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Miscellaneous UI Elements#

Preferences#

The "Edit > Preferences" menu provides a UI for some gsetting / dconf settings. The settings here are applied immediately if 'Apply' is clicked.

General Preferences#

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Units Preferences#

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Unit preferences should be instantly reflected in the UI when 'Apply' is clicked.

Favourite Places#

mwp maintains a list of favourite places, from "View > Centre on Location" menu item.

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The "Place" combo menu holds all places defined in ~/.config/mwp/places (see the configuration reference).

For convenience, clicking the 'Editor ...' button will load the "Places Editor".

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  • New items are added with the + button.

  • Locations can be edited clicking the "Document Edit" icon at the end of the row. placesedit

  • The context (right mouse button) menu:

    • Zoom to location : Zooms to the place
    • Set location from current view : Sets the location to the centre of the current map view
    • Delete location : Deletes the location without question.
  • OK Saves the locations to ~/.config/mwp/places
  • Closing using the window manager X icon closes without saving.

Useful Shortcuts#

  • Control-D : Enters distance measure mode. Click on the map to add more points to measure distance along a path. Press Control-D again to get the distance, with an option to continue to add points. The points may also be dragged.

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In the image, we are measuring the distance between the take off home (brown icon) and the landing home (orange icon); the distance markers are the black/white circles. Ctrl-D has been pressed a second time to display the result.

  • Control L : Control-Shift L : Copy the pointer location to the clip board (Ctrl-L, decimal degrees, Ctrl-Shift-L formatted).

Keyboard Shortcuts#

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Map and Tools#

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