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You need to start Metview up with the -desktop flag. At ECMWF the command to use is as follows: metview4_new -desktop Outside ECMWF you need to use your local metview command. |
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Each Metview session defines a home folder (by default it is ~/metview). This folder is set as both the home and root folder for Desktop! This has two implications. First, the home folder icon
in Desktop always refers to the Metview home folder (and not the UNIX home folder)! Second, we cannot directly access files outside this file system from within Desktop (but we need to use symbolic links for these files/folders).
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New tabs can be added by the blue button at the right edge of the tab bar or by using the Ctrl+T keyboard shourtcut.
As you it can see be seen in the picture above there is a dropdown menu at the right edge of the tab bar showing the actual list of open tabs. This menu can significantly ease the tab navigation if there is a large number of tabs open in a given Desktop window.
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Desktop offers a small set of actions to customise the folder settings.These actions are available from the Folder settings tool button (with the "spanner" icon) at the right edge of the statusbar (they can also be accessed in the View menu).
You can use these actions to perform the tasks as followsThe tasks performed by these actions are explained in detail:
- Apply icon size to all open folders:it is a one-off action broadcasting the icon size from the current folder to all the open folders is one go
- Save view settings as default: it saves the view mode and icon size of the current folder as a default
- Revert view settings to default: it changes the view mode and icon size for the current folder back to the default settings
Bookmarks
Both folders and a tab-sets can be bookmarked. Bookmarks can be accessed either via the Bookmarks menu or the Bookmarks sidebar.
You can open the the Bookmarks sidebar
- with the Bookmarks button in the toolbar
- from the View menu
- by pressing Ctrl+B.
Bookmarking a folder
There are various ways to bookmark a folder. You can use
- the Bookmarks menu
- the context menu of a Folder icon, Folder tab or Breadcrumbs item.
- the context menu of the Bookmarks sidebar
- the bookmarks icon at the right hand edge of the Breadcrumbs.
Bookmarking tabs
To bookmark a set of folder tabs you can use:
- the Bookmarks menu
- the context menu in the Bookmarks sidebar
Tab-sets are indicated with a distinct grey icon in the bookmarks list like this (in this case "Demo" is being a tab-set bookmark):
Using bookmarks
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Icon drawers
Icon drawers are a set of tabs containing icon-strips appearing at the bottom of each Desktop window. Their contents is shared between the Desktop windows, so each window shows the same set of drawers.
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Please note that Icon drawers can be hidden/shown via the View menu.
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The Folder view context menu (right-click anywhere in the view when no icons are selected to see this menu) offer various ways to create new icons in Desktop:
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- Recent: it contains the list of recently created icons
- Types: icons are grouped by categories (e.g. Views)
- Filter: it contains all the icons in a list with an optional filter working according to the combination of icon name, type and category. For example by typing the filter term "geo" results in the following list:
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Icon drawers contain only user defined icons. So there can be several copies of the same type of icon with a different content. Also it was mentioned that Besides, Icon drawers are never updated by Desktop, so they by no means can contain a are not supposed to contain the complete set of Metview icons. On the contrary, the Create new icon dialog features the complete list of the Metview icons that users can create, and there is only one instance of an icon (the system version) available here. |
Bookmarks
Both folders and a tab-sets can be bookmarked. Bookmarks can be accessed either via the Bookmarks menu or the Bookmarks sidebar.
Users can open the the Bookmarks sidebar
- with the Bookmarks button in the toolbar
- from the View menu
- by pressing Ctrl+B.
Bookmarking a folder
There are various ways to bookmark a folder. It can be done with:
- the Bookmarks menu
- the context menu of a Folder icon, Folder tab or Breadcrumbs item.
- the context menu of the Bookmarks sidebar
- the bookmarks icon at the right hand edge of the Breadcrumbs.
Bookmarking tabs
To bookmark a set of folder tabs use:
- the Bookmarks menu
- the context menu in the Bookmarks sidebar
Tab-sets are indicated with a distinct grey icon in the bookmarks list like this (in this case "Demo" is being a tab-set bookmark):
Using bookmarks
Bookmark items can be opened in various ways (e.g. in a new tab or in a new window) via their context menu.
Icon filtering
Desktop features a filtering facility for finding icons in cluttered desktops. Just press Crtl+F in any of the folder views to bring up the icon filter bar at the bottom of the folder view. By typing in a filter term for name or/and type the icons not matching the filter are greyed out in the Folder view.
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Drag and
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drop
You can copy icons between Folder views by dragging them with the middle mouse button.
Dragging an icon with the left mouse button means move.
The drop target can also be a Folder icon, a Folder tab, a Breadcrumbs item, a Bookmarks item or an Icon drawer. The rules are the same except for the Icon drawers where both the left and middle mouse button drag actions mean copy!
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Icon actions
Icons can be copied or moved between folders by using the Copy, Cut and Paste from clipboard actions in the context.
Icon editors
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