Help me get rid of this bar

[Cole-Hartman]

Hello, I don't want the black bar at the bottom, it appeared when I installed the plugin. Thanks.

[pjeby]

That's the Obsidian status bar. It's expanded from its default size in the default theme to support QE appearing in the lower left. (The / in your picture.) If you want QE to instead appear at the top of the screen, you can change your "Window frame style" in "Appearance > Advanced" to "Obsidian frame". Or, you can hide QE from top and bottom by using the Style Settings plugin and using its "Hide Quick Explorer" option.

Note that if you hide QE entirely, there will be no place to click on it unless you enable "Show tab title bar" in Obsidian's "Appearance > Interface" settings, in which case you can use the paths in the tab title bar as a place to click.

[Cole-Hartman]

Thank you! I guess on an unrelated note, do you happen to know how to get rid of this side tab that appears when I hit tab. I'm not sure what it's from.

[pjeby]

All I see is a big black space in the middle of that picture. I also don't know what you mean by "hit tab". If you're talking about the right hand sidebar, there's a sidebar button at the top of your picture (third from the left, after the + and v ones) and that controls whether Obsidian's right-side sidebar is shown. You can dock tabs there and show or hide the sidebar by clicking that button. Also some Obsidian views will go in that sidebar by default if you don't close them or move them somewhere else.

If you're talking about the bottom of your picture, all the things I see at the bottom are part of your status bar. I don't know what theme you're using, but it doesn't seem to be the Obsidian default theme so I don't know what those things in your status bar are - they're not styled like the default status bar items.

[theKleyko]

That's the Obsidian status bar. It's expanded from its default size in the default theme to support QE appearing in the lower left. (The / in your picture.) If you want QE to instead appear at the top of the screen, you can change your "Window frame style" in "Appearance > Advanced" to "Obsidian frame". Or, you can hide QE from top and bottom by using the Style Settings plugin and using its "Hide Quick Explorer" option.

Note that if you hide QE entirely, there will be no place to click on it unless you enable "Show tab title bar" in Obsidian's "Appearance > Interface" settings, in which case you can use the paths in the tab title bar as a place to click.

Thank you so much for this reply!!!!!!!!! Now this plug in is perfect

[Graywaren]

Immediately upon installing, I also was hunting for this and found this thread. I'm glad it's able to be disabled with style settings, but desperately want to see the settings for the breadcrumb bar within the plugin in itself if remotely possible and not requiring style settings. Style settings is known for causing lag and as even my tiny vault struggles with lag. I desperately want to ditch SS as soon as I can find a theme I like that doesn't require it or make my own. Having the only access to nav pane keyboard navigation require it to have any settings at all is not great. (I still can't believe obsidian once again doesn't have basic keyboard navigation accessibility features standard)

If you were adding settings within the plugin: the breadcrumb bar still needs to be optional to enable, but adding the option by area would be neat if possible now that there's the new web viewer. I definitely don't need the bar to appear in the new web viewer windows, but it could be useful still in note viewing. Having any control over font size would also be useful since before I disable it, the font sizes were quite whacky, half too small and half too large and it's different enough an area/use that font sizes may need adjustment from the standard variables/settings they're set to. A width setting would be nice too, I'd have been less likely to hide the entire bar if I could have it just stay in the editor area rather than along the entire bottom of the app.

I'd also love to see "Open Quick Explorer" be available in the right click context menu for files. It'd be really awesome to be able to right click in a note and go into the quick explorer breadcrumb thing from there! Having a button option for the ribbon menu or along the top of the editor, like where the split & view mode buttons are would also be great. I actually added one myself with another plug in (Commander), so I'm able to open it from within the note editor and I'm looking forward to using that, but I do love seeing plugins offer the settings and features within themselves since obsidian isn't great about performance with a lot of plug ins >.>

Anyway, thanks so much for the keyboard navigation hotkeys! I'm so glad to have them. I look forward to seeing how the popup QE helps me navigate and for future updates!

[pjeby]

The context menu for files already has "Show in Quick Explorer", though?

I do plan to migrate all my plugins away from using Style Settings, it's just not something I've had a lot of time for. Heck, I have yet to upgrade past Obsidian 1.5.8, though I'm hoping to have time soon to move to 1.7.7. 😁 Lately I've been upgrading a lot more slowly because Obsidian keeps changing things in ways I don't like and I have to take the time to write plugins and CSS to revert those bits, so now I'm generally running a version or two behind mainstream nearly all the time.

[Graywaren]

Re: the context menu.. it does show up in the context menu when right clicking in the nav pane or on the tab in the tab bar, but it doesn't show up if you right click in the body of the active note in the editor, so that's what I was talking about.

I definitely hear you about time and obsidian itself. I had it somehow automatically update to 1.7 despite remembering to turn off automatic updates and it took so long to fix/adjust unexpectedly to all the things and I have never stopped hating the awful deferred views implementation.. it's a nightmare for css and plugins and frankly I think it's added more lag to my vault. >.>

Speaking of that deferred view thing, as I'm pretty sure this is caused by it, but every time I relaunch or reload obsidian the breadcrumb bar comes back until I disable and re-enable the plugin. As far as I can tell this is because Style Settings doesn't register the plugin and therefore those settings don't exist on launch. I suspect this has to do with the fact the plugin isn't being loaded until the editor is visible and style settings is doing it's registering before that... or something along those lines as I don't actually have familiarity with the process. It's not the worst bug in the world , but I wanted to mention it so you're aware when you get there and so anyone who comes looking will see how to fix it, albeit temporarily.

Just so it's easier to read for anyone looking in the future:
To Temporarily Fix Reappearing Breadcrumb Bar

• Disable this plugin or style settings
• Re-enable plugin
• Will disappear in a couple seconds as long as it was disabled in SS plugin settings.

[pjeby]

Given what you're describing, the issue is likely that SS is before QE in initialization order, and so isn't picking up the styles. If you disable and re-enable SS instead, and then restart Obsidian, it should end up loading after QE and thus detect its style sheets. (I don't know why SS doesn't monitor plugin loading itself, or wait until all plugins have loaded, or any of several other ways it could handle this.)

I do intend to migrate QE off of SS before too long, though. (I have some other settings I want to add to QE so I'll probably do it at that time.)