Telemacus wrote:...if you use a double pane, the program actually "sees" both, the directory in your active pane + the last active dir in the other pane and will only display the note when BOTH have been selected
And therein lies the problem - Notezilla uses the
title of the active window as the trigger for the note itself - and in dual-pane mode x2's window title is composed of both folders, so Notezilla waits for an exact match. The only practical workaround is to only use single-pane mode, as then the title is simply the folder itself.
As noted above by
gautambjain, Notezilla does allow a very limited ability to match window titles, in that when you assign a note to a window, you can double-click an entry in the list of widows and edit it - say to something like "*Desktop*" which would display the note whenever the desktop folder is displayed in either the right or left pane, regardless of what the other pane was displaying.
This is impractical in the sense that it isn't necessarily the "active" pane, but Notezilla obviously isn't geared towards dual-pane explorers, and (for obvious reasons) x2's title is composed of both panes.
So, you have a couple of choices:
1. Use Single-pane mode
2. Target your notes to more "generic" window titles (where it only looks for a single folder-name) - if Notezilla had more advanced options for this (other than * wildcards) you could be more successful, but to do it properly they would have to amount to a regex matching system which would be somewhat crazy.
3. Request that x2 only compose the window title from the "active" pane, much like in single-pane mode. (I'd take a guess and say this would not be granted on the grounds of it being of use to very very few users.)
4. Write yourself a "background script" which would constantly set/reset x2's active window title with
only the active pane path (or the contents of the addressbar, which is roughly the same thing). Obviously this is a more complex solution, but not impossible. (It would be easy enough to create at least a proof-of-concept script with a bit of thought - but would require more work to make it idiot-proof. If you don't know how to begin doing this, depending on my threshold for self-inflicted pain, I could play with this a bit, just for fun, but I make no promises.) An entertaining side-effect of this method is that you could also "fix" the <Del> key usage in scrap containers while you were at it just for a laugh - but that would not be the main purpose.
5. Request from Notezilla that they implement support for other file-managers (or, in particular that they allow the targeting of a specific control within the active window, not just the title - but I imagine they too would rule that out as being too specific per application for widespread development). Considering that all 3rd-party file managers have different formats for this, keeping compatibility would be a small nightmare, and only they can gauge whether that's worthy of investment. That said, small programmes such as
Listary do go out of their way to provide excellent 3rd-party support for alternate file-managers, so it's not unreasonable to expect.
