Fences - Hiding Fences/Desktop Icons
Suggestion: Add alternate icon and fence hiding hotkey.
Friday, February 6, 2009 by J-Mac | Discussion: Fences
I just installed Fences and got it all set up, though I'm sure I will be modifying it for a while! Looks really nice; I love the concept - I have been fighting with Desktop icon layouts forever. I even tried to do something similar a couple of years ago using ObjectDoc, but that didn't work out too well. Creating the containers was simple enough, but whenever I had anything opened full screen the dock containers would show through. I don’t even use most of my desktop icons - instead I use a program by DonationCoder.com called Find and Run Robot (FARR) for launching applications and also for searching my computer. But there are a few desktop icons that I prefer to keep on my desktop, but I have always hated when I organize them a certain way and then always lose that organization. So Fences works out well for me.
A request I have for Fences: Can you make the hotkey for hiding the desktop icons and Fences configurable? And/or add it to the context menu? I use Directory Opus for my file manager instead of Windows Explorer and Directory Opus already ties up the double-click on the desktop. When I double-click my desktop now a new Directory Opus Lister opens up. So currently I cannot hide my icons or Fences, as double-clicking just opens more file listers here.
Thank you.
Jim
Reply #2 Saturday, February 7, 2009 6:09 PM
Thank you. What I have done for now is to turn that feature off in Directory Opus, though I really miss that ability. For the record, I also asked the developer of Directory Opus to offer configurability for that feature.
Thanks again!
Jim
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Reply #1 Friday, February 6, 2009 4:45 PM
Hi Jim,
Since its not configurable in the mean time, you can try the built-in hotkey: press escape while the desktop is active to toggle your icons. Enjoy!