Autohide Panels' Switch when you don't need it

[Johnex]

@dude99 It's possible to do some auditing after the fact if really needed. You can easily check what hosts it talks back to and what data is in the iso.

You can also make your own image using NTLite, it will basically remove any features you don't want, as well as the telemetry etc.

Anyway, don't be scared. Windows 11 runs for me as good as Windows 7 did

I'm honestly shocked you are on Win8, that one is the worst trash M$ released in a long time. Windows 10 got it back to the Win7 days.

[dude99]

@Johnex actually it's win8.1. It come with my PC back in 2015 & never bother to update it much... LOL I'm not much of a tech guy even though I can code a bit of CSS for fun.

[Zalex108]

@dude99

Go directly to W13

W12 is near already here it's the 4th W11 install,
3 customs 1 Original xD

[dude99]

@Zalex108 r u sure MS won't skip win13? 13 is a taboo number for tech giant for some "scientific" reason. Maybe they will go back to something like "Win 2023" instead.

[Zalex108]

@dude99

Right!

The Mystic 13

[supra107]

@dude99 Or they'll just make up some new name, remember how they've named their consumer oriented operating systems throughout the years:

1 > 2 > 3 > 95 > 98 > Me > XP > Vista > 7 > 8 > 10 > 11

It makes no sense, and why would it make sense?

[dude99]

@supra107

It makes no sense, and why would it make sense?

try name each xbox series, it's even more confusing & absolutely make no sense whatsoever... LOL

[barbudo2005]

@dude99

Said:

It come with my PC back in 2015 & never bother to update it much...

You never finish getting to know the people.

Said:

I can code a bit of CSS for fun.

A bit?

Please don't be so modest. We appreciate you.

[supra107]

@dude99 Xbox > Xbox 360 > Xbox One > Xbox Series.

The original Xbox was just called Xbox, that was the very beginning of the brand and Microsoft was yet to unify it, and it was very short lived.

Xbox 360 had no real special versions, only the usual miniaturization like in case of the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3.

With Xbox One there was the base model Xbox One, then they made a cheaper GaaS Xbox One S, and a more powerful and expensive Xbox One X.

With the Series they only have the Series X and the Series S, where the designations are about the same as with the One models. The "baseline" model is now the Series X, with Series S being the GaaS model.

I never even owned an Xbox and I somehow know this.

[dude99]

@supra107 wow, u do sounds like a xbox diehard fanboy to me... LOL

Anyway, the joke is many xbox fanboi end up buying the wrong/older version/generation of xbox because they all sounds so similar & named with meaningless number & single character - and then end up getting confused when they can't play the latest title with the "new" console!

[supra107]

@dude99 Guess an average Xbox fanboy is less informed about the consoles than me. I never had an issue like that though, if it was a PC game and it had an .exe file I knew I can play it. Full backwards compatibility too.

[Johnex]

@dude99 Could you spool up a Tiny11 VM ontop of your ancient Win8.1, install latest Vivaldi and see what is wrong with the css/js?

[dude99]

@Johnex Sorry, not anytime soon. I'm busy freeing harddisk space right now. It will take awhile for me to try out tiny11.

Anyway, there are probably other CSS/JS wizards who can write a similar mod for v5.7. Maybe you can open a new request topic in the modification forum & see if anyone willing to make a new one?

[Johnex]

[Zalex108]

Just missing Vivaldi keyboard shortcut customization for W11 since many things aren't on its place vs W7

Volume mixer
Mobility center

...

[oudstand]

@dude99 I'm not sure about Linux, but I think this depends on who provides the distribution. I also didn't want to say the dude behind Tiny11 has any bad plans. But you'll just receive (security-) updates when the developer releases them and not when Microsoft does so.

[dude99]

@oudstand Yeah, but at least you won't suddenly end up with a piece of very expensive " plastic brick" when MS force their bork update on everyone once every few months! LOL

[supra107]

I've decided to play around with CSS myself, editing the old CSS mod to see what needs to be changed and what can be removed to make it work on 6.0, and this is what I ended up with:

/* Autohide panel switch for Vivaldi 6.0 */

/* Remove panel padding and background */
#panels-container.overlay.minimized {
    position: absolute;
    background-color: unset;
}
/* Set the width of the panels-container element when not hovering over it to adjust the activation zone and not cause it to completely disappear when closing, different widths for different window modes, and keep it fully extended while editing toolbars */
#browser:not(.toolbar-edit-mode).maximized #panels-container.overlay:not(:hover) {
    width: 3px !important;
	transition: .1s .9s, background-color 0s 0s, opacity 0s 1s !important;
}

#browser:not(.toolbar-edit-mode).fullscreen #panels-container.overlay:not(:hover) {
    width: 3px !important;
	transition: .1s .9s, background-color 0s 0s, opacity 0s 1s !important;
}

#browser:not(.toolbar-edit-mode).normal #panels-container.overlay:not(:hover) {
    width: 6px !important;
	transition: .1s .9s, background-color 0s 0s, opacity 0s 1s !important;
}

/* Expand the switch element by one pixel to remove gap */

#switch {
    flex: 0 0 35px;
    max-width: 35px;
}

/* Set background color for panel switch */

#panels-container.overlay #switch, #panels-container:not(.overlay).icons #switch {
    background-color: var(--colorBgAlphaBlur);
}

Note that this code is meant to make the entire edge of the browser window where the panel switch pops up the activation area, and I have no idea how good this code is. It seems good enough for me and my use case.

[rrsch]

@supra107 holy hell. I've spent hours searching for this simple feature, which not having it drives me nuts.

Working on 6.2, thank you!

For anyone searching in the future after this version breaks, I was also trying out a workaround using Better Touch Tool, which has hot corners/edges, to apply a key command to show/hide. It was a little clunky, but still better than hotkeys or mouse gestures.