setting vertical layout by default

[brian]

How do set vertical layout by default?  

I'm trying to get the default behavior to be the state when I click: window -> Vertical-Window_Layout.  

It seems the layout changed when upgraded to version 6.8.6.1.   

In myleosettings.leo, I tried in tried @string qt-layout-name but there is not a solely vertical option.  I tried a bunch of other options like adding @script in a Startup node that runs the command c.executeMinibufferCommand('vertical-window-layout').  I also played with plugins but I could get to work.  

 

[Thomas Passin]

That is "vertical-thirds". Put a node into your myLeoSettings.leo outline with this headline:

@string qt-layout-name = vertical-thirds

This will become the default layout. The actual name of this layout as it would be used in a script is " layout-vertical-thirds". That's a layout name, not the name of a script that arranges the panes.

[brian]

That was it.  Thank you.  When I ran "help-for-layouts," I saw vertical-thirds with VR and VR3 panels on right and didn't think this is what wanted.  The name "thirds" threw me off.   

[Thomas Passin]

I see. At startup, the VR/VR3 panes aren't populated so you only see the three. If you open VR/VR3, they will open in those pane positions.

The layout names were created when this layout system was being finalized a year or two ago. Naming the layouts turned out to be hard.

[Robert-Felix]

Thanks Thomas, I also prefer the vertical layout 😁 I didn't know how to set it up

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[Thomas Passin]

All the layout commands can be listed by getting into the minibuffer, typing "layout-", and hitting <TAB>.  They all start with "layout-".  In your settings, the default is specified by @string qt-layout-name and you can use any of those listed names with or without the "layout-" prefix. If the prefix is missing, the code adds it before using the value (well, "layout-restore-to-setting" and "layout-swap-log-pane" wouldn't make any sense, don't use them).