Question - New Macroquest Console

[Psy]

I know the new MQ console window has been around for quite a while now and it pops up when I load up each day, but for some reason I can not get it to save in a different spot. It always load on the left middle side of the windowed EQ instance. See photo below. How can I close the old one on the bottom left and use the new shiny one only and get it to stay where the old one is now?

 

[Redbot]

The old window is called MQ2ChatWnd, and the command /mqmin will minimize it. You can completely unload it with /plugin mq2chatwnd unload.

As for the new window, /mqconsole, it should automatically stay where you place it. If not, make sure the MacroQuest_Overlay.ini in your config folder isn't being write-protected by something on your PC. And if all else fails, you can manually edit that file.

Example,

[Window][MacroQuest Console]
ViewportPos=536,718
ViewportId=0xDA874036
Size=1280,400
Collapsed=0
DockId=0x00000009,0

Change the ViewportPos and you're set.

 

[Psy]

The old window is called MQ2ChatWnd, and the command /mqmin will minimize it. You can completely unload it with /plugin mq2chatwnd unload.

As for the new window, /mqconsole, it should automatically stay where you place it. If not, make sure the MacroQuest_Overlay.ini in your config folder isn't being write-protected by something on your PC. And if all else fails, you can manually edit that file.

Example,

[Window][MacroQuest Console]
ViewportPos=536,718
ViewportId=0xDA874036
Size=1280,400
Collapsed=0
DockId=0x00000009,0

Change the ViewportPos and you're set.

Amazing, thank you very much. I edited the file with your suggested info and it started up with the new console in the center of the screen, but once I resized and placed it where I wanted and closed it, it now saves there and loads that way each time. You guys rock!

 

[Psy]

Amazing, thank you very much. I edited the file with your suggested info and it started up with the new console in the center of the screen, but once I resized and placed it where I wanted and closed it, it now saves there and loads that way each time. You guys rock!

Ok, I spoke too soon. After I did the fix this morning, I turned off my computer. Came back and logged in this evening and the window had reset itself. I looked at the MacroQuest_Overlay.ini file and it went back to the default entry I overwrote this morning. I'm on Win11 and I did go into virus and threat protection and excluded the entire folder over a month ago and I did not update anything in the launcher, so I have no idea why it would have reverted to the old file. Any thoughts/suggestions would be welcome. For now, back to the old window /sigh

edit - I also use isboxer and I notice that when I move the new console to it's new location and then change to a different toon with isboxer and then go back to the toon that I adjusted the new console in, it reverts back to the middle left where it was when I logged in. Leads me to belive that isboxer is the culprit here.

 

[Fennil]

is there a way to take this off of the keystroke ctrl ` it locks my ctrl key down every so often and makes me disband alot lol

 

[Sic]

is there a way to take this off of the keystroke ctrl ` it locks my ctrl key down every so often and makes me disband alot lol

You could edit in your MacroQuest.ini

You could also just /mqconsole show

 

[Fennil]

You could edit in your MacroQuest.ini

You could also just /mqconsole show

thank you so much sic, sure enough it was bound to ctrl+` and my Adhd side always swappin windows and bashing ` when tryin to heal hopefully that resolves it for me. thank you again sir