Settings

How to open the settings?

You can open settings on Xplorer by clicking the `Settings` button on the left down of Xplorer.

How to exit from the settings?

You can exit from settings on Xplorer by clicking the Arrow Up button on the upside left of Xplorer.

App Theme

You can change Xplorer's app theme on the Appearance tab of the Settings. Available default themes are light, light+, dark, and dark+. Besides, there is a System Default theme that will automatically read your system preference.

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Xplorer will support a custom app theme soon, stay tuned!

Acrylic Effect

The Acrylic Effect is the effect that gives the transparency effect on the sidebar. Only works on Windows 10 and higher.

File Preview

The file preview here means the preview that replaces the default icon of a file.

Play video file as a preview

This will automatically play the video file as a preview.

THIS MIGHT CONSUME HIGH AMOUNT OF RAM

This might consume a high amount of RAM because it's built on the HTML video player. You can just enable this setting and ignore this caution if you got a good-spec computer.

Extract EXE file icon and make it a preview

This will parse and cache the icon from a exe file and make it a preview. Only on Windows.

This might causes Xplorer crashes.

This is because Xplorer parse the icon from the exe and if the hexadecimal of the exe file broken, Xplorer crashes.

Way to fix it: disable this setting

Default file layout

Default file layout of a directory. Just give it a try :)

App Language

Localize Xplorer. Help us translate Xplorer here.

Hide Hidden Files

Hide hidden files on Xplorer, you can find this setting on the Preference tab on Xplorer or by its shortcut, Ctrl + H.

Hide System Files

Hide Windows' system files on Xplorer.

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Learn what is system file here. Just turn it off if you don't understand what it is.

List and sort directories alongside files

If disabled, Xplorer will prioritize directories above files.