Quick bar
The quick bar, at the top of the window, contains action buttons and favorites. Click a button to run an action or a favorite to open its folder.
The quick bar is shown by default. Its favorites share data with sidebar Bookmarks, and its buttons run the same actions as their corresponding shortcuts.
The two halves of the bar
Out of the box, the left half of the bar is a row of quick buttons and the right half is your bookmarks.
| Section | Contents | Order |
|---|---|---|
| Quick buttons | Copy · Cut · Paste │ New Folder · Rename │ Undo · Refresh │ Delete to Trash | Adjustable; see Rearranging what is on the bar |
| Favorites | The bookmarks and bookmark folders at the top level of the tree | The bookmark tree, which you arrange in the sidebar's Bookmarks section |
While the two sections share one strip, a separator sits between them automatically. The factory buttons are grouped by separators too, and Delete to Trash comes after the last of them.
Hovering a quick button shows its name and the shortcut currently bound to it. A greyed-out button still shows that tooltip.
A greyed-out button means there is nothing for it to act on. With no file selected, Copy is grey and clicking it does nothing at all. Paste is the exception and stays clickable.
Using the buttons
Quick buttons act on the active tab in the focused pane. In a split window, click the target pane before clicking an action button.
Using the favorites
| How you click | What happens |
|---|---|
| Click a favorite | The current tab goes there |
| Middle-click / Ctrl+click | Opens in a new tab, leaving the current one where it is |
| Click a favorite folder | Opens its dropdown; click again to close it |
Inside a favorite folder's dropdown, subfolders open as submenus, so however deep the bookmark tree goes the bar stays one row. Entries in the dropdown take middle-click and Ctrl+click too.
Right-clicking a favorite or a favorite folder on the bar gives the same menu the sidebar does (Open, Open in New Tab, Rename, Copy Path, Tags; for a folder, New subfolder, Rename, Delete). It is how you rename a bookmark with the sidebar collapsed.
Dragging a folder from the file list onto the strip bookmarks it. Drop it on a favorite folder and it is filed inside that folder, with no need to go into the folder first and click the star.
Rearranging what is on the bar
Drag quick buttons to reorder them, including disabled buttons. Their positions are saved when you release them.
A favorite on the bar can be dragged to the following destinations:
| Where you drop it | What happens |
|---|---|
| Between favorites | Reorder favorites |
| A favorite folder beside it | Filed inside that folder |
| A pane | The whole pane highlights, and letting go opens it in a new tab in that pane |
| The Bookmarks component page or its tab in the sidebar strip | Drop on the Bookmarks tab to place it at the end of the top level, without switching pages first. For a position inside the page, first select Bookmarks: the middle of a folder row files it inside, and between two rows inserts it there. Hovering over a collapsed folder expands it; a highlight or insertion line marks the drop target |
Drag a favorite or favorites folder on the bar to reorder it or move it into another favorites folder. Entries in a dropdown can also be dragged; hovering over a destination folder expands it. The quick bar and sidebar bookmarks share one tree, so changes appear in both.
Dragging a quick button off the strip does nothing, and does not remove it. To remove one, right-click it and use Remove from quick bar, or delete it on the settings page.
Right-clicking a quick button also offers Customize quick bar…, which opens that settings page; right-clicking blank space on the bar goes to the same page.
Folding away what does not fit
When the bar runs out of room, the items that do not fit fold into the » at its right end; click it to open a panel. Favorites fold away first and quick buttons after. Favorites in the panel take middle-click and Ctrl+click as well, and neither of those closes the panel, so you can open several tabs in a row.
The bar is always one row; it never grows to two because of how much it holds.
Configuring it in Settings
The Layout category in Settings holds a Quick Bar page, which is also where Customize quick bar… on the bar takes you.
| Setting | Values |
|---|---|
| Show as | Off / One row (default, favorites and buttons share one strip) / Two rows (buttons on top, favorites below) |
| Show quick buttons | Turn it off and only the favorites are left |
| Quick button scale | 80% / 90% / 100% / 125% (default) / 150%, see The two scale steps |
| Show favorites | Turn it off and only the quick buttons are left |
| Favorites scale | The same five steps, also 125% by default |
| Button labels | Icon (default) / Icon + text / Text |
Below them are two lists. Buttons on the bar shows what the bar holds right now, each row ending in ↑, ↓ and ×; Available lists what else can go on it, each row ending in ＋. What is available covers every action, the custom commands you configured, plus a Separator and a Spring (pushes what follows to the right edge). Actions already on the bar are still listed here, greyed out.
Enter a keyword in Filter buttons… to filter the lists. If nothing matches, the page shows No button matches that.
Rows on this page cannot be dragged to reorder. Use the ↑ ↓ at the end of a row, or go and drag on the bar itself.
Reset buttons restores only the button list. It does not change Show as or Button labels. The button is disabled when the list already matches the defaults.
Disabling both Show quick buttons and Show favorites hides the bar. Enabling either restores the selected Show as mode. In Two rows mode, disabling one section leaves a single row.
The two scale steps
Quick button scale and Favorites scale independently set the sizes of buttons and favorites.
These two scales are applied in addition to Appearance → Scale & Language → UI Scale and affect only the quick bar.
Both default to 125%, with a bar height of 36 px. Setting both to 100% reduces the height to 30 px.
At 80% or 90%, the buttons become smaller, but the bar keeps enough height for the window controls.
The dropdown a favorite folder opens, and the » overflow panel, are menus: their row height follows the interface and neither of these two steps applies to them.
Turning the strip off
Set Show as to Off. With the bar gone, the menu and sidebar buttons in the top-left corner and the window controls in the top-right return to the tab bar's row, and the top of the window gives back whatever the band occupied — 36 px with the factory settings, and 30 px with both scale steps back at 100%.
Downgrading loses your quick bar customisation. Older versions do not recognise the quick bar's configuration lines: they ignore each one on read and drop it the next time the file is written. Go back to an older version and return, and the quick bar is back to the factory row; your bookmarks are unaffected.