Move Mail/Feeds to specific window

PatchesOnHand

I have a multi-window setup, with multiple desktop monitors. I'd like a way to force the Mail and Feeds panels to my primary monitor. I find too often that, after restarting Vivaldi (e.g. after a system reboot), the panels are locked to the window on my second monitor, and I need to fiddle with closing windows in reverse order, restart Vivaldi, then reopen closed windows to get my preferred setup.

So I'd either like an option to move the panels between windows, or to see support for Mail/Feeds on multiple windows at a time (perhaps per-window show/hide the panel button?)

RichardWepnerPD

I'm surprised that this didn't receive any responses yet, yet the mail view is still bound to one window which can't be configured by the user.
I, too, have a multi-window setup, where each window serves a certain purpose (i. e. each window will contain specific tabs). And not being able to move the mail to another window would require me to move all other tabs of that window into another or a separate window.

I hope this gets addressed at some point in the future.

finway

On Windows 10,
Mail is limited to use in main window only.
Would be good to be able to use it in every window, or at least move it to another window.

I use Pesala hack as workaround for now
Selecting all tabs in mail window + right-click to move into new window.

From msg
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/80850/move-mail-into-an-other-window/3?lang=en-US

elenapoot

@finway I had not seen or thought of that hack, but at least as of version 6.2.3077.3 it doesn't work. I try to move the mail window to another tab, and it does move the tab, closing the original and opening it in the window I selected, but the newly opened one gives the usual "mail is running in another window" and if you click the button it just goes back to the same window you moved it from, and opens a new mail tab. Am I missing something on this? I did try closing the mail panel before moving the tab, but the panel stays in the window when you move the tab, so it hasn't really changed anything.

If I close that browser window, mail moves "silently" to another browser window. (I'm terrible, I use workspaces and tab stacks and still have multiple browser windows lying around.) In trying it just now, it moved to the "wrong" window, but it's also not obvious where it went, as the panel icon didn't show up. So I picked Tools > Mail from the menu, and then it added the panel icon and opened a mail tab on the other window. (Closing my 2nd to last browser window did indeed move it to my "main" browser window.)

That workaround is less uncomfortable now with workspaces since you can manage not to lose your place or anything, but being able to just move the tab would be a lot better. And of course, even better would be if instead of going to the the window with mail, you had a button that said to bring the mail to that tab.

Clearly the program is capable of moving it, as it does so every time you close a browser window where it's running. We only want a bit of control over that. The current behavior is confusing. For the longest time, I thought mail didn't work on my machine for some reason, because when I looked for the panel, I was never looking in the correct browser window.

Pesala

@elenapoot The Mail Tab cannot be moved to another window — it is always in the first window. The hack is the to move the other tabs in the mail window to another window.

elenapoot

@Pesala Ah, clever, thanks.

altux

I have another solution to this, actually, which worked for me pretty nicely.

I'm using workspaces pretty extensively and wanted the mails on a specific window with my personal stuff. I've opened this workspace on the first window where mail resides and all other workspaces in other windows.

Martyn

@finway

Just a big warning to everyone on this method...

This does not move tab stacks - only the "top" tab in each stack, as I just found to my detriment! I had to spend 10 minutes moving them all back and into the correct stack

If anyone has any better ways to do this let me know!

Martyn