A few questions on creating darktable shortcuts

Hi folks,

I am still new to DarkTable, but so far it has been going great. I am trying to speed up my workflows by incorporating my LoupeDeck+ and adding some shortcut mappings to it, but am having some challenges. FYI, I am using a Mac.

Let’s say I wanted to map the Exposure slider to some shortcuts in DarkTable:

  • Increase / decrease value
  • Reset exposure to 0 (default)

Right now when I go to shortcuts, I get the view below, but I am not sure how to interpret what I am seeing:

If I double click on exposure: I could potentially do “Shift + E + two finger scroll on my trackpad” and this creates an action which increases and decreases the exposure (what I want)

I suppose I have three questions:

  • How can I go about creating a version of this exact shortcut, which uses only keystrokes instead of mouse scroll? For example, SHIFT + E + ] for increase exposure and SHIFT + E + [ for decreasing it? It seems like the Loupedeck Midi mapping doesn’t like scrolling…
  • Is there a way to map ‘reset to default exposure’ to a short cut? I don’t see it as a option in the list below
  • Once a short cut has been created, how do you go about removing it? I don’t see any delete / remove options in that menu.

Thank you so much in advance for the help!

Yes. Start the mapping tool:

Hover over the (*) reset icon of exposure and press the selected combination (the pointer is not shown in this screenshot, sorry):
image

You can then click on the reset icon to get you to the shortcut definitions. I used Shift + X, which you’ll find below:

Then:

To delete a user-defined shortcut, select it in the bottom panel and press the Delete key.

https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/en/preferences-settings/shortcuts/#shortcut-mapping-screen

That will result in:

Alternatively, you can assign shortcuts to the modules’ presets, too.

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loupedeck_plus…pdf (168.8 KB)
loupedeck_plus.rc.txt (4.6 KB)

THese might be useful…

I think @hannoschwalm shared them… I will confirm and post the link but here they are for now…

Found it it was part of this thread…

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Thank you all so much, that’s super helpful! :pray:

Thank you for the details and screenshots!