I am totally new to lightning and I have a simple question: is it possible to have more than one dock?
I am totally new to lightning and I have a simple question: is it possible to have more than one dock?
With dock I mean the Icon set at the bottom of the desktop. I use Apex at the moment where I have 2 docks which I can swipe through (both directions).
Thanks.
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you can make a dock with a panel expert mode might need to be enabled.
https://youtu.be/w4D4UJq9LEM
videos ancient but should still be alright
youtube.com – Lightning Launcher – “Embedded folders”, aka “panel”, aka “item box”, aka “dock”
Thank you. Indeed, the settings look different now. I several times now tried the example in the video but it stops working already when I try to reduce the ammount of Grid columns to 3 Colums per page. It still has 5 columns. So I guess that is the reason why I cannot move an Icon out of the panel and the panel would just expand. The icon is then just outside the panel, the panel stays fixed.
I don’t understand that yet 🙁
there a lot easier now we have the double toolbars it sounds like you have use desktop size checked in the panels layout settings. Can you screen record? if so show me what your trying to recreate from apex and il make a video how to do it in lightning.
Jay M No, desktop size is not activated.
Here what I can do in Apex, scroll around the 2 “Docks”:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vgBOkGc3Eq-DBJ7vqYwniu-cqh1LxioF/view?usp=drivesdk
here ya go mate somwhere near the end I remove the border from the panel twice reason for the 2nd time is an afterthought I thought i’d also show you there’s other options for the panel if you press on the box button.
https://plus.google.com/113157980543803349502/posts/8fVyN3m6Err
Get a 403 page with this link 🙁
ah yeah my bad that community’s private its posted in this one and that one though under tutorials so should be easy to find. You should join the private community azwell link for its here https://plus.google.com/communities/111427002111904170930
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Did it, hope I will be joined in soon…
nice 🙂 you probably figured this out already but on these screens you don’t have to press the button you can also swipe between them the ↑↓ button flips the view its also resizable by dragging the edge of it.https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uKNdd5hjucWYwa9opiDdFBZ41szmDQrUikO6whXsNQEfLvs2ojR277RgLKXwiBIbMKOUJDczZQ
Yeah! This works! Many thanks!!!
So basicly this dock is “just” a Panel with a special layout (e.g. “Seemless Mode X”) to have more than one page.
The Panel is fixed (as in “Dock Tutorial 1”) and it is above other objects (as in “Dock Tutorial 3”).
Seems easy if I know it, was not easy before 🙂
yeah at first its a lot to take in but once you know your way around it its actually quite easy. If your still looking to code your own version of zoom this link will come in handy it has the scripting API and a script repository so you can learn from other peoples code its also got a wiki which should help you figuring out the launcher itself.
http://www.lightninglauncher.com/wordpress/
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Thank!
Where can I find that “script repository”?
http://www.lightninglauncher.com/wiki/doku.php?id=script_repository
to make it easier to import them grab this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianguloy.llscript.repository there’s a lot of scripts posted straight to the public and private community azwell so might be worth a mooch through them.
lightninglauncher.com – script_repository [Lightning Launcher]
Jay M In the meantime, I have totally switched to LL and I am happy about it. Apex is gone, LL does the same for me.
I uninstalled the App “Zoom” now too, because I could very easily “program” a 1×1 Text Box in LL where I set a variable (Label) through a Tasker Task, which is enough for me. It is just to show the actual charging current (which can be either about 500 mA or 1 A).
Would be a bit nicer if I could set and change the color of the text but I am quite sure, then I would need to script it and just to set a variable in Tasker wont be enough. I will do this in the (near) future, since then I live with white on black 🙂
nice Apex was my last launcher azwell, for changing the color of the text checkout the bindings setting on the items properties long press the setting for more info on how to use it.
Thank! I thought only one variable I could set for each Text object, I didnt realize that I can just add under Bindings a variable for “Normal Color” to the Text object, which I can set then in antoher action in Tasker easily.
Works very charming now 🙂
Thank!
One thing I would like to set with my LL “Dock”: when I return to the “home” screen of my desktop (the first screen of my 3 screens), the dock should also switch to the first row (of 2 rows), but I don’t know how to set that first row as bookmark.
Is that possible?
I guess this is not possible, as I dont see any answer since a long time and this community was very fast in help till then.
Thank.
didnt see your comment, theres a bookmark option under the navigation category.
It is very possible and very easy. Just long press a blank area on your wallpaper and chose add, then chose ‘panel’ from the list.
The panel can be resized and moved to the bottom. You can add app shortcuts into the panel, set the panel’s background color/transparency, etc and scrolling direction such as horizontal only and make it loop back on itself or stop at the end. Plenty of options. You can either add 2 of these panels- one on top of the other (if you want the bottom to scroll independently from the top) or make a single panel two rows high if you want them to scroll together.
the way bookmarks work is this: first get the screen the way you want it to go when you click an icon (example, swipe to the desired desktop, panel position, zoom level, etc.) then long press a blank area and add a bookmark. This will add an icon that when pressed will take you back to this positions. Now you can move this icon somewhere else, such as another screen or position, change it’s icon image and label.
Jay M A Bookmark does not set the “dock” position back, unfortunately.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pRjSBXTiaLBmMvvUk-Yqnn-YyYUtGCYG/view?usp=drivesdk
hmm thought it would, only other thing i can think of is using script.
Jay M no worries, but let me say again that I am still thankful to get this hint from you in Tasker group to use LL as Launcher. Works so much better and is so good adjustable. Good!
hopefully the dev comes back soon and tells us what’s happening, its still lightyears ahead of most launchers though