Published on October 31, 2017 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Fences is one of our most popular desktop apps for Windows! It allows you to sort and organize your icons and folders into customizable “fences” on the desktop. Some of the coolest things about Fences are the customization features you can apply to make your fences look and function how you want them to.

Get Fences here.

In this guide, I'll show you some common customizations and how you can adjust and apply them to your fences.


Adjusting color and transparency
This is probably one of the most popular customization options available in Fences. Open the Fences configuration window and click the "Color & appearance" tab. Here, you will see most of the customization options you have to work with. You'll have several sliders which will allow you adjust the colors and transparency of your fences. Just use the sliders to apply the amount of transparency you want, and adjust the various coloring sliders to change the colors of the fences. You can apply these settings to all fences, or choose individual ones by selecting that option in the drop-down menu.

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Changing the opacity of a fence
Adjusting the transparency slider in the configuration won't affect the opacity of your icons inside a fence. If you want to adjust the opacity of the fence and icons, then right-click inside a fence, select View, then Opacity, and adjust it to where you want it to be.

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Re-sizing fences
When creating a new fence, you can draw the dimensions of the fence by clicking and dragging with your mouse. Some people don’t realize that you can change the dimensions of a fence just by grabbing the edge of the fence and dragging it with your mouse to resize it. While re-sizing a fence, you can also hold down the Shift key to disable snapping for a more precise placement.

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Learn more about Fences here.

Fences is also available as part of the low-cost membership to Object Desktop.  While you're a member, you'll get free updates, access to all betas, and any new apps for one year. You’ll also get access to other great programs like Start10, DeskScapes, WindowBlinds, Multiplicity, and many more! Learn more about Object Desktop here.


Comments
on Oct 31, 2017

I really love the hover over transparency settings and the portals feature. Very cool parts of this program!

on Aug 22, 2018

How do I restore "Configure Fences" to the mouse right-click context menu? After installing DeskScapes, it was removed. Fences is still operational, just not easily accessible as it was before.

I look forward to your replies.

 

Regards,

Jerry

on Aug 22, 2018

jerryberns

How do I restore "Configure Fences" to the mouse right-click context menu? After installing DeskScapes, it was removed. Fences is still operational, just not easily accessible as it was before.

I look forward to your replies.

 

Regards,

Jerry

Hello,

Update your snapshot in fences then run the Purge for fences Reboot and install

the latest version of fences your snapshots will be there to revert back too and

now your " Configure Fences " should be back on your right click menu

Fences Purge link : https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq#reinstalling

 

 AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

on Aug 24, 2018

Thanks, AzDude.

The other day I was able to restore 'Configure Fences' to the context menu. This is useful in case I need it in the future.

 

Regards,

Jerry