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Preferences > Advanced Preferences

source:trunk/resources/images/preferences/advanced.svg 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.

Use the Search field to quickly access values and keys grouped by namespace.

List colors

  1. Bold on yellow - value has changed at least once.
  2. Bold on green - value was changed in this dialog.
  3. 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.

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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.
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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 source:trunk/resources/images/layer/osmdata_small.svg 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 source:trunk/resources/images/multipoly_create.svg Create Multipolygon
multipoly.lineartagstokeep key list [barrier,fence_type,source] See source:trunk/resources/images/multipoly_create.svg Create Multipolygon
multipoly.movetags true or false true See source:trunk/resources/images/multipoly_create.svg Create Multipolygon
multipoly.show-relation-editor true or false false See source:trunk/resources/images/multipoly_create.svg 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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