Obsidian version: 0.11.4 (also affects all previous versions to date)
Issue
My primary mode of working in Obsidian is 2-pane split view, with editor on left, and preview on right (linked panes). Quite often the view is not remembering that layout. It can happen when switching between notes, or after quitting and later re-launching.
Some scenarios (#1 is the most common for me and is kind of frustrating).
Both panes get turned into “editors” or “previews” - instead of one for each
Right pane gets closed, leaving single edit pane only
Panes get unlinked
Is this a known issue? Anything I can check/do to prevent it from happening? (Even a URI scheme to rapidly switch back to my preferred view would go a long way towards helping this, since I could tie that to an Alfred hotkey for quickly resetting the view.)
I wish I could. yes, see post below. It happens a lot (just happened a few minutes ago…) but it seems pretty random. I posted here in hopes that it’s not “just me” and others will chime in.
@WhiteNoiseI upgraded to the insider track. Still seeing this happen on 0.9.10 (randomly). Really wish I could find a reliable way to reproduce. Has anyone else reported this? I usually launch Obsidian via the obsidian:// URL scheme- could that be the cause? I know there are some bugs there… (figured out repro steps)
start in dual-pane layout. Edit on left, Preview on right.
in the File Explorer, click on an attachment e.g. a PNG file.
both panes will display the PNG
click back on your original note.
voila, both panes are now in Edit mode…
What should happen (imo):
either of these would be good
in step 3 above, only the right-side (Preview) pane should show the PNG. If there is no Preview pane visible when the user clicks the PNG, then open a new preview pane to display it.
~ or~
remember the layout from before clicking the PNG, and restore it when the user clicks back onto an .md file.
With Ctrl pressed, clicking the button for preview mode will enter the split preview mode, with the left side in edit mode and the right side in preview mode, and the notes on both sides are synchronized.
Use Alt+Enter to enter any other note this mode will be maintained.
However, if you enter the picture, then the edit mode on the left will change to preview mode, and then use Ctrl+Alt+Left to return, then both sides will all change to edit mode again.
Sorry, I just started using this feature recently, so I don’t know when it was introduced, but I tested it in the virtual machine to make sure it wasn’t caused by my own extension or other programs.