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View Functions

A list of functions for changing your view and saving layouts can be found in the table below.

Function

How to access it

What it does

Opens this dialog box

Notes

Set the
display
properties

• Right-click | main canvas > Display Properties

• Menubar | View >
Display Properties

Opens a dialog box allowing you to control how the main canvas
displays.

Display Properties Dialog

 

Save the
current layout

• Menubar | View > Save Layout

Saves the current layout of your Mari workspace as a *.mws file.

Save Window
Layout

Saves the position of palettes and other
elements of the GUI.

Open a saved layout

• Menubar | View > Load Layout

Opens a saved layout (*.mws file).

Load Window
Layout

By default, Mari starts with the last-used
layout.

Revert to the default layout

• Menubar | View > Default Layout

Resets the layout back to the Mari default.

 

 

Save image of current
canvas

• Menubar | View > Take Screenshot

Saves the current view of the canvas as an image file.

 

Various image formats available.

Adjust the screenshot settings

• Menubar | View >
Screenshot Settings

Opens a dialog box that allows you to set how screenshots are saved.

Screenshot Settings

 

Hide docked palettes

• Menubar | View > Hide Palettes

• Keyboard | Space bar

Hides all docked palettes, so the canvas takes up the entire
workspace.

 

The Space bar cycles between showing all palettes, hiding undocked palettes, and hiding all palettes.

Hide GUI
components on canvas

• Keyboard | /

Hides displayed
information (such as the histogram, heads-up
display, etc) from the canvas.

 

 

View a
particular
palette

• Menubar | View > Palettes ><palette name>

• Right-click | Menubar or Toolbar > <palette name>

Displays the selected palette.

 

The palette re-displays in its last position.

Enter full screen mode

• Menubar | View > Full Screen

Enters full screen mode

 

Click View > Full Screen to exit full screen mode.