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[Q] App names: use two lines in home screens?

The stock launcher and GO Launcher squeeze the app names into one line on the home screens.
Alarm & Ti-, Ultimate S-, Wireless Te-, just about each and every app name gets truncated unless it's a very short name. This is really annoying for apps like Google Sk-, Google Ma-, Google Tr-, ... . And if you have a few apps installed with names that start with "Ultimate" (there are hundreds of 'em) their names all look the same on your home screen.
Two lines is enough to display the full name of most apps. The stock launcher and GO use two lines in the app drawer, they just won't do it on the home screens.
Q: Is there a way to force these launchers to use two lines on the home screens too?
There's plenty of space for a second line of text on the home screens. Even with 5 rows of apps the icons are spaced far enough to allow a second line. There just needs to be a way to tell the launchers to use the excess blank space.
If the stock launcher and GO can't do it, then which launchers can?

I know ADW Ex displays the text on two lines - they kind of overlap, but it's completely legible. I would think the free version would too, but I'm not 100% because I haven't used it in forever.

[Q] problem with phantom widgets

strange issue...on a couple of my pages i have 'dead' spots in the sense that i can put any widgets or program icons there...it is as if there is an invisible widget there (they are the size of widgets and not program icons)...almost as if i need a screen refresh...it might be the result of me deleting widgets from the 2 pages - i don't recall which widgets i might have had there and subsequently deleted...any help to get rid of this odd issue would be appreciated...i am probably overlooking something obvious

Sometimes it's because the widget has a large border and the widget icon is just normal size. The way around this is installing a launcher like ADWLauncher EX. This will allow you to edit the borders of most widgets and shrink it down if necessary.
Also you could have a dead widget occupying that spot after you uninstalled the app. Sometimes the devs don't add a line of code that deletes the active widget off the screen but instead just makes it transparent. Try long pressing in that spot and see if you get the trash bar to appear. If so just drag it off to the trash.
Also are you trying to load an icon or widget into the space close to the edge of the screen? If your running the stock launcher it reserves a large portion of the sides of the screen.

if you look a the placing of certain Widgets some are on the dots some are between them, they take up 2 squares

I thought i had tried the long hold garbage can trick but it worked this ttime..yeah
Thanx

[Q] ADW EX. Cannot put icons on sides!

Hi
I have the paid version of ADW Ex 1.3.3.1 and after being inspired by the many homescreens of Transformer, tried mine and has problems:
1) I know there is a hidden dock but I cannot get it to show even after ticking show hidden dock in settings.
2) When I try to keep a widge to the sides of screen it goes to the next screen and does not stay there. I have seen screenshots of users with icons on either sides. I did change the rows and columns under UI to 10 and 10. Still no joy.
Any help appreciated.

This is how you get the icons on the edge of the screen
Heres everyones chance for payback
I had ADW setup last night and at some point I was unable to use the left and right 1/2" of the screen for widget placement. I can with Launcher pro but it doesnt have some features I want. (ADW has a widget for selecting a specific homescreen).
What setting did I change to lose the real estate on the left and right part of the screen. This is in landscape BTW, I don't use portrait much.
I have searched so much that I now hate the 60 seconds between searches rule
Please help this dumbass frog in his quest and I will take all smartass comments with humor. Thank you in advance.
I quit looking and found the answer. Thanks SwiftLegend
Originally Posted by SwiftLegend
ADWSettings > UI settings > Main dock > click it off. Your homescreen should shift over a column, or the column on the farthest left should free up.
for the hidden dock, I know its in the UI settings somewhere.
Also you can long press anywhere on the screens and select launcher actions, and then put an icon on the screen that would make the hidden dock, appear and reappear.....their is also a tutorial on how to make the icon transparent.
go to the themes and apps section of the forum and read page 1 of the hubs layout thread on the front page

Thank'd.
Would you know how to make the Dock appear on either sides instead of one below? Does not make much sense to get an icon column for loosing a dock.

RAMBO29 said:
Hi
I have the paid version of ADW Ex 1.3.3.1 and after being inspired by the many homescreens of Transformer, tried mine and has problems:
1) I know there is a hidden dock but I cannot get it to show even after ticking show hidden dock in settings.
2) When I try to keep a widge to the sides of screen it goes to the next screen and does not stay there. I have seen screenshots of users with icons on either sides. I did change the rows and columns under UI to 10 and 10. Still no joy.
Any help appreciated.
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Go into ADW settings and set one of the swipe actions to reveal the hidden bar. Its the easiest way I've found

RAMBO29 said:
Thank'd.
Would you know how to make the Dock appear on either sides instead of one below? Does not make much sense to get an icon column for loosing a dock.
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It's either one or the other. The dock takes up a whole column so you can't have both. If that is what you mean.
If you want the dock to be on the side, you have to use the main one which will then make the big gap on the left of the screen. If you really want it, try VLT Launcher (It's either VLT or VTL) You can have a dock on either side and on the top or bottom. It is built using ADW source code, so it has most, if not all the same settings/features.
Easiest way to turn on and off the secondary dockbar ("hidden dock") you can either use a icon: Long press on Home Screen > Launcher Actions > Hide/Show Dockbar or set it to a swipe action: ADWSettings > General Behavior > Gestures. Mine is set to a swipe down to open/close, swipe up to open/close app drawer.
Also, like previously said, check out the Hub's layout thread. There's a lot of info on manipulating ADW in there, some of it from yours truly . Just gotta look a little.

Thank'd all of you.
I do not know which settings but trying all that was posted here has made the sides usable and Dock still available.
I did try VTL and it was good ,but was too laggy and looked too big(reslution issue?).Anyways happy with ADW. launcher Pro also seems to be good.

The Beginner's Guide to ADW

I've been seeing a lot of threads (not only here) about ADW and ADW EX, the different settings, how to do certain things, etc. I don't think Ander ever wrote up a documentation so here's my little guide.
Anyone that would like to add anything, PM me and I'll add it in.
Little overview of ADW
ADW (EX) is a home launcher replacement. What does that mean? Well the home launcher, usually just called launcher, is pretty much the main way to get around on your Android device. It's the first thing you see when you turn your device on and it is what all of your apps, folders, and widgets are displayed on. To relate it to something everyone knows just think of your Windows/ OS X desktop. You know the thing you probably stare at saying "What did I want to do?!" and is a cluttered mess of icons? Yeah that's your desktop. The launcher on your device is essentially the same thing.
Quick rundown of the settings
When you first open the settings menu, you will see a list of 9 options. The top 4 are the ones you will be tweaking and constantly going into.
Presets - Profiles of settings that are preloaded into ADW. You can also create your own. Presets are just quick and easy ways to switch different things like icon size, dock type, workspace size, etc. These are only settings, NOT layouts.
UI Settings - The foundation of your launcher. From here you will edit things like Icon size, icon backgrounds, Dock type, the amount of rows and columns your workspace has, the App Drawer, and ADW's Hidden Dockbar. These are the real customization settings.
General Behavior - Name says it all. Screen transition effects, gesture controls, and the way ADW interacts with your device's hardware is all found here.
Theme Preferences - Again, pretty self explanatory. From here you choose what custom ADW theme you want on certain things. You can set 1 theme to cover everything, or use separate themes for icons, the dock background, and the hidden dock.
Backup and Restore - Backs up and restores your settings and icon layout. This does not work with widgets (I believe)
Tips and Tricks
Resizing
To resize a widget, you simply long press a widget until the little pop up menu appears and then click "Edit." The resize feature let's you resize in 4 different diretions (up, down, left, right), kind of like in a Word document. I find this to be a lot better than LauncherPro's because LP forces you to resize diagonally. To have some widgets overlapping, go to ADWSettings > UI Settings > Screen and click the Overlapping Widgets option. After that you can now overlap any widget over another widget or icon. Just remember that if you want a certain widget/icon to be BELOW another widget, the item you want below has to be placed on the screen first. If not, then it won't work.​

Why are my new home screen icons added to the (non-existing) second page when installing a new app?

Is it possible to change this behavior that the home screen icon for newly installed apps gets placed on the second page every time?
I've just flashed my SM-N986B back to original stock (reverting A11->A10 because of missing GoodLock support) but the icons still get placed on the second page.
-There is a lot of free space for icons on the "main/only page" of home
-I've even deleted all the pages (only home remained) , but after installing any new app there is a new page created and the icon gets placed there
-In DEX there is no option to rearrange the phone home icons and its annoying to move the icons one by one for every application I install
I've tested this on OneUI 3, OneUI 2.5, CPL and BlackBerryLauncher but found no solution.
Thank you in advance for any suggestion!

Szior said:
Is it possible to change this behavior that the home screen icon for newly installed apps gets placed on the second page every time?
I've just flashed my SM-N986B back to original stock (reverting A11->A10 because of missing GoodLock support) but the icons still get placed on the second page.
-There is a lot of free space for icons on the "main/only page" of home
-I've even deleted all the pages (only home remained) , but after installing any new app there is a new page created and the icon gets placed there
-In DEX there is no option to rearrange the phone home icons and its annoying to move the icons one by one for every application I install
I've tested this on OneUI 3, OneUI 2.5, CPL and BlackBerryLauncher but found no solution.
Thank you in advance for any suggestion!
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I don't know why it adds new apps to a second home screen when there is room on the existing home screen, but you can disable the behavior by going into home screen settings and disable the option to add new apps to the home screen.