Darktable 5.2 - disable collection bar

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Hi guys, as much as I love DT there’s one thing that would make it more perfect for my requirements…

Being able to remove permanently the collections bar, which is at the bottom of the screen upon launch. I use a laptop for editing and having this just takes up too much screen real estate and is surplus to my requirements.

Is there a way of permanently disabling this so that it doesn’t appear whenever I launch DT?

To be clear, I only want to disable the lighter grey part of the image below and retain everything above it.

Cheers.

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That looks like the filmstrip in darkroom view…just toggle the little triangle at the bottom of the screen…it cycles through the display of the bottom elements of that view…

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CRTL-F turns it off

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Thanks for your reply!

That works for the session, but the bar comes back when DT relaunches. Is there a way to permanently disable it?

If not, I can work with this. It’s far better than clicking below the offending bar multiple times for it to disappear each session.

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When you turn it off and quit darktable it should get written to your darktablerc file. When you start darktable, it should read the darktablerc file and restore the settings.

The entry in the darktablerc file is plugins/lighttable/1/filmstrip_visible=FALSE

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Ctrl+Shift+B a few times to cycle through the options (or click the triangle/ arrow at the bottom).

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And of course the documentation:

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Is it possible to lock the position of the panels and thus “hide” the triangles? This would be helpful when using a stylus.

Furthermore, is there a way to scroll through the right panel, for example, with Ctrl + touchpad up/down? Default is the slider +/-

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Does this solve your issue?

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).
(darktable user manual - miscellaneous)

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thank you very much!!!

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).

This solves my issue.

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One slight gotcha. Scrolling the mouse will scroll the modules, it will not scroll sliders. But it does scroll presets, even when the module is closed One can find some weird things happening to image and think, duh! what did I do? Usually easily correctable with a ctrl-z or (especially if you have altered more than one module), stepping back in the history module.

I’m used to scrolling modules with the wheel, but, occasionally I get clumsy.

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You can scroll sliders with Strg or Shift or Alt + mouse wheel. that is ok for me.

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This is definitely an interesting decision… Any way to turn this off? :smiley:

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