FancyZones custom layout "shift+drag" not creating a group

[ghylander]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.55.2

Running as admin

• Yes

Area(s) with issue?

FancyZones

Steps to reproduce

Create a new custom layout
Press shift while dragging window and snap to zone
Snap a window to all of the layout's zones

✔️ Expected Behavior

A group is created

❌ Actual Behavior

A group is not created

This works when using the overlay shown when hovering over the "maximize-minimize" button

Other Software

No response

[SeraphimaZykova]

Thank you for reporting. What group do you mean?
/needinfo

[ghylander]

As seen in this screenshot, multiple windows can be grouped so you can bring all windows in the group to the front with 1 single action. You can mix windows from multiple apps, multiple shapes, not all spots in the group have to be occupied, etc

[franky920920]

I'm not sure if Windows 11 will allow us to do this.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/snap-your-windows-885a9b1e-a983-a3b1-16cd-c531795e6241#:~:text=SE.%20Learn%20more-,Snap%20groups,-When%20working%20on

[ghylander]

well, colour me surprised as I though the snap layouts that appear when you hover over the minimize-maximize button was introduced by FancyZones instead of W11 (since I installed both at roughly the same time AND the first custom layout I created for FancyZones is the same as one that appears in the snap layouts thing

Anyways, would be a great feature, as w11 does not allow you to customize layouts

[ghylander]

Hi
did you research on if this is possible (using the current w11 API or whatever)?
if it's not possible, feel free to close the issue

[themegaxandy]

This is duplicate of #16018

[SeraphimaZykova]

/dup #16018

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!