I have a question regarding how Renoise handles its window detachment.
Here’s the thing: I use Power Toys to enhance my Windows experience. One of the most useful features is Fancy Zones, which allows me to me rearrange windows in consistent ways.
On the other hand, this is how I use Renoise, with a 2 monitor setup and detached windows:
As you can see, I manually detach and resize Renoise windows side by side.
The downside: they keep floating over other applications, resulting in plugin windows getting hidden sometimes:
Trying to divide the screen using fancy zones doesn’t work, unfortunately, because the windows do not attach to the zones (which can be seen behind, the two transparent squares)
I’ve had the same issue in the past. There is a setting in renoise’s configuration file named Windows decoration if I remember correctly. Set this to true and save the file. Now renoise’s own top borders will be exchanged for the windows decoration borders and you will be able to snap to the different screen configurations. Depending on your renoise theme and windows color theme it can look weird though, takes some time to get used to. Btw in windows 11 I don’t use powertoys anymore, simply dragging the renoise windows will auto fit to whatever chosen screen division if decorations is set to true in the renoise config file.
Yep, that kinda worked. It’s still a bit buggy but at least makes it faster to set up the windows proportionally. When I open a plugin the window resets back to the original position/size set by Renoise.
