Toolbar doesn't remain 'fluent'

traderttt9

This is really my only complaint with this excellent program.

When I click on a file with an association that opens it in Notepad++, the program opens with NO icons in the toolbar, large or small.

No question I’ve set this to ‘Toolbar’: Fluent UI: large

I’ve even changed it and changed it back, hoping somehow that a reset would result in a retained setting. No joy.

Anyone?

Thanks,

Yuki

PeterJones

@traderttt9 ,

Sounds to me like either your association has a command-line option that hides the toolbar, or you don’t have write permissions on your own config files, so Notepad++ isn’t able to save the settings, because the toolbar is 100% reliable for me, whether opened with file association or through launching the program manually.

Please share your ?-menu’s Debug Info, as that will give us info as to how your Notepad++ is being run, and what options are passed to it. After we see that, we may be able to give a next step for debugging your problem.

Terry R

@traderttt9 said in Toolbar doesn’t remain ‘fluent’:

Anyone?

It almost sounds like you have 2 problems.

When opening a file that has the association, instead of opening Notepad++ first and then the file, you get 2 different results with the toolbar. This sounds like the association is opening a different (installed) version of Notepad++ on the PC. The way to identify that is to run Notepad++ each way, then check the “Debug Info” under the ? menu. It will tell you where the program is located. Alternatively one of the methods may be running Notepad++ with some commandline parameters which may be wrong. Again, see the “command line arguments” under the ? menu.
You refer to making a change, then checking during a later session and the changes have reverted, or at least don’t appear to have changed and stuck. This could be because you are running Notepad++ in “multi instance” mode (see settings, preferences, multi instance & date). If so, then the last instance which closes will set the settings for the next time you run Notepad++. So make the changes in that instance before closing. It may also occur if you do NOT have the ability to alter the XML file holding this configuration change. So you would need to check on the XML files, stored either in the %appdata%\Notepad++ folder, or where the Notepad++ executable file is located, depending on how you run Notepad++. Check the file permissions, that you can write to the files.

Terry

PS, just noted @PeterJones thinks exactly the same!