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Arrange the panels and use a second monitor

Dock the side panels left, right or at the bottom, float them over the drawing, or move them to their own window on another screen.

The panels beside the drawing can move. Put them where they suit you, or give them a window of their own on a second monitor so the drawing gets the whole of the first one.

Move a panel in the window

  1. Drag the panel by its name at the top.
  2. While you drag, outlined areas appear on the left, the right and the bottom of the drawing. Drop the panel on one to dock it there. The area you are over darkens.
  3. Drop it anywhere else over the drawing to make it float.

Both panels can share one side: they stack, and the line between them drags to share the space. Drag the inner edge of a docked side to make it wider or narrower; double-click the edge to put it back.

A floating panel stays over the drawing. Move it by its name, and resize it by dragging its lower-right corner (or tab to the corner and use the arrow keys). Double-click its name to dock it again where it was.

Touch

Drag with one finger on the panel's name. Drag the lower-right corner of a floating panel with one finger to resize it, and the edges between docked panels the same way. To float or dock with no dragging, use the ⋯ menu.

Use the keyboard

Every panel's ⋯ button opens a menu: Dock on the left, Dock on the right, Dock at the bottom, Float over the drawing, Move to a new window and Put it back. Tab to the button, press ReturnEnter, move with the arrow keys and press ReturnEnter again. EscEsc closes the menu.

Put the panels on a second monitor

  1. Choose ⋯ on a panel, then Move all panels to a new window. You can also choose Move panels to a new window in Settings.
  2. A small window opens with the panels in it. Drag it to your other monitor and make it as big as you like.
  3. Keep working: the panels act on the drawing as before, and the drawing fills the main window.

Shortcuts keep working while the panels window is in front: keys you press there, other than typing in a box, go to the drawing. Questions and dialogs the app asks still open in the main window, so look there when one appears. The theme and the panel text size follow the main window.

Chrome or Edge

Chrome and Edge can place the window on the other screen for you. With a second screen connected, choose Put it on my other screen in the panels window (or Put the panels on my other screen in a panel's ⋯ menu). The browser asks once whether this site may see your screens; after you allow it, the panels window opens on that screen every time.

Firefox or Safari

Drag the panels window to the other monitor yourself. It opens in the same place and at the same size next time.

More than one panels window

Each panel can have a window of its own: up to four panels windows, for example one per monitor.

  • In a panel's ⋯ menu, Move to a new window opens another window for that panel, and Move to panels window 2 (and so on) moves it into one that is open. The second window is called "panels 2".
  • Drag a panel by its name from one window to another: let go over the main window to dock it there (the outlined areas show while you are over it) or to float it, and over another panels window to move it in. Let go anywhere else and it stays where it was.
  • A panels window that has no panels left closes by itself.

After a reload the app offers your panels windows again. Browsers open one window per click, so choose Open the next one once for each window.

Put the panels back

  • Choose Put the panels back in the panels window, or simply close it. The panels go back where they were.
  • Closing or reloading the main window closes the panels window too. When the app opens again it says your panels were in their own window; choose Open it to bring the window back, or Keep them here.
  • Settings › General › Reset layout puts every panel back where it started.

The layout is kept for each app in this browser, along with your other settings.