Panel layout

Put the pages, the properties, the register and the tools where they suit you: drag a panel's top strip to pull it out, drop it on any edge, or choose its place from the Panels menu.

Why you would use it

A panel pinned to the side is in the way as often as it’s useful. On a wide screen the properties are better beside the detail you’re looking at; on a laptop they’re better out of the way entirely.

For example

What to do

1. Drag the strip along the top of a panel and it comes away under the pointer.
2. Drop it on an edge of the window to dock it there, or leave it floating where it suits you.
3. Right-click, Panels, or Settings, Appearance, choose a place without dragging at all.
4. Lock the panels when you are happy and nothing can be knocked out of place.

Going further

An undocked panel keeps whatever was showing in it — the tab, the filter, where a list was scrolled — because it’s the same panel, moved, not a copy. It can’t be dragged off screen, and Settings has a Put every panel back.