Am Dienstag, 2. Februar 2016, 10:41:03 schrieb Robert William Hutton: > On 02/02/16 09:50, François Patte wrote: > > I have just installed darktable and, if I can open darktable from the > > application menu (xfce), I don't know how to cleanly quit it.... No > > button "quit" is available on the interface. > > Darktable relies on the window manager to display a close button on the > window decorations (the little cross button). What window manager are you > using? You could try Ctrl-q on the keyboard, or google tells me that > Alt-F4 is the close window keyboard shortcut for xfce. > > Doing this way, darktable does not warn if a file has been modified. > > When I reopen it, the last session is opened.... > > That's the way that darktable works. The basic idea is that you maintain a > library of your images, and then you can search through this using the > collect module in the top left. > > How to close everything before quitting and have darktable ready for a > > new session when I reopen it. > > If you don't want any state to be remembered by darktable, and have it open > freshly each time, you can start it with something like the following shell > script. Note that this throws away everything you do, including all your > image edits. These are normally stored in two places: the .xmp file for > each image, saved next to the raw file, and the database. So remove the > write_sidecar_files=FALSE switch if you want to save the xmp files, for > example, or the --configdir if you want to store your configuration, etc. > > > #!/bin/bash > # LevedevRI's startup file for darktable-dev > rm -Rf /tmp/darktable_tmp > mkdir -p /tmp/darktable_tmp > darktable --library /tmp/darktable_tmp/library.db \ > --configdir /tmp/darktable_tmp --cachedir /tmp/darktable_tmp \ > --tmpdir /tmp/darktable_tmp --conf write_sidecar_files=FALSE $*
I would suggest a slightly different command: darktable --library :memory: That way you keep all your settings/configurations and have sidecars so you can continue working on an image, but don't have anything in the library when starting up. > Regards, > > Rob Tobias
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