no chat window at login
 

Ok, this happens periodically due to idiot user error. (That would be me, yes.)

I accidently, while looting through a chat window that allows clickthrough, close my chat window. No big deal, since you can press Enter to get it back, right?

Well, if I make that mistake and fix it by pressing Enter to get my chat window back, when I log out that toon and bring it back, no chat window at login.

I'd really like to have my chat window at login. What can I do to fix this, please?

Great mod, Zonx!

1) Window settings that are altered through any means other than the mouse often do not get saved. Anytime you open a window via ENTER, you may want to move and/or resize it a tad by mouse.

2) Set 1 chat window that's out of the way to "Always Chat Here" via right-click menu. Then turn off the titlebar of all other chat windows so they can't be closed accidentally.

3) Avoid using the mouse for looting. Lotto All/Accept Item activates with ENTER. Decline activates with ESC. Should only need to click the loot window to examine or select one item from a list.

4) If this is still a frequent problem for you, you might consider removing the close button from eq2ui_mainhud_chat.xml and use right-click to close chat windows instead.

Thanks for the reply, Zonx. I've already moved the chat window, and that didn't work. I'll try the other steps, and see what happens!

And I wasn't very eloquent in how I worded that. The looting problem happened when I clicked on a corpse to open the loot window, and it happened to hop the cursor enough so that my click happened on the chat window's [x] button.

Garylian

Settings files do sometimes get bugged and refuse to save settings for some windows, particularly chat and bags. If all else fails, you may want to try /load_uisettings and select a character with settings you like.

As a last resort, trash the settings file for that toon and resetup your windows from scratch.