Side panel is opened by default and system does not remember not to show it

[ptoche]

The side panel is opened upon restart even after it has been de-selected via the View->Show menu. This did not happen with versions earlier than 4.8.0. A very similar issue was observed with 4.8.1.

Environment

• TeXstudio:

TeXstudio 4.8.2 (git 4.8.2)
Using Qt Version 6.7.2, compiled with Qt 6.7.2 R

• OS:
  MacBook Pro
  Chip: Apple M1 Pro
  Memory: 16 GB
  MacOS: Sonoma 14.16.1

• TeX distribution:
  pdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.26 (TeX Live 2024)
  kpathsea version 6.4.0
  Copyright 2024 Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.

Expected behavior

The side bar is not opened.
The side bar elements such as TOC, Bookmarks, etc. should not show after they have been de-selected from the
View -> Show menu

Actual behavior

The side bar shows up every time upon restart

How to reproduce

Close the side bark. Restart Texstudio.

Related issues:

These were closed, but unfortunately the problem reported there had not been resolved.

#3696
#3667

[octaeder]

can't reproduce with Win10 and latest own build (TeXstudio 4.8.3 (git 4.8.2-44-gad95c07be)).

[muzimuzhi]

Does the menu view/show/reset sidepanel (mentioned in wiki - Known Issues - osx) helps?

[sunderme]

not reproducible in VM with OSX

[ptoche]

I see... thanks for the feedback!

Do you know if there is a setting in the texstudio.ini file that would control this behavior? I could try to fix it there.

Okay, so I deleted the texstudio.ini file and let the system recreate a new one. I then proceeded to remove the

View->Show sidebar

Closed and re-opened. And this is what I get:

The sidebar is opened upon restart. So is the log-file view.

Is there anything else I can look for that would control the default view settings other than the texstudio.ini file?

Thanks!

[ptoche]

I went the painful way of removing the texstudio app, deleting the .config directory, installing again, selecting

• Restore previous session at startup
• removing the sidebar and all its elements via the View -> show menu.

and it came back all the same. So it appears my .ini file doesn't get updated at all anymore. I'm on the same laptop. Could permissions have changed or something?

If I copy-paste a modified .ini file, texstudio reads it.

If I had a setting line to control the appearance of the sidebar, I could add that to my .ini file.

I'm looking for a line like maybe:
Editor\SidebarVisible=false

If it's relevant, I have the following settings in my .ini file:

GUI\ConfigShorcutColumnWidth=200 GUI\Icon%20Theme=1 GUI\PDFToobarIconSize=16 GUI\SecondaryToobarIconSize=16 GUI\Style=0 GUI\SymbolSize=32 GUI\Texmaker%20Palette=false GUI\ToobarIconSize=22 GUI\Use%20System%20Theme=true GUI\outputView\visible=false GUI\sidePanel\currentPage=0 GUI\sidePanel\visible=false GUI\sidePanelSplitter\state=@ByteArray(\0\0\0\xff\0\0\0\x1\0\0\0\x2\0\0\x1\x18\0\0\x1\\\0\0\0\0\x1\x1\0\0\0\x1\0)

[muzimuzhi]

What's the ownership of your ~/.config directory? Run ls -lah ~ | grep '\.config' and check whether the third column shows your username.

See also https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/320682/ownership-of-the-config-folder-in-home-directory.

Another guessing: is the ~/.config managed by some cloud storage softwares, like OneDrive?

[ptoche]

Thanks @muzimuzhi for getting back to me!

I don't use any cloud storage services. I don't use OneDrive.

The ownership shows me:

drwxr-xr-x 15 ptoche staff 480B Sep 14 09:38 .config

[octaeder]

the line is GUI\sidePanel\visible=true

[ptoche]

Thanks @octaeder !

So I tried with both true and false and it makes no difference.

The other related settings are:

GUI\ConfigShorcutColumnWidth=340
GUI\Icon%20Theme=0
GUI\PDFToobarIconSize=16
GUI\SecondaryToobarIconSize=16
GUI\Style=0
GUI\SymbolSize=32
GUI\Texmaker%20Palette=false
GUI\ToobarIconSize=22
GUI\Use%20System%20Theme=true
GUI\outputView\visible=false
GUI\sidePanel\currentPage=0
GUI\sidePanel\visible=false
GUI\sidePanelSplitter\state=@ByteArray(\0\0\0\xff\0\0\0\x1\0\0\0\x2\0\0\x1\x18\0\0\x1\\\0\0\0\0\x1\x1\0\0\0\x1\0)

[ptoche]

With release 4.8.3 the bottom log panel remains closed (texstudio remembers the last state), while the structure side panel remains open upon a restart, whether I set GUI\sidePanel\visible=true or GUI\sidePanel\visible=false in the texstudio.init file.

[mgerfin]

Fixed on my Mac now, with release 4.8.3, MacOS Sequioa and the M1 version. The process of opening TexStudio for the first time is another matter with the new OS (needed to give permission in system preferences).

[ptoche]

No such luck here.

In my `texstudio.ini' I deleted all the GUI related commands, which were:

GUI\ConfigShorcutColumnWidth=340
GUI\Icon%20Theme=0
GUI\PDFToobarIconSize=16
GUI\SecondaryToobarIconSize=16
GUI\Style=0
GUI\SymbolSize=32
GUI\Texmaker%20Palette=false
GUI\ToobarIconSize=22
GUI\Use%20System%20Theme=true
GUI\outputView\visible=false
GUI\sidePanel\currentPage=0
GUI\sidePanel\visible=false
GUI\sidePanelSplitter\state=@ByteArray(\0\0\0\xff\0\0\0\x1\0\0\0\x2\0\0\x1\x18\0\0\x1\\\0\0\0\0\x1\x1\0\0\0\x1\0)

I then restarted and proceeded to remove all the sidebar items via the menu View -> Show, closed the app and checked the texstudio.ini file: some of the GUI settings had reappeared, as follows:

GUI\ConfigShorcutColumnWidth=200
GUI\Icon%20Theme=0
GUI\PDFToobarIconSize=16
GUI\SecondaryToobarIconSize=16
GUI\Style=0
GUI\SymbolSize=32
GUI\Texmaker%20Palette=false
GUI\ToobarIconSize=24
GUI\Use%20System%20Theme=true

Upon re-opening the sidebar was back to the open state with all its elements selected: Even the log file was open.

I pasted the single line GUI\sidePanel\visible=false. Nothing doing.

Each time I edit the texstudio.ini file, I have the texstudio app closed.

Bottom line: the GUI\sidePanel\visible=false setting is ineffective.