Can't dock palettes to main musescore window
I recently downloaded MuseScore 3.6.2 for Mac. When I opened the application, the master palette had detached from the main window (that displays the sheet music) and was floating on the screen as its own separate window. I tried dragging the palette to the left and right sides of the main window, but it didn't merge/dock like it used to. Double-clicking the caption on the palette window did not cause it to re-dock either.
Is there an updated way to dock palettes in 3.6.2, or has this feature been removed altogether?
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The master palette never docked, only the palette from the workspaces do
Indeed, the master palette was never designed to be docked, or indeed, to be left open for any period of time at all - only as an aid to customizing palettes, or in a pinch to access elements from the Advanced workspace while still in Basic. It shouldn't really be needed for anything any more.
The standard (not master) palettes window is still dockable in the same ways as always however - drag to the docking station or double-click title bar. The default is for it to be docked just as always.
In reply to Indeed, the master palette… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you for the reply! I meant standard palette, not master palette. I think I've been dragging it to the wrong place because everything is working now.
In reply to Thank you for the reply! I… by lilacseal
I'm facing the same issue! The standard palette panel (F9) got accidentally enlarged. I could not resize it. So I thought I'd undock then re-dock it. But now that I've undocked it, I can't re-dock it!! Double-clicking the title bar simply maximizes the window. Double-clicking again "restores" the window to its former size. But it doesn't re-dock. And AFACIT, there's nowhere in MuseScore to tell the panel to dock or to "reset" the palette panel so it's docked.
Just to provide more context, running Manjaro with KDE on Wayland--that may be significant.
In reply to I'm facing the same issue!… by craigeshea
You can also try to drag it back into place, but the hotspot is fairly small.
In reply to Thank you for the reply! I… by lilacseal
In the end, I ended up Killing (not closing down gracefully, but SIG_KILL) MuseScore. I didn't want to shut it down gracefully lest MuseScore gets smart thinking it would be nice to save my "preference" of having the palette undocked, which is NOT what I want. Anyway, killing MuseScore and re-opening it did the trick. The palette is now docked again.
This could be a compatibility issue between MuseScore, Qt, KDE, and/or Wayland.
Got the thing working again by deleting the ~/.config/MuseScore/MuseScore3.ini file. Surely due to a compatibility problem with Wayland that make impossible to dock back an undocked palette.