7. Dock Windows¶
The user interface of Little Navmap consists of a main window and several dock windows which can be detached from the main window or arranged within the main window.
The docked windows can be moved around in their docked position and can be detached from the main window by simply dragging them outside of the main window (click the title bar to drag), by double-clicking their title bar or by clicking on the window symbol on the top right.
Double click on the docked window’s title bar or click on the window symbol again to move the windows back into their docked position in the main window.
All docked windows, except the map window, can be closed if they are not needed. You can also drop docked windows on each other to create a tabbed view. The tabs will appear at the bottom of the dock stack in this case.
Note that dock windows open automatically when selecting functions like
Show Information
or clicking on the user aircraft, for example.
You can save and load dock window layouts in the Window
menu. See also Window Layout for
details.
More dock window related settings like auto activation on mouse overr can be found in the options on page User Interface.
Tip
Hold Ctrl
while clicking on the window title bar to prevent a window
from going back into the docked state in the main window and keep it
floating.
You can also deselect Window
-> Allow Window docking in the main menu to prevent the dock
windows from snapping back into the main window.
Toolbars are also movable by clicking on the left handle and can also be
closed or detached from the main window similar to the dock windows.
Toolbars can also be opened and closed in the main menu Window
.

Cursor above the toolbar handle that has to be clicked to move or to undock the toolbar.
Note
Use the Window
menu in the in the main menu to save, load or restore
closed windows, toolbars and tabs.
The Window
-> Reset Window Layout
menu item in the
main menu can be used to reset the state and positions of all dock
windows and toolbars back to their default. This also resets the tab visibility and order back to default.

Title bar of a dock window marked red.

Moving a dock window around. The blue background opens to indicate a space in the main window where the dock can be dropped in.

Dock window in floating state detached from main window.

Dropping a dock window on another to create a stack.

A stack of two dock windows. The tab bar is marked red at the bottom of the stacked dock windows.
Note
You must click on the title bar of a window to remove it from the stack, not on the tab bar.