Lister Placement on Opeing

Whenever I double-click the desktop, and a lister opens, it does so in the extreme bottom right corner of the screen.

How can I set placement of where on the screen a Lister will open?

Regards,
Chuck Billow

What do your options look like on the prefs pages below?




Steje:

The setting "Always over mouse cursor" did that. Thanks.

Now, if my desktop in hidden, and I d-click the tray icon instead, is there a setting for this one as well? 'Cause if I go back to "Default behavior, I'm back where I started, and if I use "Always in same position" they stack one on top of other -- can I cause them to cascade, maybe?

Regards,
Chuck Billow

No problem, but I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "Cause if I go back to Default behavior, I'm back where I started"... I thought that the "Always over the mouse pointer" option was what was causing the behavior...?

If it "also" happens with the "Default behavior" option selected, then I'd say that the position of your lister is actually being stored in the default lister layout... To fix, open a lister, arrange it how you'd like, then run the Settings->Set As Default Lister menu option... 'should' fix it.

(actually... we seem to have found a bug... maybe)

About cascading... what you could do is define a new "user command":

  • enter into customize mode
  • select the "Commands" tab
  • select the "User" category
  • click on the 'New User Command' button and give the new command whatever name you want
  • in the command edit window, have it run:

Go NEW
Set LISTERCMD=Cascade

  • click 'ok' out of the customize dialog
  • goto Settings->Preferences->Launching Opus and on the From the Desktop and From the Taskbar icon pages, set both to Run a defined User Command by specifying the name of the new user command you created in the steps above.

I "think" this will give you the sort of effect you're looking for... but at the cost of losing any "specific" position you may have placed previously opened lister in...

I'll comment on the apparent bug I mentioned above later...

[quote="steje"]No problem, but I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "Cause if I go back to Default behavior, I'm back where I started"... I thought that the "Always over the mouse pointer" option was what was causing the behavior...?

If it "also" happens with the "Default behavior" option selected, then I'd say that the position of your lister is actually being stored in the default lister layout... To fix, open a lister, arrange it how you'd like, then run the Settings->Set As Default Lister menu option... 'should' fix it.

(actually... we seem to have found a bug... maybe)

About cascading... what you could do is define a new "user command":

  • enter into customize mode
  • select the "Commands" tab
  • select the "User" category
  • click on the 'New User Command' button and give the new command whatever name you want
  • in the command edit window, have it run:

Go NEW
Set LISTERCMD=Cascade

  • click 'ok' out of the customize dialog
  • goto Settings->Preferences->Launching Opus and on the From the Desktop and From the Taskbar icon pages, set both to Run a defined User Command by specifying the name of the new user command you created in the steps above.

I "think" this will give you the sort of effect you're looking for... but at the cost of losing any "specific" position you may have placed previously opened lister in...

I'll comment on the apparent bug I mentioned above later...[/quote]

Steje:

The cascading part of the customization works great - but (thanks so far in any case):

The original lister is resized to be near-full-screen, as well as any after. The original size params are ignored.

I tried with and without the auto-update of default checked.

Is there a way to fix this?

Regards,
Chuck Billow

Hmmm... I noticed the same when I tried it out as well, but it's not so much that all listers opened like this are 'near-full-screen' so much as 'size-balaned' to take up as much of the desktop space... the more listers you open in this fashion, the smaller each one becomes to preserve the cascade effect... but I know what you mean, it's not necessarily what each person would 'want' to happen. Not sure this is a 'bug' so much as just 'the way it works'...

So in this case I "think" there might be a small bugette like I mentioned before, that... if addressed should produce the results I think you're looking for.

  • I would have expected that simply updating your default lister to make it so that it is NOT maximized, and choosing the 'Default behavior' option we were discussing before would have made it sort of like opening other non-maximzed apps in windows, where the system would open the window and sort of cause subsequent windows to 'cascade' but at the 'size' you had saved your default lister layout with... instead, it seems to be behaving exactly the same as 'Open under mouse pointer'... which I 'believe' is a bug. I'll file a report on it...

[quote="steje"]Hmmm... I noticed the same when I tried it out as well, but it's not so much that all listers opened like this are 'near-full-screen' so much as 'size-balaned' to take up as much of the desktop space... the more listers you open in this fashion, the smaller each one becomes to preserve the cascade effect... but I know what you mean, it's not necessarily what each person would 'want' to happen. Not sure this is a 'bug' so much as just 'the way it works'...

So in this case I "think" there might be a small bugette like I mentioned before, that... if addressed should produce the results I think you're looking for.

  • I would have expected that simply updating your default lister to make it so that it is NOT maximized, and choosing the 'Default behavior' option we were discussing before would have made it sort of like opening other non-maximzed apps in windows, where the system would open the window and sort of cause subsequent windows to 'cascade' but at the 'size' you had saved your default lister layout with... instead, it seems to be behaving exactly the same as 'Open under mouse pointer'... which I 'believe' is a bug. I'll file a report on it...[/quote]

Glad to have been of service! :slight_smile:

Thanks though Steje, you've opened up new possibilities for me...
Regards,
Chuck Billow

Many moons ago, in v9 of Directory Opus, I was told how to get the lister to open in a set position when opened by double-clicking the desktop.

Looking now at v11, I don't see where / how to set that again. I know I'm just missing it, but where / how do I do it?

Regards,
Chuck Billow

Probably all you need:

Preferences / Launching Opus / Default Lister / Always in the same position