How to set the default focused panel?

[mrbeardad]

Topic
How to set the default focused panel?

Your thoughts
Set the default focused panel to commit graph and windowSize: half is usefult for the most scene

[mark2185]

You could run lazygit log which would get you half-way there. It looks like the config option gui.windowSize is ignored when launching lazygit with an argument, it's set to full automatically. That sounds like an issue, but not necessarily.

$> lazygit --help
lazygit

  Usage:
    lazygit [git-arg]

  Positional Variables: 
    git-arg   Panel to focus upon opening lazygit. Accepted values (based on git terminology): status, branch, log, stash. Ignored if --filter arg is passed.

[ChrisMcD1]

*Note: gui.windowSize was renamed to gui.screenMode in #4142.

The default behavior of screenMode when you have a git-arg appears to currently be SCREEN_HALF, which is what you are asking for @mrbeardad

lazygit/pkg/gui/gui.go

Lines 589 to 597 in 3915cb6

	func initialScreenMode(startArgs appTypes.StartArgs, config config.AppConfigurer) types.ScreenMode {
	if startArgs.ScreenMode != "" {
	return parseScreenModeArg(startArgs.ScreenMode)
	} else if startArgs.FilterPath != "" || startArgs.GitArg != appTypes.GitArgNone {
	return types.SCREEN_HALF
	} else {
	return parseScreenModeArg(config.GetUserConfig().Gui.ScreenMode)
	}
	}

So if you just do lazgit log you will get this screen which sounds like what you are looking for. As far as I can tell, there isn't a configuration value to have this launch when you do a normal lazygit instantiation.

[mrbeardad]

great job, thanks