Tiddler width and sidebar position

[Sjaak Adriaanse]

Hi all,

I updated from 5.0.12-beta to 5.1.15, but now the tiddlers take up the whole width of the screen, so the sidebar disappears behind them. Also the sidebar is positioned too far to the bottom of the screen. How can I change the standard tiddler width and sidebar position?

At the moment my experience with TW is content-only (tiddlers, links, tags) but I want to dig deeper in the possibilities.

Thanks in advance!

Greetings,
Sjaak

[Ed]

Hi Sjaak,

Did you click on the double chevron in upper right corner,
that will change the size of the story river and reveal the sidebar.

Other standard choices, two actually.
Click "Open Control Panel" icon.
Click "Appearances"
Click "Team Tweaks"
Find "Sidebar lay-out"
There are two options: "Fixed Story, fluid sidebar" & "Fluid story, fixed sidebar"

Vriendelijke Groeten! Ed.

Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 13:46:22 UTC+2 schreef Sjaak Adriaanse:

[Sjaak Adriaanse]

Hi Ed,

Changing the sidebar layout to 'Fluid story, fixed sidebar' fixed the first problem, thanks!

But the sidebar still behaves strangely. It tries to be as low on the screen as possible, depending on what it displays. But when I click f.i. the 'recent' tab the head of the sidebar moves upward out of view (because the column with recent tiddlers is so long). I can not reach other tabs and I also can not scroll (moving the scrollbar only scrolls the story river). Is this also caused by the 'fixed sidebar' option? These problems did not occur in 5.0.12-beta, where I could not tweak the sidebar layout.

Greetings,
Sjaak

[PMario]

Hi Sjaak,

On Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 1:46:22 PM UTC+2, Sjaak Adriaanse wrote:

I updated from 5.0.12-beta to 5.1.15,

BACKUP FIRST!!!!

That's a big jump. ... I think your problem is, that you may have imported some theme-tweaks to your new TW, that are not compatible with the existing stable version.

• So you could download a new empty.html from tiddlywiki.com
• Then drag and drop your work.html from the OS file-browser to the open empty.html
• It will show you the import list
• Check this list and __only__ import your content to the new TW.

Especially have a look for tiddlers that start with $:/ ..... SystemTiddlers ... They may contain stuff that is not compatible anymore.

Also have a look at your plugins. .... Some of them may be outdated and may behave strange with the current version

TW stable implemented a lot of functions into the core, that had been plugins in beta. ...

Just some thoughts.

mario

[Sjaak Adriaanse]

Hi Mario,

Thanks a bunch! This solved my problem (and probably some I had not noticed yet). I imported my own content and some innocent-looking system tiddlers. I have to repair some appearance settings but hey, that's computer life.

Greetings,
Sjaak