How to Make Dual Display Independent from each other?

How to Make Dual Display Independent from each other?

New user -- I've searched thru the manual + online, also tried multiple different settings,
but haven't found my answer(s) yet. Thanks as always for any guidance you can give ....

What I want: at times, the ability to work on each side of a dual display independently of each other --

I can do this in xplorer2 -- instead of switching tabs, I can see 2 different folders at once --
then as I click or move through one side - it does NOT automatically synch to, or cause the other side, to synch together.

What's happening now: Let's say I have "some folder/drive" displayed on the Left, & then I open a dual display.

It doesn't matter whether "Specify a new folder when switching to dual file display" is checked or not,

anytime after I L-click on ANY folder on the Right side,
then the R side will become the same folder as the Left.

Sometimes I don't want this!!

I want to follow a different, independent folder trail on either side!

(though sometimes obviously i DO want both sides to be the same for copying, comparing, etc)

Also, Folder Options > Navigation Lock is OFF !!
I thought this might be the cause, but apparently not.

[Is this in any way related to when I've saved column layouts, I've clicked "Save the current folder format > For This Folder + Layouts & Folder Tabs"

instead of "Save the current folder format > For This Folder" ?]

Thanks again - so far, I keep finding elegantly beautiful, Zen-like solutions to all my questions/challenges.

For anyone who spends a majority of their waking hours in front of a monitor, working in the "thought-space of the mind",
it makes a HUGE difference to be able to have the colors, fonts, functions, etc etc perform in ways that are very pleasing to the senses ~
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Are you talking about two file-displays, or the folder tree and its file display, or something else?

File displays are completely independent of each other by default.

Though I mostly work with 1 tree / 1 file-display using multiple tabs,
I also use just 1 tree with 2 file-displays, so I understand that distinction.

I'm saying that I want to "un-sync" the 2 file displays -- I can NOT seem to click through one display without both of them syncing up together --
even with the "Navigation Lock" off ??

The two sides synching only happens when Navigation Lock is on. Are you absolutely sure it is off?

Note that it is a per-window setting, so it may be off in some windows but on in others. The Navigation Lock setting is also stored as part of the Default Lister and other layouts, so it may be on as soon as you open a window, if what you are opening was last saved when Navigation Lock was on.

If it's not that, the only other thing I can think of is that you've modified the command which is run when folders are double-clicked or something like that (but you'd probably know if you had).

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No matter which side I click on - both sides become the same!
I can click on any folder on either side, but that side will then become the same as the other side!

Where the heck in my Settings is this being triggered? :confused:

I've opened my Default Lister (& I really only use 1 Default Lister! [boring, yes]),
and as you can see, NavLock is OFF - I've then clicked on it to show the drop-shadow to indicate the ON state -- in the circled inset.

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What command does that navlock button run?

What's the command on the All Folders filetype's left double-click event?

Thanks for staying with me here -- I think I clicked around correctly to get the data you're asking for --->

I did Alt-Lclick on the NavLock button = Set NAVLOCK=Toggle

then I drilled down several other clicks in the menu & think I found the All Folders left double-click --->

go DESTPATH

Hope this is what you're asking for? if not, I may need more dummy-fied instructions :wink:

also, I have F6 ---> Set DUAL=Toggle , which I have bound to a StrokeIt gesture (V), to toggle Dual Panes on/off,

then I have Alt + F6 ---> Set DUAL=ToggleLayout, which I have bound to StrokeIt as V-reversed, to toggle back/forth between Vertical/Horizontal Dual Panes.

I also have enabled File Displays > Options > Single click to open an item, because I've used Hover/single click mode forever, to reduce mouse-clicks.

*note - I had made my way into the All Folders dialogue box a few days ago to try & configure something, but don't remember what it was,
and didn't document it -- which now I'm trying to document all the changes I make, since there are so dadgum many!

That go DESTPATH should only run go -- that's your problem right there.

ABSOLUTE! GOT IT!

now I rememer .... I was mucking around in there to try and get a new tab to open adjacent to previous tab -- my post from a couple days ago.
and that was the last thing I'd tried, and just left my garbage active in there.

Well, while I'm at it ... in that "Arguments" tab, what do the suffixes /K-M-O-S-R mean?
edit - just answered my own question by searching the manual - p.448,
so I will study this section to learn more of the programming side of things.

The next drink's on me! thx again Leo ~