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Settings

App-wide preferences across five tabs, including customizable keyboard shortcuts.

The Settings dialog is the home for app preferences. It has five tabs, including a complete shortcut editor.

When it opens

  • Menu: Edit → Settings
  • Hotkey: Ctrl+,

Tabs

TabCovers
GeneralAutosave, local API server, update check. See Settings, General.
Units & GridDisplay units, grid spacing, snap tolerances, nudge distances. See Settings, Units & Grid.
DisplayApp appearance, workspace background, antialiasing, fill rendering, motion, scroll wheel. See Settings, Display.
File & ImportTool-layer import behavior and preference-file import, export, folder, and reset actions. See Settings, File & Import.
ShortcutsSearch, assign, and reset keyboard shortcuts. See Keyboard shortcuts.

Buttons

  • Cancel: dismiss the settings draft. Preference import or reset actions that already completed are not undone.
  • Save: persist all changes from all tabs.

Notes

  • The dialog is a movable, resizable frame.
  • Edits across tabs accumulate as a draft. Save commits them all atomically.
  • All preference changes apply immediately on save (no restart required).
  • App appearance and workspace background are separate settings. Saving either one does not change the other.

Per-tab reference pages have the full field-by-field detail:

Plus:

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