There are five programmed window arrangements for the two Files windows. These are referred to as 'styles'. Tiled windows may be either vertically or horizontally tiled. Tiled Vertical is the initialization default; thereafter, the mode in use at shutdown is restored upon the next invocation of FS/2. The user may resize and rearrange any or all of the five styles. The size and position will be retained or proportionally resized during frame window size changes.
Window styles
may be toggled in a rotary fashion by pushing the
window Ring
pushbutton
in the lower left corner of either Files window. The window ring may be
toggled either forward or backward using the LMB/RMB or F11/F12. A
style
may also be easily selected using the Windows menu options or
Alt+1
through Alt+5 from the keyboard.
Any of the five window styles may be user adjusted by dragging a window border. This will affect the selected style only. A Lock Windows may be used to prevent accidentally resizing a window.
Note: The internal windows cannot be moved by a mouse drag action. To move a window, the left and/or bottom border must be dragged to the new position.
The Twin style should not be user adjusted as it is used for the Directory Compare function.
To reset the active window style back to the default arrangement, hit the Size button in the Data Panel (Ctrl+W). Use the Windows->Reset Ring function (Alt+Shift+W) to reset all window styles to default position.
If the right border of the Directories window is resized by a border drag, the new size is optionally set as the default size for the Directories window and its width is used thereafter when resetting one or all styles.
The Cascaded style is recommended if using the Details view of file objects. It allows the largest area for display of files while retaining a 'drag-to-other-window' area in the background window and it is easy to click the other window to activate. Some users prefer the tiled variations as a result of experience with other file managers. These styles are primarily useful when visually comparing the content of the two Files windows.