It would appear that on Jun 5, Vincent van Ravesteijn did say:
> You can freely relocate the side-bar to your wishes.
>
> WARNING: LyX seems to crash often when you do.
>
> On 5-6-2011 16:23, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> >
> > Well if it wouldn't make it crash... I might prefer it took up some of my
> > vertical screen space (fewer lines per page) rather than taking up some of
> > my horizontal space (fewer words per line) But Not so much as to be worth
> > frequent crashes...
>
> You can safely try it... if it succeeds, don't touch it again ;).
>
OK Now I think I understand you mean that sometimes LyX crashes while
relocating the sidebar rather than frequent crashes just using the
relocated sidebar... Perhaps I will try that then.
NOTE: I just booted into my PCLinuxOS installation where the LyX 2.0.0 is
installed to test this {& the shortcuts below of course} And I'm not
sure I'm doing this right... But the only method I found to move
this was to click on a small button labeled with a circular symbol
{perhaps an "o"} that's next to the little "x" marked button that
would close it. This appears to undock and redock the sidebar so
that it's more like the old pop-up that liked to hide the context.
Once ‘undocked’ I can drag it around and/or re-size it with the mouse.
But when I attempt to use it in the undocked state it not only
tends to hide the context of the word in question, But on the main
text window the suspect word doesn't even get hi-lighted like it does
when this spellchecker is ‘docked’ as a sidebar. So moving it does
little to help me spot the context I need to review...
> > Besides relocating it isn't the problem. I just want the keyboard shortcuts
> > to work right and especially to be able to dismiss the durned thing with the
> > keyboard, when I'm done spellchecking...
>
> Crtl+Shift+F should hide the pane again. Just like pressing Alt-x twice.
Well That I will try... If it works it will go a long way to making me
comfortable with the new spellchecker interface.
Unfortunately this didn't work. The Ctrl+Shift+F shortcut calls up another
sidebar with some find sidebar. And Alt-x is a toggle for a command line box
of some kind. At least that's what it does when the spellchecker sidebar
doesn't have the focus... Funny how the spellchecker can stop Alt-x from
calling up said command input box. But it doesn't stop the ‘File’, ‘Insert’,
and ‘Document’ pull down menus from messing with the ‘Find Next’, ‘Ignore’, &
‘Add’ buttons???
Since to me the mouse in an uncomfortable, non-intuitive, & sometimes
problematical control interface I really detest having to resort to it every
time I need to ADD, or IGNORE a word. Not to mention close the spell checker
dialog... At least I don't have much use for the ‘Find Next’ button or I'm
sure that shortcut conflict would bother me as well.
Thanks anyway...
Gosh! I surely do hope these shortcut problems are due to some modification
made only in the version of 2.0.0 found in the PCLinuxOS repository. Please
tell me that's the problem. Cause once v2.0.0 trickles it's way through Arch
Linux and Ubuntu, I won''t have a lot of choice about upgrading to it...
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