Basics - Light Alloy Guide

# Basics

Press this button to show preferences menu:

Windows you will contains settings, grouped by categories, and sometimes by tabs

## Search settings you need

All settings in preferences menu grouped by categories. In categories they can be also grouped by tabs. Related settings, usually, combined with common border or, at least, can be found near.

To help users easily and quickly determine, what some setting do, every not obvious setting have a hint, which contains detailed description of an option.

Besides that, all settings in preferences menu devided to three parts:

- common settings;
- expert settings (for fine tuning of common settings in most);
- hidden settings (here goes only rarely used or unstable options).

## Preferences menu view mode switch

You can switch between standard and expert menu view modes. To do it just press a button at menu window bottom "Menu View: switch to Standard / Expert mode".

You can see button everywhere, except Interface \ Skins tab, where this button replaced with another one - "run skin editor".
Pay attention: menu view switching save all changes that you made.