PowerToys: Fancy Zones - Snapping a Window to Two or More Zones - Doesn't Work

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I recently downloaded power toys, saw fancy zones, and hit win+ backtick (`) to open it.

I checked the documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzones#snapping-a-window-to-two-or-more-zones

And checked the following under “Window Behavior”:

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And yet hitting win+ctrl+alt+arrows moves the windows, same as win+arrows without ctrl+alt.

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Hi, what’s the latest status for this issue? Been a number of releases in the mean time…

Wow, that’s a lot of information. Let’s try and break it into steps.

  • I can only assume you have the latest version installed. (and your windows version is probably not very old)
  • the gif shows Spotify, I assume this applies too other apps too, then?
  • there are quite a few settings for FancyZones, it might take a bit of time to get comfy with it and finding the correct settings for you. Also, PowerToys is not finished yet, so some bugs may still exist, although less and less over time.

The docs also say win+ctrl+alt allows the user to quickly switch layouts

  • this works if you have different layouts set up. Each one can be accessed via a hotkey, visible in the settings for that specific layout. Based on what I can see so far, you only have one (at least for each monitor).
  • to help developers, you can create a debug file with more info. Click on the tray icon, then “create zip”. Then you can drag it from your desktop into a comment here.
  • it would help to create different issues for different subjects, so if the Settings window issue persists, that may have an issue of its own. But, I also saw your comment on the new style, so I would just wait for that in the new update. (plenty more GUI style updates like this are waiting in line; it takes time…)
  • I see that the window is not resizing to zone 1, it’s just moving left and right, and the layout is not highlighted. Can you think of any other software on your pc that might interfere with hotkeys? Or other settings for FancyZones that make it not snap?