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Post by **nikos** » 2007 May 18, 06:45

that could be the case when you have a window close to the right end of the primary monitor and you clone another one, which by the cascading effect slips to the other monitor

FrizzleFry · Post by **FrizzleFry** » 2007 May 18, 17:40

That makes sense but is there a way to prevent x2 windows from opening on the secondary monitor (other than disabling it)?

Post by **nikos** » 2007 May 18, 19:11

that's my lot in life, i fix one thing then 10 popup as a consequense like the hydra's heads

hint: if you make sure x2/e2 windows are sufficiently low in the first monitor (near the bottom) then cascading will "reset" to top left corner, ie windows stay in the same monitor

Atreus · Post by **Atreus** » 2007 May 18, 20:16

I'd been wondering someting for a while...

If I already have 1 or more instances of xplorer2 open, and open another, it will always open in the background instead of the foreground. is there any way to fix that?

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2007 May 19, 00:24

Please see this topic, et seq...

Atreus · Post by **Atreus** » 2007 May 19, 05:02

fgagnon wrote:Please see this topic, et seq...

Thanks for the prompt reply. I was going to use the precompiled AutoIT executables from here, but the links are no longer active

In all likelihood, if there's a way to further customize keyboard shortcuts as mentioned before so that i can use ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab to switch tabs, I'll move to tabs-only, but for right now having it come into the foreground would be great :/

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2007 May 19, 10:57

as mentioned in the ref topic -- you can use the /P commandline option to open a separate instance of x2 (it comes up on top).

see the user guide for more on using command line options.

Atreus · Post by **Atreus** » 2007 May 19, 10:58

fgagnon wrote:as mentioned in the ref topic -- you can use the /P commandline option to open a separate instance of x2 (it comes up on top).

see the user guide for more on using command line options.

I noticed that. How much more resources does it take? I don't want to bog my system down with it.

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2007 May 19, 11:06

not much -- the statement of concern is mostly from heritage habit of old f@rts (like me) who recall how dear memory used to be.
But Mbytes are so cheap now that it's usually more effective to not worry about it (unless your system is memory-starved for the way you use it). Best thing is to just try it and see if there's a problem in your case. I'll bet there's not.

PS (re: your earlier statement "... so that i can use ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab to switch tabs ...")
Although you cannot customize KB shortcuts to use the tab key, there are shortcuts for changing the active tab.
viz: Ctrl+Alt+leftarrow & Ctrl+Alt+rightarrow.

Atreus · Post by **Atreus** » 2007 May 19, 15:20

fgagnon wrote:not much -- the statement of concern is mostly from heritage habit of old f@rts (like me) who recall how dear memory used to be.
But Mbytes are so cheap now that it's usually more effective to not worry about it (unless your system is memory-starved for the way you use it). Best thing is to just try it and see if there's a problem in your case. I'll bet there's not.

Well, I decided to try going tabbed and it was pissing me off because it -still- didn't activate the window and bring it to the front. Due to that, I actually wound up downloading AutoIT and modifying that script for my own needs. Now, whether I've go tit in tabbed or windowed mode, here's what it does: Is xplorer2 open already? Ok, if it is then open the folder specified and bring it to the front. It's not open? Well, let's open the folder needed! It took me a while to figure out how to integrate a variable such as %1 from Windows, but I got it

AutoIT is a rather cool program

fgagnon wrote:PS (re: your earlier statement "... so that i can use ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab to switch tabs ...")
Although you cannot customize KB shortcuts to use the tab key, there are shortcuts for changing the active tab.
viz: Ctrl+Alt+leftarrow & Ctrl+Alt+rightarrow.

Yeah, I know about that, but it's kind of tedious for me compared to the 1-handed tab scheme. I'm trying out using capslocok insstead of tab right now, but I think i'm going to have to try something esle