Is there a way to make a specific lister stand out?

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Hi all,

I often have a dozen listers open, sometimes they are even dual listers. Is there a way to make a lister stand out? I'm thinking changing the task bar icon or tab colour, lock a lister so it can't be closed without confirmation, something like that. Even changing the Dopus sun icon into a different colour instead of the usual yellow.

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Changing the background color (or image) of some or all of the lister is one quick way to make a window stand out from others.

E.g. This would make everything red (probably not the color you'd want for real, but demonstrates the command):

Set BACKGROUNDIMAGE=all BACKGROUNDIMAGEOPTS=fillcolor:#ff0000

That should get saved as part of the layout, if you're using a layout to create the window.

3

That's great, but still requires me to open the window. If I could change the icon colour, that would immediately stand out

4

There isn’t a way to do that per window.

You could set a custom window title which would be visible from the taskbar when hovering (although the background colour would be too) or if it’s ungrouped.

If the taskbar is grouped you can also move windows into separate groups, which might work well. Let me know if you want details on how that’s done.

5

In Prefs, I can see I can change the icon or title, but can I just change it for one lister window?

6

You can change the title for just one window via the Set LISTERTITLE command. (It'll be saved as part of layouts etc.)

There isn't a way to set a custom window icon (other than configuring Opus to use the folder's icon as the window icon, and giving the folder a custom icon).

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That sounds like the best plan for the mo, thanks Leo. How do I do that? I tried in the Opus CLI and just got,

"Error at line 1, position 17
Set Listertitle Docs
                ^
Expected '=' (0x800a03f3)
Parse error - script aborted"

so I tried with a = and with quotes

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Looks like the CLI was in script mode. It should work if you turn that off at the bottom of it.

Alternatively, type > into the file display to open a quick command field and it’ll work there too.

(Or create a toolbar button to run it, as another option.)