microsoft / microsoft/PowerToys
FancyZones zone activation suddenly more complicated
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Description
### Microsoft PowerToys version
0.98.1
### Installation method
Microsoft Store
### Area(s) with issue?
FancyZones
### Steps to reproduce
Hold down SHIFT, drag one window into a fancy zone, then while still holding SHIFT, try to drag another window, then another.
### ✔️ Expected Behavior
Each window drag should activate Fancy Zones (since the shift key is being held continuously)--this is how it worked until recently.
### ❌ Actual Behavior
The first window snaps into place, but it's like you let up on the shift key after that, so the subsequent drags don't snap the windows into place properly. This wouldn't be so bad except that there's a longstanding bug (probably in Windows?) where every time you restart, windows are restored to not quite their original sizes, so in order to restore them to their proper sizes, I have to re-Fancy Zones most windows. The zones I'm experiencing this with are mostly fairly simple (two or three vertical splits), though it also happens with more complicated zones.
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### Additional Information
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.26200.8246]
.NET (most of them, latest--I'm a developer)
### Other Software
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Contributor guide
Research direction
No source files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reproducing the issue in FancyZones on Windows 10.0.26200.8246 with PowerToys 0.98.1: hold SHIFT while dragging several windows, then trace the activation handling. Done means every drag activates FancyZones while SHIFT remains held.
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Assessment
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100