The Window submenu on the main menu provides the following
options (middle and professional level):
- Dock - show or hide the toolbars docking window (this window is
also used to dock the main menu)
- Toolbars - decide which toolbars are
visible
- Read - show or hide the
Read toolbar
- Compose - show or hide the Compose
toolbar
- Format - show or hide the
Format toolbar
- Time - show or hide the Time
toolbar
- Tools - show or hide the Tools
toolbar
- Actions - show or hide the Actions
toolbar
- Dock toolbars - place all toolbars in the
toolbars docking window
- Status bar - show or hide the status bar
(at the bottom of the screen)
- Background - show or hide the background
behind windows used by SuperMemo (to minimize distraction caused by underlying
application)
- Hints - turn on or turn off displaying hints
when the mouse pauses over buttons. In addition, this option affects whether
the status bar shows the hints when the mouse
pauses over a menu option
- Select
- Category - select the category combo-box on
the Tools toolbar
- Tasklist - select the tasklist combo-box on
the Tools toolbar
- Next window - activate the next window on
the SuperMemo desktop (Ctrl+F6)
- Layout - windows layout management
- Layout manager - open a layout manager that makes it possible
to select, apply, save or delete layouts
- Apply default layout - restore windows
layout last saved with Layout : Save as default (below)
- Classic - arrange
windows in the manner known from early versions of SuperMemo,
i.e. with statistics windows conveniently aligned
to the left of the element window. This arrangement is useful when you make
repetitions and like to constantly follow the progress of learning. You can make this
layout permanent with Layout : Save as default (below).
You can quickly apply the classic layout with F5
- Save custom layout - save the current
windows layout under a selected name
- Save as default - save the current layout
of windows as your default layout. Each time you enter the currently
used collection, this layout will be applied
- Background color - set the color of the
background window displayed with Window : Background (above).
Setting the background color is the fastest way of differentiating
between collections (e.g. main collection, working copy, backup, test
collection, family member's copy, etc.)
- 1-9 - choose one of up to nine custom
layouts defined earlier and saved with Save layout. The selected
layout automatically becomes the default layout