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Settings¶

The settings menu in workbench can be used to change your personal user defaults and modify some of the functionality of workbench.

General¶

Facility and Default Instrument: These settings control the default settings used for Mantid interfaces that require a facility or instrument. This can be set outside of settings by changing the instrument in other interfaces, such as Muon Analysis 2.
Workspaces: This controls the visibility of workspaces whose names begin with __.
Confirmations and Notifications: These settings enable and disable confirmation boxes to save scripts and projects and error notifications.
Project Recovery: These settings enable project recovery in case of a crash (recommended).
Main Font: Edit the font type and size used for all of Workbench, except for the script editor and messages box.
Layouts: You can save and load layouts from this area. Save layout will save the current arrangement of widgets in the main window that can be loaded using load layout.

General: Choose whether to plot workspaces normalised by their bin width, whether to show their title, and whether to show minor ticks and gridlines.
Axes: Should the Axes on plots be linear or logarithmic?
Line: Choose a line style and width.
Marker: Choose a default marker for plots, such as ‘point’.
Error Bars: Control the error bars, such as by setting Capsize > 0, or displaying the Error Every 5 data points.
Legend: Set the default location for legends in plots.
Images: Set the default colormap for image plots.

There are even a few Fitting options you can set, such as your Default peak / background function.