Layout for large screens suboptimal

[PSeitz]

On large screens (3440x1440), the middle is pretty much empty in the show reference lsp integration.

[l-kershaw]

You can adjust your layout_defaults in your setup to make the layout of pickers better fit your screen size.

For example you could use the following:

require('telescope').setup({
  defaults = {
    layout_defaults = {
      horizontal = {
        width_padding = 0.2
      }
    }
  }
})

This example will adjust the space both to the left and right of any picker in the horizontal layout (as used in your screenshot) to be 20% of your screen width. This leaves 60% for the picker itself, which will reduce the amount of empty space in the middle of the screen. You can obviously adjust the exact number to suit your preferences 🙂

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Note that we are currently working on a way to more easily set up preferences for layout (see #823), so you may need to update this config soon.

[PSeitz]

Thanks, then I will wait.

I think for this use case, the padding should only be active after a certain threshold, or even better (and probably easier) that you can set a maximum width for the window.

[l-kershaw]

@PSeitz just a heads up that the layout preferences PR has now been merged.

With the new changes you can pass a function to determine the width of the picker exactly how you want, so your threshold idea wouldn't be to difficult to implement in your config files.

If you have any further problems with the layout stuff, feel free to ping me 🙂

[fdschmidt93]

Closing this as it has become a stale issue and can easily be handled on the user side with good documentation. Please ping here if there is more to discuss.