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I use NPP for basic sanitization of text (copy/paste), and for a couple other things. Now after coming back after a while the default when opening is 50% usable text space, the rest... nothing?

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    Benjamin Kiefer
    last edited by Jul 19, 2021, 5:17 PM

    I’m not sure my description really does my confusion justice …

    I haven’t opened NPP up in a while (probably ~6 months). I use it primarily to sanitize invisible special characters from text. I also prefer to use it for quick file edits and the like. My issue is that there seems to have been some kind of “opt-out feature” introduced recently. Now upon opening NPP there is a section “new 1” for editing text, but it’s only 50% of the window size, and centered. Around it appears to be space reserved for other things, which are just mostly blank.

    After dabbling in the UI a bit I found they appear to be related to Project Panels? However I have yet to be able to fully close all of them. The end result is I still do not have 100% of the window area for text manipulation. And to make matters worse, I then closed it and re-opened and found that the time I’d spent closing those panels was wasted, as it simply reverted to having them all open again.

    The process I had to go through to close them was absurd too; while the image shows an ‘x’ in some locations, there is nothing in others, and i had to actually go to view -> project panels -> 1,2,3 first, and THEN i was able to close them. (Note, as stated above, I wasn’t able to close all of these)

    Image of NPP showing 50% usable work space

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      Ekopalypse @Benjamin Kiefer
      last edited by Jul 19, 2021, 5:30 PM

      @Benjamin-Kiefer

      there is already an issue open here .
      It has been reported that this can happen after using a screen sharing application. Could this also be the case for you?

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        Benjamin Kiefer @Ekopalypse
        last edited by Jul 19, 2021, 9:00 PM

        @Ekopalypse Hmm, It’s true that I share my screen for work frequently enough, however I definitely didn’t have npp open at the time.

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          mere-human
          last edited by Jul 19, 2021, 9:09 PM

          Try rebooting your PC. It may help.
          You can also see additional info about the same problem here:
          https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9760

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