Reducing this Sensitive Box
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Reducing this Sensitive Box
hey you...
I am finding this sensitive, custom colored green box quite too large rendering the passive pane a little bit messy for me to deal with. Is there a way to restrain it to the file name instead of the whole 'name' field as it currently is?
I am finding this sensitive, custom colored green box quite too large rendering the passive pane a little bit messy for me to deal with. Is there a way to restrain it to the file name instead of the whole 'name' field as it currently is?
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Re: Reducing this Sensitive Box
Untick this: Configuration | General | Menus, Mouse, Usability | Mouse | Full name column select
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Re: Reducing this Sensitive Box
Problem solved, thanks much.
Guys, what SetFocusTo ini entry is responsible for? On the other hand, is there a way to enforce focus to stay preferably at the lists instead of the tree?
Guys, what SetFocusTo ini entry is responsible for? On the other hand, is there a way to enforce focus to stay preferably at the lists instead of the tree?
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SetFocusTo controls TAB sequence (where does focus go when you press TAB):
; Tweak: 1 = Tree > List, 2 = Catalog > List, 4 = Address Bar > List, 8 = Favs > List, 16 = Tab > List
What exactly do you mean by "stay preferably at the lists instead of the tree"?
; Tweak: 1 = Tree > List, 2 = Catalog > List, 4 = Address Bar > List, 8 = Favs > List, 16 = Tab > List
What exactly do you mean by "stay preferably at the lists instead of the tree"?
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Re: Reducing this Sensitive Box
thanks for the comment, admin.
for security and practical reasons, I'd rather prefer the selection focus to stay confined between either a single pane or one of them, when in dual pane mode.
I often do shift+dels to permanently delete stuff. Fortunately I managed to stop and checking the operation before I could do any mess, but there's a clear danger here I'd like to avoid.
The selection focus consistently staying at the tree also makes navigation a tad difficult to me (for instance, I press a "g" to cycle among g-started items listed in a pane, XY jumps way down to a g-started folder present on tree; if I press it a single time, pressing F7 sends me back to the original location, often needing to press TAB two times so I get the intended focus on list). I'm trying to find a way to make things different.
for security and practical reasons, I'd rather prefer the selection focus to stay confined between either a single pane or one of them, when in dual pane mode.
I often do shift+dels to permanently delete stuff. Fortunately I managed to stop and checking the operation before I could do any mess, but there's a clear danger here I'd like to avoid.
The selection focus consistently staying at the tree also makes navigation a tad difficult to me (for instance, I press a "g" to cycle among g-started items listed in a pane, XY jumps way down to a g-started folder present on tree; if I press it a single time, pressing F7 sends me back to the original location, often needing to press TAB two times so I get the intended focus on list). I'm trying to find a way to make things different.
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Huh? This is not the XY I know.Slideshow BoB wrote: ↑14 Oct 2025 18:31 The selection focus consistently staying at the tree also makes navigation a tad difficult to me (for instance, I press a "g" to cycle among g-started items listed in a pane, XY jumps way down to a g-started folder present on tree...
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Re: Reducing this Sensitive Box
I'm kind of surprised, too. Used XY for quite some time, now a returning user, fresh install. This wasn't a problem back then.
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What you describe does not happen. Check it again.
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Too bad I can't trust my eyes, feelings and actual existential fear of deleting entire project folders by mistaken.
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Another erratic trigger: I have set double click to open a new tab, what it does. Then the focus goes immediately to the address bar, thus leading my muscle memory to falsely think hitting TAB a single time fixed it to focus the list as it should ever be. Why?! I don't know.
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Did you know that you can prevent the deletion of items in the tree by key?Slideshow BoB wrote: ↑14 Oct 2025 22:00 Too bad I can't trust my eyes, feelings and actual existential fear of deleting entire project folders by mistaken.
Configuration | General | Safety Belts, Network | Safety Belts | Disallow delete by key in folder tree
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Again:Slideshow BoB wrote: ↑14 Oct 2025 22:17 Another erratic trigger: I have set double click to open a new tab, what it does. Then the focus goes immediately to the address bar, thus leading my muscle memory to falsely think hitting TAB a single time fixed it to focus the list as it should ever be. Why?! I don't know.
Double-click where? Are you maybe using Custom Event Actions that you then forget about? This could also explain your other strange reports.
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