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DeskLayerNewsDeskLayer: Smoother day-to-day
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DeskLayer: Smoother day-to-day

DeskLayer · published 28 Jul 2026, 14:37 UTC

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DeskLayer: Smoother day-to-day

Windows and the dock get along better


• Summon the dock over a maximized app without it flickering or resizing your window. Maximizing now snaps instantly, with no slow animation or blink.
• When a window covering the dock is minimized, the dock and your widgets come back on their own instead of staying hidden.
• Widgets stay between a video wallpaper and your apps, so they no longer vanish behind the wallpaper.
• Auto-hide taskbars close faster when you move the cursor away.

Editors: place things precisely


• The edge magnet is far less grabby. You can leave a small margin near an edge instead of the tile snapping flush, and holding Alt still places completely freely.
• In the widget editor, right-click a layer (or double-click it) for the full menu: Edit properties, Duplicate, Lock, Group, Arrange layer, Delete. A layer is now a real handle on the item, not just reordering.

Onboarding and reliability


• The welcome tour now follows the window when you maximize or resize it, instead of dimming the wrong area.
• "Apply a starter look" shows the taskbar even if you never turned it on, and the Starter preset now keeps a proper wallpaper thumbnail.
• Reloading DeskLayer's modules no longer freezes or comes back blank and slow on a busy multi-bar setup.

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Game update13 Sep 2026DeskLayer Stability UpdateFixed idle freeze / slow interaction · Fixed issues where the dock, taskbar, tray, clock, and app tabs became extremely slow after prolonged idle periods. · Reduced accumulated background work clogging the WPF Dispatcher. · Offloaded heavy operations such as AppBar, Explorer, and window handling to background threads. · Added a watchdog and recovery mechanism to detect hung dispatchers. · Preve…Game update12 Sep 2026DeskLayer Update: Widget Editor Text Scaling and Stability FixesA major update is now live focusing on core system stability, eliminating UI freezes in Gap Mode, resolving responsiveness issues, and improving the Widget Editor. Core Stability and Performance · Fixed UI Freezes and Hangs in Gap Mode Resolved an issue where running in Gap Mode or switching between maximized windows could trigger an infinite occlusion reveal loop, leading to UI thread starvati…Steam news11 Sep 2026Transparent Status: Idle UI Latency & Why Marketing Has Been QuietHey everyone, DeskLayer v1.1 is out, but I want to address the elephant in the room and sincerely apologize for being so quiet lately, as well as the complete lack of proper marketing around this release. To be completely honest, I couldn't bring myself to actively promote or hype up the app while knowing a critical issue was still affecting daily productivity. As a solo developer, putting on a…