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
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
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":
Go NEW
Set LISTERCMD=Cascade
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":
Go NEW
Set LISTERCMD=Cascade
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.
[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.
Glad to have been of service!
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