FancyZones Layout Editor reverts to Priority Grid after changing active template using hotkey

[eseinbinder]

Microsoft PowerToys version

"0.61.1"

Running as admin

• Yes

Area(s) with issue?

FancyZones, FancyZones Editor

Steps to reproduce

1. Open Layout Editor, either using hotkey (Windows+`) or from PowerToys/FancyZones Settings tab
2. Make sure you assign a hotkey to at least one custom layout (i.e. Ctrl-Windows-Alt+1)
3. Select ANY Layout besides "Priority Grid" (either a built-in one or a custom one)
4. Close Layout Editor
5. RE-open layout editor via hotkey (Windows+`) OR from settings
6. Notice the same layout you chose in step 3 is still considered "active"
7. Close Layout Editor
8. NOW, press the hotkey to set the current layout to one of your custom layouts (i.e. Ctrl-Windows-Alt+1) (you will see the layout zones flash on the screen as confirmation)
9. RE-open layout editor via hotkey OR from settings
10. The layout editor will NOW "look" as if "Priority Grid" is the currently active layout, but it's really not (which you can prove by closing layout editor and dragging windows around). Unless you select a different layout while in the editor, the REAL active layout is the one you selected with the hotkey, even thought the editor displays a different one.

✔️ Expected Behavior

After setting the active layout using a hotkey, the layout editor should still display THAT layout as if it's the active one, instead of reverting back to "Priority Grid"

❌ Actual Behavior

layout editor shows the built-in "Priority Grid" layout as the active layout when launching the editor after selecting one via hotkey

Other Software

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[eseinbinder]

sorry, i hadn't tried doing this for a while. i haven't been using different layouts, so it became a moot issue. since i switched to 2 monitors, each with lower resolution than my one previous ultra-wide monitor, whenever i host a meeting, i just share one of my screens, and the dimensions are small enough for my coworkers; therefore, i dont need to switch to a lower resolution for meetings. that said, when i get a chance, i will test this out, and see if the behavior described above is still happening.

[eseinbinder]

sorry, i finally got a chance to see if this behavior is still there, and sure enough, in v0.83.0 it still behaves the way I described in the OP.

When you first open the layout editor, everything looks fine. Whatever layouts you've assigned to your monitor(s), they appear correct. However, once you use a hotkey to change the layout on a particular monitor, the next time you open the layout editor, ALL monitors will show "Priority Grid" as their current layout. And the weird thing is, now it ACTUALLY changes the assigned layouts to all monitors to Priority Grid; it's not just a misrepresentation of the current layout. so, if you ask me, this issue got a little worse. Originally, when i created this issue, i believe it was just a visual thing where the layout editor was saying that the selected monitor was using Priority Grid, even if it wasn't, but this time, when i saw that both monitors "switched" to Priority Grid, and then closed the layout editor, sure enough, both monitors had switched to the Priority Grid layout.

Mind you, if i had never opened the layout editor, the layouts wouldn't have changed on my monitors, so it's the act of opening the layout editor after using a layout hotkey to change the layout on any monitor that makes it so that the next time you open the layout editor, all monitors will have reverted back to Priority Grid automatically.

Please reopen this issue, since it's actually not fixed. Thank you. (i dont open the layout editor very often, if ever, so it's not a critical issue that's constantly causing me anguish; it's just something i noticed and thought, "hey, that's not supposed to happen like that.")