showing and hiding the toolbar...

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showing and hiding the toolbar...

Postby Johan Söderberg » Fri Mar 06, 2026 2:51 pm

I usually run LXConsole with the toolbar open and I guess this is its default mode.

But sometimes I make Lightshows for touring groups and others that are intended to be used by actors, dancers and others which I don't trust enough to leave the toolbar open. Some of these LXConsole files can even be saved and left in "scenes mode" at a stationary computer in the house.
In that case I thought maybe it would be good to save a setting for whether the toolbar is visible or not - in the specific LXConsole file.
So that even if the saved mode for the LXC program on any occasion is an open toolbar, the specific LXFile file would have a saved setting inhibiting that.

I guess this might be a rather obscure and unusual use of the software maybe, but In our venue where we have lots of returning guests and special saved light settings for many of them, it would be nice to know that they can't fiddle with things they don't quite understand the purpose of.

It certainly would have saved me a few confused late night calls ;-)

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Re: showing and hiding the toolbar...

Postby admin » Sun Mar 08, 2026 5:13 pm

The toolbar status is usually handled by MacOS. It requires overriding that standard behavior to individually save the toolbar hidden/showing state for each file.

The latest build, 2.7.4 (21308.1), does just that .