Quick way to reset tool settings to default?

[richaardvark]

Hello I am very impressed and happy with Krita so far! I just have one small issue which is frustrating me. Is there any way to revert tool settings (specifically the Contiguous Selection Tool) back to their defaults? As I’m learning to use Krita and as I’m becoming familiar with the various tools, I have been playing with each one and keep finding that I change the settings too far to where the tool no longer is functioning as it originally did by default and despite my best attempts to return the settings to default, I am unable to do so by hand (because I don’t remember what the default values were) and now I spend ten minutes going back and forth tinkering with the tool settings every time I use it and I’m just frustrated. I’ve tried closing the program and opening it again but the settings are still not the defaults. I read that there is a user settings file somewhere that can be deleted and that will cause Krita to revert to default, but I can’t stop what I’m doing every time I’m using a tool to close the program, delete a file, and re-open the program. Is there any way to click a simple button inside the settings for each tool and simply revert the settings back to their default values? I really need this feature

Thank you for your help!

Edit: Oh! I did find ‘Settings’ → ‘Reset Krita Configurations’ which does in fact reset the tool settings (hooray!) but I still have to close and open the program every time, and it also unfortunately reset all of the UI/display layout customizations I had made (I’m using a small tablet right now to run Krita and have very limited desktop real estate available to work with and had to close/hide a lot of the default layout items). How can I reset the tool settings to default without reverting the layout I’ve modified to work best for me every single time?

[AhabGreybeard]

Hello and welcome to the forum

What you’d like to do is possible but involves restoring the main config file to a previously saved know state by OS level file manipulation, after you’ve Quit krita, then you’d restart krita to load the known state.

The file is called ‘kritarc’ and it’s in the
C:\Users\{your username}\AppData\Local folder.

Wouldn’t it be better to learn what the options and sliders of the Contiguous Selection Tool do and how they are used?

Also, if you’ve set up a particular arrangement of dockers to suit your screen and working needs, you can save that arrangement as a named ‘Workspace’ and then reload it at a later time, whenever you want to use it. You can have many different arrangements saved as different named workspaces.
If you do Window → Workspace you’ll see a list of the existing ones and an option for making a new one.

[Lynx3d]

I don’t think there is currently a way to reset just a single tool’s settings from within krita.

As said you can directly reset it by editing kritarc (while krita is not running), for the Contiguous Selection Tool for example search for the section [KisToolSelectContiguous] and remove all the lines belonging to it, then it will use the default on next start again.

There is currently a WIP merge request to implement tool presets so you don’t have to remember each setting individually, but it won’t make it to 5.0 I’m afraid, there’s still a bunch of details to work out.