IDE notebook tabs suddenly changed

[Manlio]

Using Lazarus IDE on Windows, all of a sudden, the notebook tabs of the different files opened in the editor have changed appearance -- before they were regular tabs, now they are plain text with a different background color.

See the attached image: above is an example of regular tabs, and below is how the tabs now look in my IDE.

I looked everywhere but I cannot find any options or setting for changing the appearance back to regular tabs.

Can anyone kindly suggest how to change the appearance back to regular tabs?

Thanks!

[GAN]

It happens to me sometimes, right click on any tab and select options, then restore to default values.

[Manlio]

right click on any tab and select options

There's no such "options" menu item. If I right click I can only "close tab", or "move to" or "clone to".

[GAN]

I'm sorry, I thought you meant the tabs of the Lazarus IDE.

[eljo]

I'm sorry, I thought you meant the tabs of the Lazarus IDE.

I do not see an options menu when I right click on an editor tab on my lazarus installation either.

Is it possible that a recently installed addin might be responsible for both behaviors you two describe?

[Manlio]

Is it possible that a recently installed addin might be responsible for both behaviors you two describe?

Not in my case. The tabs appearance changed suddenly, while I was typing something in the editor, I must have accidentally pressed Ctrl-something-something and the regular styled tabs disappeared and were replaced by plain text, like some "flat" buttons.

Right-clicking on the tabs themselves opens a small popup menu without anything useful for this purpose.

Right-clicking on the editor and then "Options" is the same as Tools > Options > Editor, but that also doesn't contain any setting that I could find that changes the appearance back to regular tabs.

[Martin_fr]

Do you have any packages installed?

I noted, that the vertical order of (pseudo) tabs, and toolbar changed. The Tabs are now above the editor toolbar.

Try to start your IDE with an empty config (-pcp or --pcp)
lazarus.exe -pcp=d:\empty_folder

You can later switch back to your current config, by starting without that option.

[Martin_fr]

Looks like this: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Package_Tabs

[Manlio]

Looks like this: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Package_Tabs

SOLVED, thanks!

I uninstalled the Package_Tabs and that solved the problem.

Thanks again!