General Options Property Sheet

The General Options property sheet allows adjusting the most common Actual Tools program options.

Language combo box - here you can select the preferred language for the whole Actual Tools program's user interface.

Control Center Options group provides check boxes that provide the control on Actual Window Manager's Control Center appearance and behavior.

• Load at startup check box - mark it to load the Control Center as soon as Windows® starts.

• Enable tray icon check box - mark it to show the Actual Window Manager's icon in the system tray while the Control Center is loaded.

• Enable logging check box - mark it to turn on the Windows Monitoring Log tool. You can also do this using the Enable logging command in Control Center's context menu.

Manage Window Settings group gives you the opportunity to manage certain window's settings in a quick and convenient manner by calling the Configuration Module either via additional title button (with the "spanner" icon on it) or via additional submenu (named "Actual Window Manager") in window's system menu.

• Via "spanner" title button check box - mark it to add the Manage Window Settings title button to every window's title bar.

• Via "Actual Window Manager" submenu check box - mark it to extend every window's system menu with the additional "Actual Window Manager" submenu.

Both these controls (button and submenu) display a menu with the following management commands:

• Currently applied: "<rule_name>" - inactive information item that just displays the name of window settings which have been applied to the target window.

• Modify applied settings - click this item to launch the Configuration Module and automatically locate there the item representing the currently applied window settings. It's the most recommended way to quickly adjust a couple of options in a certain window settings.

• Reapply settings - click this item to force Actual Window Manager to reset the target window to its default state, then search again for a proper rule, then execute the actions enabled in the found rule for window's startup

• Create new specific settings - click this item to launch the Configuration Module and automatically create there new specific window settings with the Target Window criteria automatically filled with values retrieved from the target window. This can be useful in two cases:

  1. when the target window gets in the scope of the default settings but you want to provide custom settings for it (for example, define a custom set of title buttons or adjust the startup position)

  2. when the target window gets in the scope of the certain specific settings but you want to create another specific settings exactly for this type of window (usually, consider its current caption value)

• Exclude this window - click this item to launch the Configuration Module and automatically create there new exclusion with the Target Window criteria automatically filled with values retrieved from the target window. This can be useful when Actual Window Manager causes some kind of troubles when processing a certain window, and you want to prohibit its processing and therefore avoid the troubles.