The keys preset
Vixlo ships three keyboards, Vixlo, Lightroom and Photo Mechanic, and the one you cull with is called the keys preset. It is not in the Settings window but on the Keyboard sheet; this page says where that is and how your choice relates to the Your keys line in the Account section.
Where the preset is
Choose Vixlo ▸ Keyboard… in the menu bar. It is in the same group of the Vixlo menu as Settings… and Models…, and it has no shortcut of its own.
The sheet is headed Keyboard, and the three preset cards are at its top, under Presets. It opens over a library, on the cull page or on the edit page, and it opens from the launch screen with no library open at all, because the keys are yours rather than a library's. The menu item is greyed out while another sheet is open and while the photograph is full screen or the gallery is playing; leave those first.
There is a second door on the cull page. Open Your keys, the keyboard button at the foot of the side panel's rail (or tap ?), and press Change them: Vixlo ▸ Keyboard… at the foot of the panel.
The sheet belongs to the library window, or to the launch screen, not to Settings. If you chose it with Settings in front and cannot see it, click the library window.
Choosing a preset
- Open the sheet.
- Click one of the three cards. The card lights, and a line in orange above the list says whose keyboard you have now, for example The Lightroom keyboard: Adobe’s own flag keys — P pick, X reject, U unflag.
- Click Done, or press
Esc.
There is nothing to save and nothing to relaunch. The menu bar, the decision buttons on the pass line, Your keys and the held map all show the new keys.
The three keyboards differ only in Take and Reject, and in Additional Take, which is always ⇧ plus Take:
| Preset | Take | Reject |
|---|---|---|
| Vixlo | T | R |
| Lightroom | P | X |
| Photo Mechanic | T | X |
Hold is H in all three, and every other key is the same. The three presets has each card's caption and the rest of the comparison.
A preset replaces the whole keyboard, including any key you changed by hand. Change one key yourself and the map is nobody's preset: the three cards go plain and the sheet says Your own keys — no preset matches this map. Clicking a card brings that whole keyboard back. Reset to defaults, at the foot of the sheet, does the same for the Vixlo keyboard. Changing a key covers changing one key.
Where your choice is kept
Like the Settings window, the sheet saves as you go. Your keys are kept in one file of their own, ~/Library/Application Support/Vixlo/Keyboard/keymap.json, which is written the first time you choose a preset or change a key. Until then there is no file and the Vixlo keyboard is in use. The sheet puts the idea this way: These keys are yours, not the library's — they are stored once for you, and every library you open uses them.
The keys are not part of your account either. Signing in or out does not change them.
The keys saved under Cloud providers in Settings are API keys, a different thing from these keyboard keys; see Cloud providers and their keys.
The answer from your account
The Account section of Settings repeats three answers from the website under Your answers, and one of them is Your keys, which reads Vixlo, Lightroom or Photo Mechanic. The line under the answers says Answered on your account page, and read here. Change them there. That row only shows what you answered. It does not set the keyboard, and changing the answer on the account page does not change it either. See The Account section.
Vixlo 0.1 does not apply the Your keys answer. A Mac where nobody has chosen a preset or changed a key uses the Vixlo keyboard, whatever you answered on the website, and it stays on that until you change it on the Keyboard sheet yourself. If you answered Lightroom or Photo Mechanic, open Vixlo ▸ Keyboard… once and click that card.
If you choose Vixlo ▸ Keyboard… while the sign-in card is covering an open library, the sheet opens underneath the card, out of sight. Sign in first, and the sheet is there; Done closes it.