Is it possible to left align a Fences Label Text?

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I have just installed Fences and keep several fences of varying widths rolled up to the left of my screen.

The problem is the text labels look messy as they are centre justified.

I can't find a way of left justifying the labels so they all line up with each other.

Can this be done?  If so - please tell me how.

I did google and search this forum - but apart from a feature request - could not find any solution.

Thanks.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I don't think there's an official way but you can try adding space characters to the end of your titles until they are basically left-aligned. If your set of fences is pretty much fixed, that should work okay.

I don't know if they are needed (I can't test anything at the moment) but if regular spaces don't work, non-breaking space characters should remain at the end. To make one, hold alt while pressing 0 then 1 then 6 then 0 again on the number keypad (not the number bar). You can also try copying the non-breaking spaces between the quotation marks below.

non-breaking space: " "

narrow non-breaking space: " "

 

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Fences does not support anything but centered titles.
The non-breaking space method should work though. 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks for the  replies. Will try that out.

 

Also, I noticed that sometimes after a reboot, Fences does not display unless the tiles unless I run 'Fences' again - it just dumps all the icons in the approximate area of the fences.

Once I run Fences all is OK.

 

The Enable Fences box is ticked - so I assumed it would auto start each time I reboot...

 

 

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting umernalla, reply 3

Also, I noticed that sometimes after a reboot, Fences does not display unless the tiles unless I run 'Fences' again - it just dumps all the icons in the approximate area of the fences.
How long are you waiting?  Are any of the fences portal ones and are they pointing to a networked location?

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Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I did not realize I had to wait, I login, the screen comes up, and the icons appear all messes up, so I then run Fences and then the Fences then appear...

I will try waiting a bit longer...

 

EDIT: OK it takes a few seconds to populate the fences...

 

Cheers