Clear instructions for stacking tabs
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@james1618 That would be the right mouse button, as opposed to the left mouse button. I know. I hate the proliferation of initials and abbreviations for everything, too.
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Thank you. Pardon my ignorance. How to access context menu?
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@james1618 RM button ^^
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I am getting more confused as we proceed. My goal is to make one stack tab with the grouped tabs within it. This is to save screen space. When I shift-click two tabs and R click and select new tab stack I get another row with the two tabs in it and the original two tabs are still in the top tab row. Instead of reducing two two tabs to one stack I have created two pair of the tabs. ? Please instruct me.
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@james1618 Pressing the right mouse button over an element produces the context menu for that element.
For instance, if you multi-select several tabs, (hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard while selecting one tab after another with your mouse) and then hover the mouse cursor over one of these selected tabs and press the right mouse button, a menu will appear. One of the options in that menu will be "stack (certain number of) selected tabs." That menu that the right-click produces is called a context menu.
Why is it called a "context" menu? Because the menu is different from place to place, depending on the context.
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@james1618 Do not select "new tab stack." Select "stack (number of) selected tabs."
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Control click two tabs. R click one of them to open context menu. There is no item "select stack number of tabs." The only item with a 2 in it is "Stack tabs by host. (2 of mail.google.com)"
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Cheers, mib
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@james1618 What is your Vivaldi version? Have you disabled tab stacking in Settings, Tabs, Tab Stacking?
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@james1618 Are the tabs you are working with pinned tabs?
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@Pesala What do you click to get that menu? When I R click in one of the tabs I get a different menu.
Tab stacking is enabled. Ver. is: 3.7.2218.58; Latest. -
@james1618 You right-click on one of the selected tabs. Are you dealing with pinned tabs?
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That was my first error. I unpinned them all. When I R click no info about pin/unpinned.
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@james1618 Unpinned tabs will stack. Pinned tabs will not.
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As I replied earlier:
@james1618 Pinned Tabs cannot be stacked like unpinned tabs with drag and drop. If you need this, go to Settings, type "unpin" and assign a suitable shortcut to Pin/Unpin Tab. I use Shift+P because that is easy for me to remember.
Next, select two or more pinned tabs with Ctrl+Click, and execute the shortcut to pin them.
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Somehow I got three tabs into a stack...I think, because the tab has a light grey border and when I click on it it drops down the three tabs. I was able to name the stack. But the stack icon remains that of one of the tabs in the stack.
Second issue. Why sometimes when I attempt to create a stack the stack remains in the one top tabs bar and other times there is a second line of tabs created? -
@james1618 Every stack shows with an outline in the main line of tabs, like a single tab. When you click on it, however, it creates a second line that shows all the tabs in the stack. When you merely hover it, and have popup thumbnails enabled, a thumbnail for every tab in the stack appears.
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Ah So! Hover drops icon list: click creates second line. Thank you all for your patience.
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@james1618 So if you don't have popup thumbnails enabled, you can enable them. Then every time you hover a stack, it will show you all the tabs in it. Then if you click on the stack a second line with access to each of the individual tabs in the stack is created.
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@james1618 That's why we volunteer.