zoomable lighttable

The zoomable lighttable mode provides a different way to navigate large collections of images.

🔗controls

zoom

Scroll with the mouse wheel to zoom in and out of the lighttable (compared to Ctrl+scroll in filemanager mode).

Zooming the thumbnails does not change the number of thumbnails per row, so the lighttable can exceed the visible area on all sides.

navigate

Hold down the left mouse button to drag the images around on the lighttable to navigate through your collection.

select

As with the filemanager mode, you can select the image under the pointer by clicking on its thumbnail or by pressing Enter. A range of images can be selected by clicking on the first image and then Shift+clicking on the last one. Images can be added or removed from a selection by Ctrl+clicking on their thumbnails or by pressing Spacebar.

Hint: you may find that the images are slow to load when zooming quickly through a large collection. One way to speed up the navigation is to generate a cache containing all the thumbnails using the darktable-generate-cache command.