Settings

Settings (Ctrl+,, ⌘, in the Mirada menu on a Mac) applies each change the moment you make it; there is no Save button.

Appearance

• Theme: follow the system, light, or dark. Following the system tracks it as it changes. On macOS and Windows the current thumbnail, the palette’s highlighted row and every selection take the system’s accent colour, adjusted when it is too pale or too deep to read text on; Linux keeps the blue.

Viewer

• Thumbnails at start: open the thumbnail strip when Mirada starts. T toggles it any time.
• Thumbnails at the side, File names under thumbnails, File names instead of pictures: the strip’s layout.
• Properties at start: open the properties sidebar when Mirada starts. I toggles it.
• Hide controls after: how long the pointer rests before the floating controls fade, 1 to 10 seconds (2 by default).
• Keep zoom when stepping: keep the zoom and position when moving to another image, to compare the same detail. Z toggles it.

Folder

• Sort by: name, date modified or size.
• Reverse order: last first, so newest, largest, or Z to A.
• Slideshow speed: seconds each image shows, 1 to 60 (5 by default). F5 starts it.

Keys

• Command palette: the keys that open it. See Changing the palette’s keys.

The settings file

Settings are a plain settings.properties file, meant to be readable and editable by hand:

On macOS and Windows a ~/.mirada from 0.1.0 is moved there on the first start. Every value is checked as it is read, and one out of range is brought back into it, so a bad edit cannot break the next start; a file that will not parse at all is simply the defaults.

theme=system
start.thumbnails=false
start.info=false
controls.hideSeconds=2
sort.by=name
sort.reversed=false
view.keepZoom=false
thumbnails.side=false
thumbnails.names=false
thumbnails.captions=false
slideshow.seconds=5
palette.keys=C-S-p M-x f1

Mirada also keeps the window’s place and size there, and the last ten folders for Open Recent.