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Preferences > Advanced Preferences
Setting Preference directly. Use with caution!
The Advanced Peferences register shows all raw settings and allows to manipulate them. It is visible in expert mode only.
Most settings can easily and safely be modified via the other registers of this dialog box. Normally you should not need to use this register. Do so with caution. Invalid settings can cause errors and/or loss of data. Some setting changes need a restart to work. Unlike the other registers there is no warning about it. You may be instructed to edit here in order to access experimental features. See more about user settings in the Preferences Overwiew.
Search
Use the Search field to quickly access values and keys grouped by namespace.
List colors
- Bold on yellow - value has changed at least once.
- Bold on green - value was changed in this dialog.
- Normal on green - value was reset to default in this dialog.
After a restart of JOSM all preference settings which are equal to their default values loose any list colors.
Buttons
- Add
- To add keys with simple values and with a XML structure.
- Edit
- To edit one marked key/value pair.
- Reset
- Sets all marked key/value pairs to their default value.
- Read from file
- Imports a JOSM custom configuration XML file.
That can contain preferences modifications, commands to download some files or plugins and even JavaScript code.
After a file import is complete, you can see a detailed log and the changed preferences will be represented. You can reject these changes by pressing Cancel button. Caution: You can not undo reject file or plugin operations (download, delete, etc.), so be careful and do not open scripts from untrusted sources!
- Export selected items
- Generates a custom configuration XML file automatically. When reading this file, the key-value pairs will replace existing ones or be appended to them (in case of properties containing lists or maps). You can use it together with the Search field to find all preferences you need to backup or share.
- More…
- launches a popup menu with additional actions:
- Save ... profile - saves part of preferences related to shortcuts, colors, toolbar and imagery to a separate custom configuration XML files.
- Load profile - replace existing part of preferences with previously saved fragment (for example, reset all shortcuts to default and then load them from file). User should press OK to confirm changes.
- Reset preferences - reset all preferences by deleting the preferences.xml file. See Reset preferences also.
Explanation
The table below contains settings not accessible in the other tabs of the Preferences dialog (incomplete list):
Key | Values | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|
$panel.buttonhiding
| DYNAMIC, ALWAYS_HIDDEN or ALWAYS_SHOWN | DYNAMIC | See JOSM interface customization |
$panel.minimized
| true or false | false | See JOSM interface customization |
$panel.docked
| true or false | true | if a window is in the side pane or floating |
$panel.lastHeight
| integer | mixed | is used to store the last used height of a panel |
$panel.preferredHeight
| integer | mixed | can be used to overwrite the hard coded preferred height of a panel |
$dialogname.geometry
| x=*,y=*,width=*,height=* | Size and position of dialog boxes | |
$widget.always-visible
| true or false | true | if TAB toggles this screen widget |
validator.* overlapping-ways.*
| mixed | mixed | See validator preferences |
draw.anglesnap.* and probably keys starting with color.draw.angle.snap
| mixed | mixed | should be explained at Draw |
edit.initial-move-threshold
| pixels | See Select | |
edit.initial-move-delay
| ms | See Select | |
message.movedManyElements
| true or false | unset | Decision of "do not ask again" message after moving many objects. |
draw.fullscreen
| true or false | false | See Fullscreen view |
navigation.always-visible
| true or false | true | Hide on-screen zoom control and current scale and Toggle Dialogs are hidden (since r18755) |
zoom.undo.delay zoom.undo.max
| See Zoom to previous | ||
relation.editor.presets.visible?
| true or false | true | If set to true, displays the list of presets matching the current tags in the relation editor. |
properties.presets.visible
| true or false | true | See Tags/Membership panel |
properties.presets.top
| true or false | true | See Tags/Membership panel |
url.openstreetmap-wiki
| https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ | See Tags/Membership panel | |
selectaction.cycles.multiple.matches
| true or false | false | See Help/Action/Select#Selectsingle |
osm.notes.daysClosed
| -1, 0 or positive integer | 7 | See Notes panel, available in OSM Server preferences |
osm.notes.downloadLimit
| from ... to 10000 | 1000 | See Notes panel |
latlon.dms.decimal-format latlon.dm.decimal-format statusbar.decimal-format
| See StatusBar | ||
statusbar.distance-threshold
| See StatusBar | ||
override.numbering.format
| true or false | true | disable/enable overriding of number format. So far only Arabic languages and Khmer are supported, see #18856. (since r16111) |
simplify-way.max-error
| integer, meters | 3 | See Simplify Way |
message.way.split.segment-selection-dialog
| true or false | false | See Split Way |
mappaint.wireframe.use-antialiasing
| true or false | false | See Wireframe view, available in the OSM Data preferences |
merge-nodes.mode
| 0 or 1 or 2 | 0 | See Merge Nodes |
upload.comment.max-age
| integer | 4*3600*1000 | See Changeset |
upload.show.review.request
| true or false | true | displays the "I want someone to review my edits." check box in the upload dialog |
upload.show.automatic.source
| true or false | true | displays the "Automatically obtain source from current layers" check box in the upload dialog |
mappaint.fillalpha , mappaint.showicons and couple others
| See Styles | ||
browser.unix
| ["xdg-open", "#DESKTOP#", "$BROWSER", "gnome-open", "kfmclient openURL", "firefox"] | sets another external browser than the default browser to open external links on unix os | |
browser.windows
| sets another external browser than the default browser to open external links on windows os (use the browser executable) | ||
osm-primitives.localize-name
| true or false | false | See Display preferences |
osm-primitives.showcoor
| true or false | false | See Display preferences |
osm-primitives.showid
| true or false | false | See Display preferences |
osm-primitives.showid.new-primitives
| true or false | false | Instead of id:0 , displays the internal negative id for new objects beside the object in lists
|
osm-primitives.showversion
| true or false | false | See Display preferences |
propertiesdialog.autoresizeTagsTable
| true or false | false | Enables automatic column width of the tags table to fit content, see #14666 |
zoom.scale-follow-native-resolution-at-load
| true or false | true | true means "Scale follows native resolution of layer" is enabled when layer is created
|
properties.autocomplete-keys
| true or false | true | true means autocomplete keys by default in the add tag dialog
|
properties.autocomplete-values
| true or false | true | true means autocomplete values by default in the add tag dialog
|
imagery.generic.popupmenu
| true or false | true | false disables the imagery context menu in the mapview
|
gui.start.animation
| true or false | true | false disables the animation while displaying the Startup page
|
jcs.cache.use_image_resource_cache
| true or false | false | true enables caching rendered SVG images using JCS (since r17364)
|
osm.download.threads
| integer | 2 | Maximum parallel download threads downloading OSM data objects |
socket.maxredirects
| integer | 5 | Maximum of allowed redirects |
socket.timeout.connect
| integer | 15 | Maximum interval to wait for a connection with server |
socket.timeout.read
| integer | 30 | Maximum interval to wait for an answer from server |
autosave.deletedLayersBackupCount
| integer | 5 | |
autosave.enabled
| true or false | true | See File backup |
autosave.extension
| osm | File extension to use for data layers when auto saving | |
autosave.filesPerLayer
| integer | 1 | See File backup |
autosave.index-limit
| integer | 1000 | |
autosave.interval
| integer | 300 | See File backup |
autosave.notification
| true or false | false | See File backup |
multipoly.alltags
| true or false | false | See Create Multipolygon |
multipoly.lineartagstokeep
| key list | [barrier,fence_type,source] | See Create Multipolygon |
multipoly.movetags
| true or false | true | See Create Multipolygon |
multipoly.show-relation-editor
| true or false | false | See Create Multipolygon |
$dialogname is short for a dialog name
$panel is short for changesetdialog, commandstack, conflict, filter, layerlist, mapstyle, notes/note_open, propertiesdialog, relationlist, selectionlist, userlist or validator
$widget is short for menu, sidetoolbar, statusbar or toolbar
Details
The list of preferences is build like this:
- Not all possible available keys are listed at the beginning.
- Whenever JOSM internally requests a particular setting, it remembers and lists the key and the default value.
- A setting is only saved in the preference file if the value is different from the default.
- However, if you already know the key, you can still set it explicitly.
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