Advice on GUI

I'm a returning player from the classic days, although I have revisited EQ every five years or so for the anniversaries. I suppose that's why I'm back now.

I'm a bit bewildered by the GUI, and particularly how the panes are randomly distributed across my screen.

I can move the panes around, but want to make sure they stay in place.

Could someone please give me some advice about how to set up the panes to best effect and how to get them to stick there so I don't have to rearrange them each time?

Cheers and thanks!

One option, after you resized and moved a window to your liking, is to right click on the title bar of the window and click the Lock option. When Lock is active on a window, there should be a '*' (asterisk) to the left of "Lock."

I advise all the newbies (and returners) to do the following just to start:

1. Make 3 chat windows
2. Chat window 1
   1. Tab 1: Fight/spell spam I care to see.
   2. Tab 2: Fight/spell spam I don't care about
3. Chat window 2
   1. Tab 1: Event information and NPC text
4. Chat window 3
   1. Tab 1: Group, Guild, and Raid chat
   2. Tab 2: OOC, Auction, and other general channels

Where you end up putting those windows is up to you. Many align the windows along the bottom of the screen so that all the action of active gameplay happens above the chat windows. Once they're where you want them, right click on each window and click "lock".

Also - don't use /exit. Your layout changes are not saved when doing this.

Thanks everyone for your awesome advice. The lock function had completely escaped me.

Oh, you also might want to check that there isn't an asterisk next to the 'Esc' to Close in the same window as the Lock.