diff --git a/reference_manual/preferences/general_settings.rst b/reference_manual/preferences/general_settings.rst index 50219f390..35ada40e2 100644 --- a/reference_manual/preferences/general_settings.rst +++ b/reference_manual/preferences/general_settings.rst @@ -1,216 +1,220 @@ .. meta:: :description: General Preferences in Krita. .. metadata-placeholder :authors: - Wolthera van Hövell tot Westerflier - Scott Petrovic - Greig :license: GNU free documentation license 1.3 or later. .. index:: Preferences, Settings, Cursor, Autosave, Tabbed Documents, Subwindow Documents, Pop up palette, File Dialog, Maximum Brush Size, Kinetic Scrolling, Sessions .. _general_settings: ================ General Settings ================ You can access the General Category of the preferences by first going to :menuselection:`Settings --> Configure Krita`. .. image:: /images/en/Krita_Preferences_General.png Cursor Settings --------------- Customize the drawing cursor here: Cursor Shape ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Select a cursor shape to use while the brush tools are used. This cursor will always be visible on the canvas. It is usually set to a type exactly where your pen nib is at. The available cursor types are shown below. Tool Icon Shows the currently selected tool icon,even for the freehand brush. .. image:: /images/en/Settings_cursor_tool_icon.png Arrow Shows a generic cursor. .. image:: /images/en/Settings_cursor_arrow.png Crosshair Shows a precision reticule. .. image:: /images/en/Settings_cursor_crosshair.png Small circle Shows a small white dot with a black outline. .. image:: /images/en/Settings_cursor_small_circle.png No Cursor Show no cursor, useful for tablet-monitors. .. image:: /images/en/Settings_cursor_no_cursor.png Triangle Right-Handed. Gives a small white triangle with a black border. .. image:: /images/en/Settings_cursor_triangle_righthanded.png Triangle Left-Handed. Same as above but mirrored. .. image:: /images/en/Settings_cursor_triangle_lefthanded.png Black Pixel Gives a single black pixel. .. image:: /images/en/Settings_cursor_black_pixel.png White Pixel Gives a single white pixel. .. image:: /images/en/Settings_cursor_white_pixel.png Outline Shape ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Select an outline shape to use while the brush tools are used. This cursor shape will optionally show in the middle of a painting stroke as well. The available outline shape types are shown below.(pictures will come soon) No Outline No outline. Circle Outline Gives a circular outline approximating the brush size. Preview Outline Gives an outline based on the actual shape of the brush. Tilt Outline Gives a circular outline with a tilt-indicator. While Painting... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Show Outline This option when selected will show the brush outline while a stroke is being made. If unchecked the brush outline will not appear during stroke making, it will show up only after the brush stroke is finished. This option works only when Brush Outline is selected as the Cursor Shape. .. versionchanged:: 4.1 Used to be called "Show Outline When Painting" Use effective outline size .. versionadded:: 4.1 This makes sure that the outline size will always be the maximum possible brush diameter, and not the current one as affected by sensors such as pressure. This makes the cursor a little less noisy to use. .. _window_settings: Window Settings --------------- Multiple Document Mode This can be either tabbed like :program:`GIMP` or :program:`Painttool Sai`, or subwindows, like :program:`Photoshop`. Background image Allows you to set a picture background for subwindow mode. Window Background Set the colour of the subwindow canvas area. Don't show contents when moving subwindows. This gives an outline when moving windows to work around ugly glitches with certain graphics-cards. Show on-canvas popup messages Whether or not you want to see the on-canvas pop-up messages that tell you whether you are in tabbed mode, rotating the canvas, or mirroring it. Enable Hi-DPI support Attempt to use the Hi-DPI support. It is an option because we are still experiencing bugs on windows. Allow only once instance of Krita An instance is a single entry in your system's task manager. Turning this option makes sure that Krita will check if there's an instance of Krita open already when you instruct it to open new documents, and then have your documents opened in that single instance. There's some obscure uses to allowing multiple instances, but if you can't think of any, just keep this option on. .. _tool_options_settings: Tools Settings -------------- In docker (default) Gives you the tool options in a docker. In toolbar Gives you the tool options in the toolbar, next to the brush settings. You can open it with :kbd:`\\`. Switch ctrl/alt modifiers This switches the function of the ctrl and alt buttons when modifying selections. Useful for those used to Gimp instead of photoshop, or Lefties without a right-alt key on their keyboard. Enable Touchpainting This allows finger painting with capacitive screens. Some devices have both capacitive touch and a stylus, and then this can interfere. In that case, just toggle this. +.. versionadded:: 4.2 + Activate transform tool after pasting. + A convenience feature. When enabling this, the transform tool will activate after pasting for quick moving or rotating. + Kinetic Scrolling (Needs Restart) This enables kinetic scrolling for scrollable areas. .. figure:: /images/en/Krita_4_0_kinetic_scrolling.gif :align: center Kinetic scrolling on the brush chooser drop-down with activation mode set to `guilabel:`On Click Drag`, with this disabled all of these clicks would lead to a brush being selected regardless of drag motion. Activation How it is activated. Disabled Will never activated. On Touch Drag Will activate if it can recognise a touch event. May not always work. On Click Drag Will activate when it can recognise a click event, will always work. Sensitivity How quickly the feature activates, this effective determines the length of the drag. Show Scrollbar Whether to show scrollbars when doing this. .. _misc_settings: Miscellaneous ------------- When Krita Starts This is the option for handling user sessions. It has the following options: Open Default Window This opens the regular empty window with the last used workspace. Load Previous Session Load the last opened session. If you have :guilabel:`Save session when Krita closes` toggled, this becomes the last files you had open and the like. Show Session Manager Show the session manager directly so you can pick a session. .. versionadded:: 4.1 Save session when Krita closes Save the current open windows, documents and the like into the cuurrent session when closing Krita so you can resume where you left off. .. versionadded:: 4.1 Autosave Every Here the user can specify how often Krita should autosave the file, you can tick the checkbox to turn it off. For Windows these files are saved in the %TEMP% directory. If you are on Linux it is stored in /home/'username'. Compress \*.kra files more. This increases the zip compression on the saved Krita files, which makes them lighter on disk, but this takes longer to load. Upon importing Images as Layers, convert to the image color space. This makes sure that layers are the same color space as the image, necessary for saving to PSD. Undo Stack Size This is the number of undo commands Krita remembers. You can set the value to 0 for unlimited undos. Favorite Presets This determines the amount of presets that can be used in the pop-up palette. Create Backup File When selected Krita will try to save a backup file in case of a crash. Hide splash screen on startup. This'll hide the splash screen automatically once Krita is fully loaded. Enable Native File Dialog This allows you to use the system file dialog. By default turned off because we cannot seem to get native file dialogues 100% bugfree. Maximum brush size This allows you to set the maximum brush size to a size of up to 10.000 pixels. Do be careful with using this, as a 10.000 size pixel can very quickly be a full gigabyte of data being manipulated, per dab. In other words, this might be slow. Recalculate animation cache in background. Krita will recalculate the cache when you're not doing anything. .. versionchanged:: 4.1 This is now in the :ref:`performance_settings` under :guilabel:`Animation Cache`.