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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?

Untick this: Configuration | General | Menus, Mouse, Usability | Mouse | Full name column select

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?

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"?

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.

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...

Huh? This is not the XY I know.

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.

What you describe does not happen. Check it again.

Too bad I can't trust my eyes, feelings and actual existential fear of deleting entire project folders by mistaken.

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.

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.

Did you know that you can prevent the deletion of items in the tree by key?
Configuration | General | Safety Belts, Network | Safety Belts | Disallow delete by key in folder tree

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.

Again:
Double-click where? Are you maybe using Custom Event Actions that you then forget about? This could also explain your other strange reports.