Tab Titles Only on (Android) Mobile

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Hopefully, this is an easy one…

What I’m trying to do

On the most recent Android app update (1.7.4), the view of my open tabs switched from a plain text list of the note titles in each open tab to large-ish, bordered previews of those notes, which don’t suit how I work on mobile.

What I would like to do is revert back to the list view.

I’m running a fairly basic setup on mobile.

Things I have tried

  1. I searched the forum. (Perhaps I was using the wrong search terms but found no joy with terms like “tabs”, “mobile”, “android”, “list”, etc.
  2. I reread both the Obsidian and the Minimal theme documentation. I may have overlooked my answer there.
  3. I turned off my Minimal theme. (Didn’t solve this issue.)
  4. I’ve played with some of the likely settings:
  • Reduced Tab Bar Height (in Style Settings/Minimal) from 40px (default) to 12 px
  • Cycled through the Tab Styles (in Style Settings/Minimal)
  • Reduced the Stacked Tab Width (in Style Settings/Minimal) from 700 (default) to 14
  • Reduced Stacked Tab Spine Width (in Style Settings/Minimal) from 40 (default) to 14

I’m sure I’ve tried a few more fiddly things that I’ve already forgotten.

If someone could please point me to the appropriate setting for me to flip, you’d be very helpful.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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As far as I’m aware, it’s a change to the underlying system and not just a setting you can change.

If you want that setting added, it’s better to start a feature request instead

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Ahhh, I was afraid that that might be the case. Thanks for taking the time to let me know.

4

Done, thank you.

5

I thought the tab previews were a bit big myself so reduced their height slightly using a CSS snippet. This is on the extreme end, but you could play around with this:

.mobile-tab-preview {
    height: 45px;
}

/*.mobile-tab-preview-embed {
    display: none;
} */

/*.mobile-tab-preview-empty {
    display: none;
} */

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Thank you for taking the time to share your work.

A CSS solution might be a bit out of my wheelhouse. At the moment, I don’t have time to dive into that world, so I’m holding out hope that a switch to revert back might be considered.

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Wow, thank you ariehen!
I have the same problem, and replied to @YumBuying 's feature request.
May I ask if you know how to get the horizontal lines between tabgroups too?
On the new list a new line is created each time a new tabgroup starts.

Here is my usecase: using tabgroups on a phone

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Just found this thread looking for a fix to revert to the old tab list. I really want one single list.

Also found this:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1g83jsh/anyone_else_wanting_an_option_to_enable_the_old/

which has this sample css which helped somewhat:

`/*

  • MOBILE TABS SWITCHER

*/

/* Swap display order of Name and Preview /
.mobile-tab-title {
order: 1;
}
.mobile-tab-preview {
order: 2;
}
/ Adjust height of Previews /
.mobile-tab-preview {
height: 20px;
}
/ Allow Tab Title to wrap*/
.mobile-tab-title {
white-space: pre-wrap;
}
/* Hide Scroll Bar*/
.mobile-tab-switcher-scroll::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none;
}`

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