Yup! It’s that noob, again.
Yup! It’s that noob, again.
How can I reduce the size of the invisible ‘background(?)’ around an icon, etc? The screenshot shows what I mean. I want to reduce the height of the box in which the icon is placed. This seems to be tied to the desktop grid layout, and is fine on the desktop, but the item in the screenshot is inside a folder ‘window’, I’m trying to use as a toggle able ‘dock’.
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That actually has to do with the number of rows and columns you have for that folder or desktop. Set it to a higher number of rows to make the vertical space around the icon smaller. Try around 8 or so. Keep in mind that this will affect any widgets that currently reside in that space, so you may need to resize those.
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in that view that you gave on the screenshot, in the right-margin menu click on the second option from the top and then select ‘detach from grid’. This will allow you to resize the container irrespective of the grid layout specifications at the desktop level
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Y’all are awesome. I know I’ll struggle with this for a while, but once it starts to ‘click’ for me, I should get ‘on the level’ pretty quickly.
Did LL seem THIS ‘foreign’ to you, in the beginning?
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Haha, still does, but in a good way. What helped for me was watching the various youtube videos covering the features and going over the wiki. Have not got far on the scripting side as I have as yet been unable to set aside time for it, but am looking forward to it 🙂
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Indelible Inkstain​​
Kustom was a bit awkward, at first…but even the Advanced Coding was a cake walk compared to LL ‘basics’. SMH
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As a third option, to add to what has already been suggested, what I do… You could put your dock stuff inside a panel. Then it could have it’s own grid size, and be easily scrollable if you want to hide/show the dock.
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Chris Chastain​​​
So…just scroll the items on/off screen, vs being able to ‘toggle’, via a gesture? Is that what you mean? 
Jeremy Whetzel​​​’s suggestion is proving difficult, since this is actually a ‘sidebar window’, and I can’t find those settings (columns & rows) for the ‘window’.
Also, these aren’t truly icons, the 1W ‘icon’ is a folder (displaying an app’s weather widget, upon touch) and the battery meter is a 1×1 Kustom widget, doubling as an app drawer shortcut.
The widget (battery ‘icon’) is being uncooperative about size, when I try to reduce the background height, after detaching from the grid (as suggested by Indelible Inkstain​).
My ideal outcome is to have this ‘dock’ no taller than necessary, containing 5-7 icon-sized items, and set to toggle on ‘swipe up’.
I have achieved MOST of this, as a sidebar window, but getting the height right is giving me a run for my money.
I’ve never been good at ‘keeping it simple’. LMBO
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Yep… Or both actually.
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Plus, then you can have a longer dock and scroll horizontally also
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Chris Chastain
Yay! 🙌
How can a panel be set to toggle (with a gesture)?
I was under the impression this was not possible for a panel.
(I took a step ‘back’ and restarted with the ‘sliding folders’ template. I figure I’ll reverse engineer and tweak it, until I’m ready to plummet from the nest on my own wings, but toggling the dock (panel) would be great!)
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No gesture is needed. You just scroll within the panel. Much more responsive than a gesture to trigger an action.
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To illustrate… This is my desktop in edit mode:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BznKSfF8oBq4UUFuZUF5Z2VKdUU/view?usp=drivesdk
You can see the panel selected at the bottom.
It is 5 col x 1 row.
It contains 1 row of items but the top (home) row is empty. Bottom row of items is 9 items wide. Scroll up to see them, left/right for more.
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Chris Chastain confused? 1 row would be the horizontal and col is the vertical, so how do you 9 items?
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H Tuttle just move it around as you add items in edit mode. Then scroll! 🙂
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I like an odd number so the app drawer icon is centered
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Looks like this, when dock is scrolled up.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BznKSfF8oBq4LVcxNmFOaHU2eFE/view?usp=drivesdk
Then of course you can scroll or fling left/right for the rest.
Controlled by stop points, both for snapping to center and for barrier to limit the ends.
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I also use TrianguloY​’s multi-container bookmark script to “close” all panels to home position with one tap in the center of the screen.
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Chris Chastain
Way to give a noob an inferiority complex! 😜 LOL
Beautiful layout, brother. Thanks for sharing your experience, and some ‘inspiration’.
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Chris Chastain​ last one for the night, are the stop points inside the panel? So with the script the panel itself becomes invisible? And how do you retrieve it?
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Stop points are inside the panel, yes.
No, the panel is always invisible, I guess.
I mean, it has transparent background and no borders, so it’s invisible, right? You only see the contents when scrolled into view. Panel itself does not move. It’s pinned.
The way the script works… You put all your panels, desktop, folders, whatever, in the position you want, and run the script. It bookmarks the position of every container and makes a new script.
Now, when you run the new script, all containers are returned to their positions at the same time. It’s pretty Damn cool, and I use it on all my setups.
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Chris Chastain​
Does your setup support landscape, as well, or is it a portrait-only layout. 
Also, is there an ‘easy’ way to set conditionals in LL based on screen orientation? (In Kustom, I used a TON of “$if(si(land)=1,x,y)$” conditionals to develop a full LWP, which supported both orientations.)
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Locked in portrait. I used to try and make everything work both ways, but found that I never use landscape once a video ends.
Now my tablet is locked in landscape but I have 2 apps (mainly 1) that only work in portrait, so I’ve got to get busy on that.
In LL you can have separate layouts for landscape and portrait. There ARE some issues, but in general it works ok.
In Settings -> Desktop -> Layout you’ll see “Settings below apply to…”
and at the bottom, enable Dual Position.
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Cool. Can I apply settings only to portrait, and have different settings for landscape, or just one set of options?
In other words, can I choose settings apply to portrait, set values, then select settings apply to landscape, set different values, and have LL automatically switch between the two modes, upon rotation?
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Yes, that’s the theory. There are caveats that some hit a wall with (seems like it had to do with different folder sizes for each orientation), but it’s mostly fine for my uses.
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Multi select is handy, no doubt.
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