Settings
Open Settings from the gear in the left column, or from Ctrl K. The top of the window shows the version and, during the beta, how many days are left. Settings marked “restart” take effect the next time Warpstead starts.
Appearance
- Theme: dark or light, at once.
- Interface size: 85, 100, 115 or 130%. It changes the buttons and panels, not the canvas, and this is the only place to change it: Ctrl + wheel zooms the canvas only.
- Language: English or Italiano (restart).
Windows and screens
- Fullscreen and Always on top for Warpstead’s own window (restart).
- With two or more screens plugged in, Use two screens and the screen map: on, the map picks the home screen; off, it picks Warpstead’s screen. It applies right away, and a program in full screen comes out of it first. See Two screens.
Engines
- AI engine: install or remove the local AI, and reclassify your apps. See Local AI.
- Clean up and Upscale: the models of the two nodes, downloaded or not, to remove or to add your own. See Pipelines.
Search
- The folders that Alt Space indexes, and the ones it skips. See Search.
Advanced
- Thumbnail cache: Clear cache empties the stored thumbnails and file icons; they’re made again as you browse.
- After a crash: Restart Warpstead after a crash, on or off.
Help
- Hold F1: labels appear on every part of the screen, with a legend of the gestures that have no button. Let go and they disappear. The ? in the left column keeps them on screen until you click it again or press Esc. Inside a program that has the keyboard, F1 goes to the program, as it should.
- Hints: now and then a short hint appears where it’s useful (“Search files with Alt+Space”, “Drag an edge to resize”). Each one goes away for good once you’ve done what it says.
- Keyboard shortcuts: ? or Ctrl / opens the list. All of them are also in Keyboard and mouse.
- This manual: Open the manual, in the band at the bottom of the legend (the one the ? keeps open), and Manual at the bottom of the shortcuts list open it in a Web node on the canvas.
Screenshots
Ctrl Shift S, or the Screenshot button at the top right. Drag to capture an area, or press Enter for the whole screen. The picture is saved as a PNG in your Screenshots folder (Pictures\Screenshots, where Windows puts its own) and copied to the clipboard, so it also appears in the Clipboard node.
Reporting a problem
Reports live in Settings → Report, the last tab. Ctrl K → Report a problem and the help map take you there too.
The moment matters more than the description. As soon as something odd happens, a drop-down that won’t open, a window that slips behind the canvas, press Ctrl Shift S. Besides taking a screenshot, Warpstead marks that instant in its log and takes a snapshot of the windows of the programs in your nodes: the class, position and owner of each window, never its title. It works inside a program in full screen too. If you don’t need the screenshot, press Esc on the selection and the moment stays marked. If you forget the keys, the bug next to the clock, at the top right, marks the moment without a screenshot.
Then carry on working. When you have time, open the Report tab, pick the moment from the list (the latest is already picked), write what happened and press Send. Warpstead keeps the last 20 moments, for three days.
The report comes with a package: Warpstead’s full logs, including the names of files and folders open in your nodes, Windows crash and hang reports from the last three days, a description of the PC (screens, graphics card and driver, settings) and the window snapshot from that moment. Your user name and PC name are removed. Show, next to the size, lists every file. The screenshot only goes if you tick Attach the screenshot from that moment. It’s off by default, because it can show your documents or your clients’.
Nothing is sent until you press Send. On a slow connection you see the progress, and if sending stops halfway, Try again picks up with the same package. You get a reference code at the end: quote it if you write to us.
After a crash, Warpstead offers to send a report the next time it starts. The same tab opens, with the log of the session the crash closed, and it’s still up to you.
Founder price
During the beta, Warpstead asks you whether you want to register this PC for the founder price. Press Register this PC and leave your email: we send you a confirmation, and once you confirm, the price is kept for you when version 1.0 comes out. The first 100 people who register get their license free. Nothing is sent until you press the button. What is sent and how long we keep it is in the privacy policy.
You can also do it later from Settings, with Keep the founder price next to the version number, and change the email from there.