Got some questions on the new webtop. (I'm running the 6.7.232 leak.)
I know that the old linux layer is gone, but I am having a terrible time trying to figure out the new implementation. For example, attached is a copy of my main phone screen:
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When I switch to webtop, even though I am using the "shrink" mode, my desktop looks all funky:
It even selects its own wallpaper from another file on the device, adds extra folder icons (green rectangle), and deforms the widgets (yellow rectangle). I tried deleting the extra folders and resizing the widget, but then when I undock the Bionic, everything on my phone layout is borked.
(BTW, the webtop screen grab is clipped because I can't figure out how to do a capture natively, and the app I'm using appears not to like the dimensions of the webtop desktop.)
Initially, I was all excited about not having memory errors, etc., on the new webtop. Now, though, it seems both frustrating to use and nearly useless. About the only benefit I get out of it is a bigger screen for Firefox and Netflix.
Can anyone tell me (1) how to fix this fugly mess, and (2) how to take a screenshot in webtop mode?
Thanks.
Are you using anything other than the stock launcher on your phone.
I noticed that webtop with APEX and NOVA launcher isn't exactly pretty.
webtop mode is an all new layout for your device. In short. changing stuff on your phone's home screen doesn't affect your webtop's and vice-versa.
That is assuming that your using the stock launcher of course. Just re-select your phone background for the webtop mode and add/adjust the icons to suit your needs. It doesn't affect the icons in phone mode.
You get a 7x6 grid on your desktop with some space to the right and left for switching between screens. the space is equivalent to about 1 icon.
As far as screenshots go. I only know of one way. The print screen button on a keyboard that has it. Takes a screenshot perfectly.
dellenrules said:
Are you using anything other than the stock launcher on your phone.
I noticed that webtop with APEX and NOVA launcher isn't exactly pretty.
webtop mode is an all new layout for your device. In short. changing stuff on your phone's home screen doesn't affect your webtop's and vice-versa.
That is assuming that your using the stock launcher of course. Just re-select your phone background for the webtop mode and add/adjust the icons to suit your needs. It doesn't affect the icons in phone mode.
You get a 7x6 grid on your desktop with some space to the right and left for switching between screens. the space is equivalent to about 1 icon.
As far as screenshots go. I only know of one way. The print screen button on a keyboard that has it. Takes a screenshot perfectly.
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You can screencap in webtop the same as in phone. Just hit power and volume down on the phone and it will work no problem.
Incidentally, I went back to the stock launcher because I was also annoyed at the weird desktop stuff, and in so doing found the key difference between .2233 and .230: the stock weather widget has been fixed (for me it would spin but never display weather).
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Does your homescreen rotate? I thought they fixed that in 4.1??? The homescreen on my N7 rotates. Why doesn't it rotate on the X?
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Does your homescreen rotate? I thought they fixed that in 4.1??? The homescreen on my N7 rotates. Why doesn't it rotate on the X?
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Do you have "Auto-rotate screen" checked in the display options?
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Do you have "Auto-rotate screen" checked in the display options?
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yes. everything else rotates fine. just the homescreen/app drawer. this was a known miss for several versions, which I thought was remedied.
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That is a feature only for tablets. Quite frankly, it would be annoying on phones, but if you want it, Nova launcher.
Download an alternate launcher such as Nova or Apex and you can enable auto rotate on the home screen launcher.
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dammit. i hate launchers. i never got the draw. even when i was a victim of the heavy-hand of Blur, launchers never did it for me. i suppose the old method of modifying a parameter of a file requires root. can't really remember the technical details.
anyway, with the USB on the bottom and the headphones on the top, not having a homescreen (or potentially even the active notifications screen) that rotates kind of sucks.
EDIT: that's right... edit the build.prop file, add the line:
launcher.force_enable_rotation=true
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dammit. i hate launchers. i never got the draw. even when i was a victim of the heavy-hand of Blur, launchers never did it for me. i suppose the old method of modifying a parameter of a file requires root. can't really remember the technical details.
anyway, with the USB on the bottom and the headphones on the top, not having a homescreen (or potentially even the active notifications screen) that rotates kind of sucks.
EDIT: that's right... edit the build.prop file, add the line:
launcher.force_enable_rotation=true
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I've been trying to figure this out too, but all I want to rotate is the active display.
do you think something like "active display.force_enable_rotation=true" would work?
Hate launchers? Get my xperia launcher & fix.
I really like the GEL. my only gripe is the lack of rotation on the active display and the persistent google search bar.
Peace friends! ! !
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I've been very busy with my android desktop and was a big rush to get my supplies LauncherAdvanced, unique thread of my development HERE
I would like to clarify that I have compiled this launcher for a long time, then the android trendy JB was 4.2, I had to make some optimizations so that it can get better at 4.4 and 5.1 (maybe in the future 6.0).
The purpose of the launcher is the same as I always have in mind, do not like and have never liked large packages and applications do not like too much RAM consumption, thinking that I developed this launcher, it is a typical size coming from ADW sources @AnderWeb (Thanks).
Their characteristics are very clear, see below:
Desktop settings
Set icons and wallpaper
Set style dock bar
You can set colors and transparencies in the apps grid
you can create folders and name them
Speed to open the apps grid
Animations, themes etc ..
You can also back up and restore it if you want to save your settings
Known bugs:
At the moment he does not have a transparent status bar (I will fix this)
By using wallpaper is a blur in the dock bar (only the launcher wallpapers, you can use other without problems)
Some other?
It is fully in the development of state and I will appreciate if you understand java and can help me with corrections, so I'll leave my sources available on GitHub
DOWNLOAD HERE
To install:
Download the latest launcher
Pass to your SD
Install usually how to install an apk SD
enjoy
Hi dev I'm using this launcher from past 3 days, really I'm loving it.
I got every thing which I want like ,
It's light weight.
Smooth
I can set it to full screen by hiding status bar.
Specially the short cut icon sick at the bottom ( I really loved the concept).
But after using it I felt like I'm using kitkat launcher in my One plus one (5.1 lollipop).
And their is no smooth scrolling.
Their is a problem with animation.
I'm not getting the widgets properly like my cm weather widget unable to display weather only time and date .
Each icon using more space then the actual size.
I'm unable to increase the size of icons .
Old type widget and shortcut section menu etc .
But I'm still using it coz I'm loving it.
Hope you ll update it soon with latest standards.
Thank you dev
Introduction
Custom AOD image will help users to add images on Samsung's Always On Display. This app will work on Non rooted phones.
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Features
Set Custom Text to AOD screen
Add mood emoji to AOD Screen
Half Pixel images used to prevent screen burn and battery draining issue. Images move after some time ( Image move to next pixel so you can not notice movement, But they surely move).
Text shift position to TOP or BOTTOM to prevent screen burn.
Downloads
Playstore link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.somen.customaod
Issue
This app work with non rooted device, due to system limitations it will take 1or 2 second to remove image from AOD.
Sounds good, But I think I will let others test it out first.
I had tested all ready, working very good , nice customize
Epic find!!!
It still has the blank bar where the navigation bar is located
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It still has the blank bar where the navigation bar is located
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Try these free ones instead - https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74009537&postcount=107
* advantages
- overlay and not a seperate app
- no extra battery drain
- the image works and moves with the official samsung AOD app
- you can create your own images
- no delay or screen bugs
Sounds good.
Thank you.
dhvani is just a che.. not working fully, even his own backgrounds images just work on s8 not fully on s8+ as he claimed. I already bought his prime apk and sad to confirm all these
Issue fixed in next update
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dhvani is just a che.. not working fully, even his own backgrounds images just work on s8 not fully on s8+ as he claimed. I already bought his prime apk and sad to confirm all these
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Sorry for inconvenience. Issue fixed in current update. If you want refund for purchase please mail me. Thanks
Azkan said:
It still has the blank bar where the navigation bar is located
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Issue dixed in current update.
Works as described on Note 8 unrooted. However , i noticed that I lost the ability to use the clock widget. I can't swipe to see the other pages in the widget and interact with it. So I can't click next song for example when playing music.
This is the case even with pratial images (not full screen one's). As if im only clicking/interacting with the image overlay. Is this the case with everyone else?
Any fix? Does it work normally on rooted devices? How do I fox it pls ><
A little expensive the full pack... how many images can personalize? 1 or more?
It seems that there is no more support...
Nice app, but the paid options are way overpriced in my oppinion.
Paid user. Worked perfectly on my note 8. But now using a s10+, Nadroid 9.0 Pi.
The AOD images goes off often and aren't consistent. Only the images within the a few mm of the clock (box range) remains. While the rest reappearing sometimes only and on interactions.
Pls advice
Ok, it's a little crude and you loose the labels, but it is simple and no need for any programming or special skills.
So, my Tab 2 P3100 is now running CyanogenMod 12.1 with Nova Launcher and Theme is Black Accent.
In Nova you can't rearrange the icons in the App Drawer in so many ways.
This is a way to be a liitle more creative.
You need an Icon pack that gives you the option to not have an icon at all.
In my case it's Lines.
However, I want other icons, so I also have Monoic.
You also need a number of apps that you never will use.
How it looks in my Tab:
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Ordinary Lock Screen
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Left Home Screen.......Middle(default).......Right Home Screen
As you can see my Home Screens are off center to the right, but that is easy since Nova let's you place the icons how ever you want.
So I chose an app grid with 1 extra unused column. I can have labels here, but I don't want to.
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Drawer coming up...........Up
To get the same look and keep the icons from the red lines I need an extra column here too.
But Nova will put icons there. And in alphabetical order...
I have renamed apps that I don't use or need and with Lines Icon Pack they got an empty space instead of an image.
In the last row I made one more app "invisible" to center the icons under the others.
Later I may add 2 usable apps to get a full bottom row.
Depending on widgets and number of apps and also the background image, it takes some trial'n'error to find
what app grid you need.
You might even need to install some small garbage app just to make it invisible :laugh:
Edit:
Another way to use the drawer with hidden icons is probably covered somewhere, but if you have your ordinary drawer, apps'n'all...
You can take a screenshot and use that as background (but now your home screen is affected).
Make all icons hidden and you get a transparent "activation sheet" that needs to be pulled upp to use the apps you see in the background.
So I was playing around with some widgets a couple weeks ago and somehow got this Nova "thing" on the side of my screen and can't figure out how to remove it. Seems it's always right in the way, lol. Screenshot below, but a few points:
a.) It's on every page of launcher home screen
b.) I can drag it and keep it anywhere vertically on the side of screen
c.) I can drag it to the other side of the screen but not drop it anywhere in between.
Hope someone can help me here, I feel pretty stupid on this one, thanks!
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So I was playing around with some widgets a couple weeks ago and somehow got this Nova "thing" on the side of my screen and can't figure out how to remove it. Seems it's always right in the way, lol. Screenshot below, but a few tpoints:
a.) It's on every page of launcher home screen
b.) I can drag it and keep it anywhere vertically on the side of screen
c.) I can drag it to the other side of the screen but not drop it anywhere in between.
Hope someone can help me here, I feel pretty stupid on this one, thanks!
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Usually you can drag any widget all the way to the top and a "remove" X will appear to drop it on. If long pressing doesn't give a menu option to remove or delete I would look at my backups. Even if your backup is weeks or months old, restoring it will get rid of the widget and you can quickly arrange things the way they were before. If you don't have any backups, make one and uninstall Nova. Then reinstall and restore to see if the widget is gone.
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Usually you can drag any widget all the way to the top and a "remove" X will appear to drop it on. If long pressing doesn't give a menu option to remove or delete I would look at my backups. Even if your backup is weeks or months old, restoring it will get rid of the widget and you can quickly arrange things the way they were before. If you don't have any backups, make one and uninstall Nova. Then reinstall and restore to see if the widget is gone.
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Ah, good point about the backups, I'll check to see if I have any - I may have some on my cloud drive that I backed up after reset as well. I had looked for the droppable to delete it but wasn't there, was kinda hellbent on figuring out what exactly it is or is supposed to do but I'm just happy to get rid of it at this point. Thanks for the help!
Ever solve this? I have same issue
I have no idea why no one has responded to this but it's actually quite simple go into settings then go to accessibility then choose Nova launcher and you'll see the option to turn off Nova launcher shortcut