Darktable bottom panel missing

Software darktable
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Hi folks,

First post on this Darktable subforum. I’ve just been getting used to DT over the last few days. Today for some reason the bottom panel disappeared and I can’t seem to get it back (latest version of DT on macOS by the way). I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it but the problem persists and also I was surprised to see some of the setting had remained even after reinstalling this. There must be some files buried deep in the program library that didn’t get deleted after I uninstalled it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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Hold down the h key and it will list the key combination Ctrl F I think toggles the filmstrip and maybe ctrl b for bottom and then l for left and r for right…I am on my phone but it will be listed… There are usually little arrows midway along but maybe they got turned off??

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Thank you. It was CMD+SHIFT+B in the end.

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Here is some information about keyboard short cuts. These are based on a Windows OS, so I appreciate MAC OS probably replaces Ctrl with CMD, but I am not a MAC user.

Setting up keyboard shortcuts

DT offers several keyboard shortcuts; however, you may be used to specific keyboard shortcuts from other programs, and it is possible to reassign DT keyboard shorts to match what you already know.

  • In the preferences go to shortcuts and find the shortcut you which to alter
  • Double click on it and follow the prompts to reassign keys to the shortcut

Pressing the letter H will reveal the list of keyboard short cuts. If you then press Alt the panel will stay active.

Shortcuts affecting screen real estate

Ctrl-Shift-H reveals or hides histogram.

Ctrl-F reveals or hides film strip

Ctrl-H reveals or hides the top header menu tabs

B reveals or hides the borders with arrows

Ctrl-Shift-R reveals or hides the right panel

Ctrl-Shift- L reveals or hides the left panel

Ctrl-Shift- T reveals or hides the top panel

Ctrl-Shift- B reveals or hides the bottom panel

Lighttable shortcuts

W previews a single image while the button is held down

Alt-W previews a single image in persistent view. Hitting W key will return lighttable to grid view.

Ctrl-W previews a single image with focus detection shown.

Mouse wheel scrolling will move previews through the collection

Ctrl-mouse wheel scroll allows zooming of the image being previewed

Compare view (culling) in lighttable

Select image you want to compare and then hit CTRL-X

Ctrl-mouse wheel zooms all displayed images

Ctrl-shift-mouse wheel zooms only the image where the curser hovers over

Click & drag pans all displayed images and can cause then to be positioned out of view

Click-shift & drag pans only the image that the curser hovers over

Zoom and pan functions work with a maximum of 4 images

Copying Image Settings from one image to others

Shift-Ctrl-C allows you to select what settings will be copied. By default, WB is not copied so choosing it here may be important for a series of images.

Ctrl-V pastes the copied settings to the selected image or multiple images.

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Thanks Terry!