@Arí-Ricardo-Ody ,

v8.8.2, like every other version of Notepad++, shows the license when you use ?-menu’s About Notepad++ entry, or click the F1 key on your keyboard (default shortcut).

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But it’s super-simple to get rid of. You can click OK or hit the ESC key on your keyboard, and it goes away. (The ESC key won’t work if you’ve clicked in the main Notepad++ window after the About dialog appears, because the ESC key needs the dialog to have focus to work. You can give the dialog focus by clicking anywhere in that dialog.)

The problems that I can only guess you might be having:

You clicked somewhere else, so ESC doesn’t work for you. Possible fixes: clicking the OK button clicking anywhere in the dialog’s window then typing ESC The OK button isn’t visible. Possible fixes: clicking on the About window somewhere, then typing ESC clicking on the About window somewhere, then use Alt+SPACEBAR to bring up the System Menu for the dialog. From there, you can select Move (or your language’s equivalent); if you cannot see the System Menu, it might be hidden somewhere, so you can type M (or whatever your language’s normal letter is for the “move this window” action from any application’s Alt+Spacebar System Menu). Either way, once it’s in move mode, you should be able to move the window around until you can see the OK button
9a5c9577-11dd-42ab-81c1-6efb2986a824-image.png You see and click the OK button, but the window doesn’t go away, or comes back Not sure what could be causing this. My best guess would be that the F1 key on your keyboard is stuck (or some other application or malware is constantly sending the F1 keystroke command), so it is repeatedly opening the About dialog, even after you close it. There’s nothing Notepad++ can do about this, but a reboot might help, or trying a different keyboard on that computer. If F1 is really a problem that you cannot solve through keyboard or reboot, go to Settings > Shortcut Mapper (you can do that even when the About menu is showing), type F1 into the Filter, click on About Notepad++ in the grid, click the Clear button – this will remove the F1 shortcut from About Notepad++, so F1 will no longer launch that dialog. So then if you close it, even pressing F1 shouldn’t launch the dialog anymore.
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But, in General, Notepad++ (v8.8.2 or any other version) only shows that dialog when you access it through the menu or through using F1, and can easily be closed using the OK button or typing the ESC key while the dialog is in focus.

If nothing in this works, you will have to give us more information (maybe a screenshot of the dialog, in case I’ve misinterpreted what you meant by the “page with the license”)

@PeterJones
As a user of Notepad++ in a highly-controlled corporate environment, Peter’s explanation is lucid, thorough and relevant.

@xomx said in Help needed - Forensic extractor result analyzing:

@donho

What is that for (is it for specific HW, OS or network analysis)?

Ubuntu on a VPS

Fullname of the forensic SW

“Forensic Extractor”

ballpoint.fr

It’s rather to analyze the results to make sure if anything is OK. Note the VPS is only for the wingup.org, whereas notepad-plus-plus.org is on a sharing hosting service.

Thank you for the ref
I will check this company.

Chill, Peter :-) Breath in, breath out. Everything is fine. (This is meant in a very positive way. I feel that you are very busy right now.)

Of course, yes, this is definitly no big deal. But it is nothing wrong in talking about it. Or just bringing up a question about it. Or an idea.

IMO, Thomas is not wrong with his observation/question/request. The red x icon is the only colorized icon while using light mode and fluent UI. So a more consistant behaviour would be, to have the x icon appearance coupled on the icon choice rather than the light/dark mode choice. (Means red x icon coupled to standard icons, a fluent x icon to the fluent UI.)

Yes sure, this issue is nothing important compared to the more urgent topics in the issue tracker.

@ErickNet
Short answer is no.

There are some posts on this forum over the years on the same subject, just do a search with the word android to see them. One of the later (relevant) ones is here.

Terry

@Glenn-M said in Add current file to Workspace?:

Hi, first time posting here…
I have a Workspace setup with a folder called Favorites that contains files I use frequently.
Is there an easy way to add a currently open file/tab to the Favorites folder?

Not via a single click.

The only way I have found to add a new file to the folder is to use “Add Files…” which opens a file browser, so I have to browse to select the file that is already open in the editor. Unnecessary extra effort.

You could right click on the tab of the file, then Copy to Clipboard > Copy Full File Path, then paste that into the Add Files… dialog, which would avoid having to browse.

But you are right, it would be nice to be able to choose “Add active tab to project” in the same Project Panel menu as “Add Files…”

If there is not currently a way to add an open file/tab to a Workspace,
can that be added as a Suggested Feature?

Look through the existing official issues, searching for either project panel or workspace (people sometimes use one term or the other for this same feature) and make sure the request doesn’t exist already. If not, click on the New Issue button and create the request.

However, Project Panel features haven’t been updated much in the last few years, so I don’t know how likely it is. You might want to try the Explorer plugin (you can install it through Plugins > Plugins Admin, checkmark Explorer, then Install), which has a Favorites feature, and that might work better for you than a Project Panel anyway. I recommend trying that plugin out to see if it meets your needs – either instead of putting in the feature request, or to give you something similar to tide you over while you are waiting to see if the feature request is implemented.

@PeterJones said in Config Files Need Updating, Too:

But, unfortunately, there were a few growing pains in transferring from the plugin to the builtin that I was really hoping wouldn’t happen, because I had ironed out so many problems in the plugin version already.

That IS why it’s called ‘developing’. and maintainers are ‘developers’. :-)

If I ever saw a first version of anything that worked unscathed on the first try, I’d be digging through the code looking for the bomb that went undetected. :-)

@th3me

See https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27306/faq-themes-in-v8-8-9

@xMRi

As far as I know, no. Npp explicitly checks this and throws an exception if no function is defined. So I would say, use an “About” menu item.

FYI
For the security reason, the https://download.notepad-plus-plus.org/ will be shutdown for some days.
It might be back online next year.

@Andrea-Gaviraghi More results from allowing updates on MSI package. The 8.8.8 MSI pulls the update from Notepad++ and it then installs the 8.8.9 executable. So again, the computer shows 2 installs, when only the newest is really installed. This process should be a lot cleaner…

@xomx said in Notepad++ 8.8.8: 2 issues detected:

or the 3rd option - as I said, create new MenuIcons plugin GitHub issue and its author most likely fixes it and publishes a new compatible version

Oh yes, of course, sorry. The third option is to create a GitHub issue which I’ve done. Here’s the link if anyone else should mention experiencing similar behaviour:

https://github.com/francostellari/NppPlugins/issues/73

@PeterJones

Thank you.

Thank you for your explanation! I’m glad I wasn’t alone with this problem. It’s very well written and easy for me to understand. Thank you!

@networkproblemsolver said in Style Configurations Reset After Update:

@PeterJones

But what if I want (need) to run in “Admin Mode” ??? Is Notepad++ unable to run in “Admin Mode” and still save Style Configurations? That seems silly.

Security experts would tell you that constantly running any app in admin/root mode is a lot worse than silly.

And since Notepad++ v8.6.6, there is no reason to run Notepad++ in Admin mode to edit/save UAC-protected files, because Notepad++ can ask for UAC Elevation for the individual save actions . So the only activity that you might still need to run Notepad++ in Admin mode for is when installing a new plugin, and you don’t need to be constantly running in Admin mode for that. That is: you most likely don’t “need” to run in Admin mode anymore.

That said, the reason why Notepad++ often has problem with Admin mode and settings is because of cross-contamination of permissions: running an app in Elevated privileges makes WINDOWS treat that app differently. It may be that with your current setup, the Elevated/Admin-mode won’t allow writing to AppData (since that’s a per-user, and for some system configurations, WINDOWS won’t allow admin to write to %AppData%). Or it might be that because you often ran N++ as Admin that the AppData-based settings might have been created/saved with Admin-privileges, so when you run N++ as normal user it cannot read or save the settings. Without being able to look at your file permissions for you, I cannot say exactly what caused it – you would need to verify where Notepad++ is trying to do the settings, and look at the directory and the stylers.xml in that directory, looking at Windows’ SECURITY settings for both; and then maybe try running experiments to see whether changing a setting/style-configurator in Notepad++ is saved when you exit Notepad++ when running normally and/or when running as Admin.

@networkproblemsolver
Your images show you seem to be running NPP as administrator. That could be the source of your problem.

Read this thread, there might be the solution.

Terry

Updated linter++ to v1.0.2

This has mostly been concerned with changes to the dockable window with the results:

You can click on a column header to sort by that column You can drag the column headers to reorder the columns You can configure the font used for display

There’ve also been a few other minor improvements/fixes - see the Changes.md file

Downloadable from https://github.com/ThosRTanner/notepad-pp-linter/releases if you can’t wait for the plugin list to be updated.

@xomx After restarting our Samba instance, the issues appear to be resolved. Apologies for the false alarm, but thank you for the responses!