Published on November 11, 2010 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

We have released the v3.99 RC update to Object Desktop subscribers for WindowFX 4.  You can find this latest update in Impulse.

This update includes:

  • Added control over animation speed
  • Adjusted darken inactive window slider to ignore the WindowFX UI
  • Additional fixes for hibernate laptop issues
  • Adjusted high DPI UI

A subscription to Object Desktop allows you to get this, and many more desktop applications such as WindowBlinds, IconPackager, DeskScapes and more.  Go to www.objectdesktop.com for more info!

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on Nov 11, 2010

Great new features...thx

on Nov 11, 2010

If anyone encounters any problems please let us know.

on Nov 11, 2010

Working great! You have fixed the two issues, disappearing windows and hibernate, that kept it disabled on my laptop. I especially like the random animations.

on Nov 12, 2010

Great work. One issue:

Win Ultimate 7 x64. Add Rightclick  menu causes the rightclickmmenu of the desktop to open very very very slow. As in 20/30 seconds later.

When i disable the rightclick and loggoff/login it comes up normally. Enble and it goes slow again

on Nov 12, 2010

petrossa
Great work. One issue:

Win Ultimate 7 x64. Add Rightclick  menu causes the rightclickmmenu of the desktop to open very very very slow. As in 20/30 seconds later.

When i disable the rightclick and loggoff/login it comes up normally. Enble and it goes slow again

We had a report of slow right click on the desktop which apparently was tracked down to some other app other than WindowFX.  Are you sure you did not install something else recently?  Intel video drivers used to cause very slow desktop right clicks for example.

on Nov 12, 2010

tracked down to some other app
If you have an nVidia card with the 260.xx drivers, make sure you have  NvXDSync.exe running in taskmanager. If it isn't it will take over 20 seconds for the r-click menu to appear.

on Nov 12, 2010

Thank you so much for including the sliders I requested for animation speed!

on Nov 13, 2010

tracked down to some other app If you have an nVidia card with the 260.xx drivers, make sure you have  NvXDSync.exe running in taskmanager. If it isn't it will take over 20 seconds for the r-click menu to appear.

 That did the trick. One issue, if you rightclick on the border  and the menu appears, not choosing an option causes the Windowblinds skin to minimize the window to topborder alone.

on Nov 13, 2010

Just installed the beta.

Really nice !!

 

Time to go back playing with it

on Nov 15, 2010

tracked down to some other app If you have an nVidia card with the 260.xx drivers, make sure you have  NvXDSync.exe running in taskmanager. If it isn't it will take over 20 seconds for the r-click menu to appear.  That did the trick.

Update. Weirdness with rightclick/nvidia CPL.

If rightclick enabled all goes well till you reboot. After reboot rightclick desktop menu comes very slowly and the NVIDIA cpl link has disappeared.

Disabling and rebooting the desktop rclick comes up normal but without the Nvidia cpl link. A reinstallation of the driver package is necessary to get the cpl back. Nvidia drivers 260.xx

 

 

 

on Nov 15, 2010

A reinstallation of the driver package is necessary to get the cpl back. Nvidia drivers 260.xx

I had trouble with the new installer that nVidia went to. Specifically, it failed to install PhysX. I had to reinstall everything using the new custom option which allows a clean install by removing all old drivers first. I've had no trouble after that with services or processes failing to start on reboot. You may need to start over as well.

on Nov 15, 2010

You don't want to know how many times i've seen the new instraller logo. I'm at Version 261.00 now. That actually works very good but i never install PhysX nor 3D. I don't game.

The rclick issue remains however. As soon as you enable it the Nvidia CPL link disappears and the link on the main Control Panel becomes inactive.

 

 

on Nov 15, 2010

I'm loving the speed adjustments on the animations!!  Thanks!

on Nov 16, 2010

A feature request.  Clicking on the desktop makes it active and removes the overlay.

Use case: I want to select an icon from the desktop and drag it to the active window . . but because of the overlay I cannot see the correct icon.

on Nov 18, 2010

I do have one issue with Inactive Windows on the RC of Windows FX 4 - Sticky Notes running and active causes the desktop to lose focus- even though technicially, it "sits" on the desktop, and is a desktop app. I guess . Can this be fixed? This appears to be the only gadget that has this issue. Working great otherwise 

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