2.10g[b].013 does not show new replicas in virtual desktops

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Yesterday I updated from the previous beta of Objectbar to 2.10g[b].013.  And now, when I open a new program, its window does not become visible as a replica in the virtual desktops I have in Objectbar.  When I change to the desktop, the window is there, but it is just not showing as a replica in Objectbar.  The replicas do show up after using the "Retrieve All Windows" or "Recover Lost Windows" commands.  This used to work correctly in the previous beta.

Also, I have just noticed that the Objectbar icon is missing from the system tray.  That also was there in the previous beta.  I have checked and the option "Hide ObjectBar's icon from the system tray" is not set.  Setting it, hitting Apply, unsetting it, and hitting Apply again makes the icon show up in the system tray.  Again, this is a new problem with this beta version.

One more: The font used in the Theme Editor windows for the "Current Bar" value and lots of other titles is not being displayed properly.  The text is being cut off at the bottom so that only about two-thirds of the text is visble.  This problem was also present in the previous beta version.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It looks as though whatever is going on with the replicas not showing up is complicated. I unloaded Objectbar and started ControlCenter, and it is now suffering from the same problem! It was fine a few days ago when I installed the previous beta of Objectbar, but I have not used it since then. Any ideas on how to fix this? It is really making it difficult to use the virtual desktops.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What version of Virtual desktops are you running?
CursorFX - Customize your Windows cursor
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Stardock Central says it is the latest version: 2.09b[b].009. That has not changed from when things were working well though.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
OK, I uninstalled Objectbar and Stardock Virtual Desktops and reinstalled them both (virtual desktops first), and so far the problems seem to have gone away. Time will tell, and problems may come back after I reboot, as everything worked properly the first time I installed this Objectbar beta, with problems starting the next day after a reboot.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And the next day, when I started my PC, all the problems were back again: no ObjectBar icon in the system tray, and the virtual desktops in ObjectBar not showing any replicas for new things until I use "Retrieve all windows" or "Recover lost windows".

Interestingly, if I increase the size of the virtual desktops in the taskbar so that I can see replicas, and use them to change desktops, I do see the replicas there. But if I open something new, and use the virtual desktops in ObjectBar to change desktops, the replica of the new window that showed up in the taskbar virtual desktops disappears until I change back to the desktop where it is. If I use the taskbar virtual desktops to change desktop, it works correctly and the replica of the new window remains visible in the taskbar virtual desktops (but never becomes visible in the ObjectBar virtual desktops).

So, these problems are not present just after uninstalling and reinstalling Stardock Virtual Desktops and the latest ObjectBar beta, but they show up when I reboot. And they were not present when I was running the previous ObjectBar beta.

Do the ObjectBar programmers read these forums, or is there some other way I should be reporting this so that they will fix it?
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Do the ObjectBar programmers read these forums, or is there some other way I should be reporting this so that they will fix it?
They pop in but official support is email at [email protected]

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Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
JS, I am having a similar problem and wondered the same thing, whether this is possibly monitored. What I noticed, again after the last update, that my virtual desktops do seem to change most of the time but the dedicated wallpaper will not change, no matter what I do to try to get them to change, add another desktop and give it a dedicated wallpaper or run it from the taskbar, it will not change the wallpaper. I have this on two computers, the second worked while I had downloaded the new version but had not rebooted to finish it, once I did that, it acted the same as the first machine.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
One more bug has turned up in this beta. For the last few days, when I start my PC my ObjectBar "ControlCenter" lookalike opens, but is not drawn properly. The beige background colour I copied from the real ControlCenter is not being filled in. If I do something that causes it to be redrawn, such as go to the Theme Editor/Skin tab and select an alternate text color and then turn that option off again, the background is then drawn correctly until the next reboot. I do not believe this problem was happening after I first installed this beta, and it only seems to have started after I tried uninstalling and reinstalling.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Today ObjectBar seems to be working correctly. It looks as though my installing WindowBlinds 6.00[b].099 over the top of a previous version has fixed my problems in ObjectBar. Even though I do not actually run WindowBlinds (I only have it installed so that I could install SkinStudio 6 Professional 5.92[b].010 to use to set up things for my ObjectBar skin. Time will tell though, as I have only rebooted once since installing the new WindowBlinds.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It looks like most of the problems are gone in ObjectBar 2.10a.014. The problem with the ObjectBar icon not showing up in the system tray still remains though, but fixing the other two makes it properly usable again.