EVE Technology Lab

As a work-around, we can use the settings file to place the thumbnail off-screen.

For example, say we have a 1920x1080 pixel monitor and want "hide" thumbnails during character select and for a certain character. Just open "EVE-O Preview.json" with a text editor and add/edit the following lines:

"FlatLayout": {
    "EVE": "1921, 1081",
    "EVE - Character Name": "1921, 1081"
}

Now those thumbnails are just one pixel off the bottom right corner of the screen, never to be seen again! This is useful for avoiding that thumbnail spam stack when launching many clients at once, or to always hide every thumbnail if you only want automatic client positioning*.

Interestingly, the generic "EVE" thumbnail shown at character select can't be placed off the left side of the screen even though character specific thumbnails can. To keep it consistent and easy, I just place them all off the bottom right.



*As a bonus, here's what client positioning and sizing looks like in the config file. Maybe I misunderstand the program, but I can't get EVE-O Preview to generate this even with "track client locations" checked, so hopefully this helps someone else.

"ClientLayout": {
    "EVE": {
        "X": 448,
        "Y": 156,
        "Width": 1024,
        "Height": 768
    },
    "EVE - Character Name": {
        "X": 0,
        "Y": 0,
        "Width": 1024,
        "Height": 768
    }
}

Assuming a 1920x1080 monitor and 1024x768 clients, this will place the logged in character at the top left while centering clients still on character select. When editing for your own use, make sure you update the Width and Height to match your client's resolution!