miscellaneous

🔗interface

show splash screen at startup

When activated, darktable will display a splash screen indicating progress loading and initializing its code and data and scanning for updated sidecars until it is ready to display its main window. When disabled, darktable displays nothing until loading is complete and it can display the lighttable – or darkrooom, if invoked with a single filename on the command line (default on).

load default shortcuts at startup

When launching the application, darktable loads default shortcuts first, and then loads user-defined shortcuts on top. This allows default shortcuts to be overridden with a new action but prevents them from being deleted (since the deleted shortcut will be automatically reloaded on the next restart). Deactivate this preference to stop loading default shortcuts on startup – only load the user-defined ones (including any defaults that you have not subsequently deleted or overridden). This makes deletion easier but also means that you will not benefit from new shortcuts added in future versions without first re-enabling this preference (default on).

scale slider step with min/max

When activated, the default step-size, when altering sliders, will depend on the current min/max values for that slider (default on).

sort built-in presets first

Choose how the presets menu is sorted. If this option is enabled, built-in presets are shown first. If the option is disabled, user presets are shown first (default on).

mouse wheel scrolls modules side panel by default

When enabled, the mouse wheel scrolls side panels by default and Ctrl+Alt+wheel scrolls data entry fields. When disabled, this behavior is reversed (default off).

always show panels’ scrollbars

Defines whether the panel scrollbars should be always visible or activated only depending on the panel content (default on). (needs a restart)

duration of the ui transitions in ms

Defines how long modules and other ui elements will take to transition between states (expand/collapse). Set to 0 to disable animation (default 250ms).

position of the scopes module

Choose whether to show the scopes module in the left or right panel (default right). (needs a restart)

method to use for getting the display profile

This option allows the user to force darktable to use a specific method to obtain the current display profile for color management. In the default setting “all”, darktable will choose to query the X display server’s xatom or the colord system service. You can set this option to “xatom” or “colord” to enforce a specific method if the two methods give different results. You can run the darktable-cmstest binary to examine your color management subsystem.

order or exclude midi devices

Semicolon-separated list of device-name fragments. If matched, load the midi device at the id given by the location in the list. If preceded by “-”, prevent the matched device from loading. You can also add encoding and number of knobs. For example “BeatStep:63:16”. Please see midi device support for more information.

🔗tags

omit hierarchy in simple tag lists

When exporting images any hierarchical tags are also added as a simple list of non-hierarchical tags to make them visible to some other programs. When this option is checked darktable will only include the last part of the hierarchy and ignore the rest. So foo|bar|baz will only add baz.

🔗shortcuts with multiple instances

It is possible to create multiple instances of many processing modules. In this scenario it is not always obvious which instance should be controlled by keyboard shortcut operations. The following options control rules that are applied (in order) to decide which module instance keyboard shortcuts should be applied to.

These rules are also used when clicking and dragging on the scopes module to change exposure.

prefer focused instance

If an instance has focus, apply the shortcut to that instance and ignore any other rules. Note that this option does not impact blending shortcuts, which are always applied to the focused instance (default on).

prefer expanded instances

If instances of the module are expanded, ignore collapsed instances (default off).

prefer enabled instances

After applying the above rule, if remaining instances of the module are active, ignore inactive instances (default off).

prefer unmasked instances

After applying the above rules, if remaining instances of the module are unmasked, ignore masked instances (default off).

selection order

After applying the above rules, apply the shortcut to the first or last instance remaining (default “last instance”).

🔗map / geolocalization view

pretty print the image location

Show a more readable representation of the geo-location in the image information module (default on).

🔗slideshow view

waiting time before each picture in slideshow

The number of seconds before displaying the next image (default 5) in the slideshow view.