Clear instructions for stacking tabs
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The instructions I have found lead to pages that do not have the menu choice that is to be used.
Where can I fined detailed comprehensive instructions to set up tab stacking?
There are two pinned tabs. When I drag one over the other a box with dotted outline appears that covers both tabs. When I release the drag nothing happens there are still two tabs. One has a blue circular overlay with a 3 and the other has a +. -
@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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Thank you. That was a fundamental problem.
But...tabs will not create a stack. When I drag one tab over another a broken outline box appears over both tabs. When drop the tab nothing happens; the two tabs remain separate.
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@james1618 See Settings, Tabs, Tab Stack Options:
Allow Stacking by Drag and DropYou can also right-click to stack selected tabs, to stack tab by host, or stack tabs by hosts (creates multiple tab-stacks at once from different domains).
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@james1618
Hi, select all tabs you want to stack with Shift+Click, open context menu with RMButton > Stack selected tabs. Cool is also Stack by host.Cheers, mib
Hehe, @Pesala was faster, man when do you sleep? -
Thank you mib2berlin. What is "RM" button?
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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.