How do I turn off the chat window?

Davor

I am having an issue where people are chatting that it's blocking my view of my experience gain and what ever other number that is with it. How do I turn off this chat off? I know when I was playing on Xbox One it was on the right side. I am playing on PC (windows) and it's on the left side. How do I turn this off or switch it to the right side?

Daemons_Bane

On the bottom left side, there are a few small buttons.. One of them hides chat


It's that little yellow arrow down on the far left

Davor

Daemons_Bane wrote: »

On the bottom left side, there are a few small buttons.. One of them hides chat

Stupid question. How do I access these buttons. I moved my mouse and it moves as if I was looking lol. Thanks for the quick reply greatly appreciated.

Daemons_Bane

Press enter to chat, then click the arrow to hide chat

Daemons_Bane

You can also do it by pressing "." to enter cursor mode

Danikat

You can click and drag the edges of the chat box to change it's size and shape. I think you can do the same to change it's position but honestly I've never tried doing more than stretching it down to the bottom of the screen and then shrinking the top so it's the same size it was but lower down.

As for turning it off you can disable all the channels individually, and then nothing will come up. But it's probably easier to create a new tab first, so when you want them on again you just need to switch back to the main tab instead of enabling each one.

Tryxus

Press the ";" button to bring up the mouse

Davor

Thank you very much Daemons_Bane.

Daemons_Bane

You're very welcome

Davor

Daemons_Bane wrote: »

You're very welcome

Sorry to bother you, I have clicked on Enter so I can type but when I move the mouse over the screen still moves just like I was moving the mouse to look. Can it be because I am playing with a controller or am I doing something wrong?

Daemons_Bane

I can't tell you how it would work with a controller, since I use a keyboard was the chatbox hidden or shown when you pressed enter?

Davor

It was shown just the same when I hit enter. I can type in the box but as soon as I move my mouse the screen moves.

Daemons_Bane

Hmm Are you trying to chat or to hide it? If you want to chat, try and click on the text area.. It might focus the camera

Davor

I think I got it now. I had something "off" in the option screen under Social. When I turned it on, I did what you said and I was able to hide it now. Thanks you again very much.

Daemons_Bane

Np

smacx250

I've only "tried out" gamepad mode, but if you hit "." to free the cursor, you can then use your mouse or trackpad to move the cursor (moving the controller seems to cancel it) so you can minimize the chat window. Use "." or move the controller lock the cursor again.

Davor

Thanks for the tip smacx250.

Zama666

there is not short cut key to toggle the chat on or off?

the ";" I mappped to combat metrics...

(using a keyboard)