/reveal fences

I've been hoping someone would make an open source alternative to Fences. I only really use it for two things:

1. Fences
2. Double-click to Hide/Reveal the fences (Makes for a clean desktop that highlights the chosen wallpaper)

So, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS!

I also love that there is no installer!

Is there a setting menu or some way to hide/reveal the fences with a double-click on an empty desktop spot?

are you going to work on it in future

FIRST I get so excited that someone has listen to us,
then i download it and found it buggy,
my all expectations got killed at first sight

cheers to you for making this effort.

[i was not able to pull request thats why i posted here]

International support

Possibility to have french language in v2.0.0?

not clear enough

Systray with option to quit program?

Scroll Bar

Hi, It seems there isn't a scroll when there are many icons inside. Have you considered releasing a new version with Scroll Bar?

Right click the App, it doesn't show the properties of the software

Hi, Thanks for the Great Software!

When Right-click the App, it doesn't show the properties of the app, please advise if it possible to add this function?

Thanks and best regards

Modern Windows 11 Context Menu

On Windows 11, the new context menu should be shown for icons.

move issues

when I move the fences in any direction the windows are very slow and hang in windows 11

[REQUEST] Image Thumbnail Rendering

Would be cool if image thumbnails could be rendered like they do on the normal desktop, instead of just the default placeholder icon.

Also, awesome work so far!
Was looking for an alternative to Fences, their UI is so slow when moving a fence around, even if it is empty (believe it has to do with the way their fences interact with & move desktop icons around). But this is buttery smooth.

Add a folder as a fence

The file could not be found:HeightDialog.cs

auto start when user login

we can use windows scheduletasks, just add a button to make it more easy

Animation for minified fences

Missing LogicalToDeviceUnits Method in FenceWindow.cs

I encountered build errors due to the missing LogicalToDeviceUnits method in FenceWindow.cs. This prevents the project from building successfully.

Steps to Reproduce:
Clone the repository.
Open the solution in Visual Studio.
Build the project.

Suggested Fix:
Add the following method to FenceWindow.cs:

private int LogicalToDeviceUnits(int value)
{
    using (Graphics g = this.CreateGraphics())
    {
        return (int)(value * g.DpiX / 96.0);
    }
}

This resolves the issue and allows the project to build successfully.

Windows 10 Pro - Version 10.0.19045 Build 10945

Create docs

More and more people ask how to use, so a guide would be good.

Disappears when clicking show desktops.

When clicking on show desktop (bottom right corner) all the Fences disappear.

Add about window with some hints

NoFences has a minimalist UI and that's great. However, I think an additional about window accessible via context menu would be helpful to show users the current version, copyright and some hints for usage like shift right click to get an application specific context menu.

Request: Set icon size in the Fences

Would it be possible to choose the scale of the icons displayed in each fence?

This would make Fences that display images particularly useful.

What do you think?

Removing objects in the fence

good day
Please do, when I move the folder to the fence, so that a link to the object is added to the fence, and not a physical object,

when I want to remove an object from the fences, the physical object on the desktop is also deleted.

I hope I have explained clearly. It is necessary to make sure that when transferring an object to the fence, a link is made to a file or folder for copying.

Or make the function of removing objects from fences.

Thanks for your work.

Assign downloads to a fence

Using FireFox or other browser direct downloads into a specified fence, not a folder within a fence.

Block sizes

Hello, please do so that you can change the size of the blocks, they are too large

Reorder fence items once they are in a fence

Add the ability to be able to move shortcuts in the "fences" because at the moment they are all in a specific order.

can not start 64bit Applications

Links to 64bit Applications do not start the Application from within a fence.

Scrolling

Absolutely love this program. 1000% better than nimi places. My only issue is scrolling on a fence is a bit slow and laggy. Could this be an easy fix for future updates?

why do some antivirus classify nofences.exe as trojan?

my browser blocked the download. It's safe?
https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/b9e75d76b312d57f8aff7290529debaa3374dd777d6252852e29b76862059bb8

Moving files - missing reference

After adding an item into a fence and later moving the real file to a different location (changing its path), the fence stops working.

Color settings

In addition to #20 Opacity setting, a full color setting would be awesome.

Here's my current settup

with these settings

Show extensions file

Show the .xxx extension for every files