Am I doing something wrong with the Sigil Toolbars?

fdwojo · 06-26-2021, 12:51 PM

I'm sorry to be dumb enough to ask this question but...

When I use Sigil (and I'm currently updated to 1.60), I don't like the toolbars all scrunched up with only 1 or 2 icons of a group shown. So... I go through and move them around the way I want so I can see all the icons and then I hide the unneeded parts. I then do my work and then close Sigil.

But when I reopen Sigil, the toolbars are back to the inefficient scrunched up way they were to start.

I've used other programs before that allow you to modify the toolbar, and they all remember my changes. Why doesn't Sigil? Or is there some special incantation or ritual I'm supposed to do when I've modified it the way I want so that it'll remember?

Has anyone else experienced this? And if so, is it fixable? It occurs to me (and I hate it if it's true) but do the programmers expect us to always use Sigil in a full screen format? I'm willing to bet a lot of people don't do that.

Thanks for reading (and hopefully helping!)

FDWojo

P.S. I use Windows 10 Pro w/64GB RAM

KevinH · 06-26-2021, 01:06 PM

As long as you exit out of Sigil completely, your settings should be saved for the next launch. Perhaps Sigil has no write access or permissions to your sigil.ini file?

You could try renaming your sigil.ini file and trying again, just in case it got corrupted. You also might try editing epub and saving the file but that should not be needed. Just really exiting Sigil should be enough unless you somehow have multiple instances of Sigil running.

KevinH · 06-26-2021, 01:10 PM

It could also be that Sigil is actually silently crashing on exit on your machine for some reason as that would prevent the updating of the sigil.ini file.

Either way, the behaviour you are seeing is not normal.

theducks · 06-26-2021, 06:06 PM

OR
you had 2 instances of Sigil running at the time you made the change to ONE.
The last one written was not the one you changed

fdwojo · 06-26-2021, 08:33 PM

Thank you, folks for the ideas. In reverse order:
3) I only had a single instance of Sigil running
2+1) With regards to exiting, I normally just use the Close Windows "X" in the upper right corner to quit Sigil. But I will examine the INI file to see if that handles it.

Very much appreciated!

FDWojo

06-26-2021, 12:51 PM	#1
fdwojo Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: Samsung Note20 Ultra, Kindle Fire HD10	Am I doing something wrong with the Sigil Toolbars? I'm sorry to be dumb enough to ask this question but... When I use Sigil (and I'm currently updated to 1.60), I don't like the toolbars all scrunched up with only 1 or 2 icons of a group shown. So... I go through and move them around the way I want so I can see all the icons and then I hide the unneeded parts. I then do my work and then close Sigil. But when I reopen Sigil, the toolbars are back to the inefficient scrunched up way they were to start. I've used other programs before that allow you to modify the toolbar, and they all remember my changes. Why doesn't Sigil? Or is there some special incantation or ritual I'm supposed to do when I've modified it the way I want so that it'll remember? Has anyone else experienced this? And if so, is it fixable? It occurs to me (and I hate it if it's true) but do the programmers expect us to always use Sigil in a full screen format? I'm willing to bet a lot of people don't do that. Thanks for reading (and hopefully helping!) FDWojo P.S. I use Windows 10 Pro w/64GB RAM Last edited by fdwojo; 06-26-2021 at 12:58 PM.

06-26-2021, 01:10 PM	#3
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,654 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	It could also be that Sigil is actually silently crashing on exit on your machine for some reason as that would prevent the updating of the sigil.ini file. Either way, the behaviour you are seeing is not normal. Last edited by KevinH; 06-26-2021 at 01:52 PM.

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06-26-2021, 01:06 PM	#2
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,654 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	As long as you exit out of Sigil completely, your settings should be saved for the next launch. Perhaps Sigil has no write access or permissions to your sigil.ini file? You could try renaming your sigil.ini file and trying again, just in case it got corrupted. You also might try editing epub and saving the file but that should not be needed. Just really exiting Sigil should be enough unless you somehow have multiple instances of Sigil running.

06-26-2021, 06:06 PM	#4
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,817 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	OR you had 2 instances of Sigil running at the time you made the change to ONE. The last one written was not the one you changed

06-26-2021, 08:33 PM	#5
fdwojo Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: Samsung Note20 Ultra, Kindle Fire HD10	Thank you, folks for the ideas. In reverse order: 3) I only had a single instance of Sigil running 2+1) With regards to exiting, I normally just use the Close Windows "X" in the upper right corner to quit Sigil. But I will examine the INI file to see if that handles it. Very much appreciated! FDWojo

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