Darktable 1.4.x Shortcuts

Darktable allows the export of the complete keyboardrc, which would create a roughly 80k file containing tons of lines like the following:

; (gtk_accel_path “/global/map view” “m”)

With this file you can basically create any key assignment, that you like. However the generated file is complete unsorted.

To make some sort of sense of the keyboardrc file I suggest to sort the file by invoking the sort command:

$ sort keyboardrc | less

or alternatively the command

$ sort keyboardrc | sed -e '/ "")$/d' | less

This will edit out all commands, which don’t have a key assigned. In general within the keyboardrc, after having it sorted, there are 4 regions overall: <Darktable>/global/*, <Darktable>/views/*, <Darktable>/modules/* and <Darktable>/image operations/*. I think, any configured shortcuts, are processed in that order. First check for global, than look at views and so on. In that file <Primary> is the Control key.

Since I’m very much at the beginning of my work with Darktable I’ve wanted the standard key bindings in a slightly better formatting than the Darktable manual. Therefore I created the following (this needs refinement in time to come).

• Global
• Image Operations
• History
• Image
• Filmstrip
• Light Table
• Darkroom
• Map
• Misc