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Advanced Settings / Developer Options / System Properties

Posted: 30 Jun 2016, 08:36

by rednoah

How do I set System Properties?

Your custom system properties are stored in the system.properties configuration file in the FileBot application data folder. You can create / modify the system.properties configuration file via

Advanced Settings in the Debug Console (open via the F5 keyboard shortcut) in the FileBot Desktop application or via the properties script on the command-line.

e.g. Set net.filebot.xattr.store in the FileBot Desktop application via F5 ➔

Application Data ➔

Advanced Settings:

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e.g. Set net.filebot.xattr.store in the FileBot Node web application via Tools ➔ System Properties:

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e.g. Set net.filebot.xattr.store via the filebot command-line tool:

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.xattr.store=.xattr

e.g. Unset net.filebot.xattr.store via the filebot command-line tool:

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.xattr.store=

e.g. Set net.filebot.xattr.store via the filebot command-line tool in a docker container:

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docker run --rm -it -v data:/data rednoah/filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.xattr.store=.xattr

General Options

Disable Windows file path validation on Unix platforms: unixfs = true | false

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filebot -script fn:properties --def unixfs=true

Configure parallelism level: parallelism = <min>..<max>

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filebot -script fn:properties --def parallelism=8..64

Configure main thread priority: priority = 1..10

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filebot -script fn:properties --def priority=1

User Interface Options

Configure Look and Feel: net.filebot.theme = Darcula | Nimbus | System

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.theme=Darcula

Configure Font: net.filebot.theme.font = <font family>

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.theme.font="Arial" net.filebot.theme.font.size="14"

Configure File Dialog implementation: net.filebot.UserFiles.fileChooser = Zenity | COM | Swing | AWT | JavaFX

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.UserFiles.fileChooser=Swing

Disable Windows Move / Copy Dialog (see IFileOperation) integration: useNativeShell = true | false

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filebot -script fn:properties --def useNativeShell=false

Configure Trash implementation: net.filebot.UserFiles.trash = System | JNA | XDG | Move | Hide | Delete

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.UserFiles.trash=Delete

System ... use Desktop.moveToTrash implementation
JNA ... use DefaultFileUtils.moveToTrash implementation
XDG ... use /usr/bin/trash or /usr/bin/gio trash system commands
Move ... atomically move files to a Trash folder located at {drive}/Trash for each mount point, drive or network share
Hide ... rename files by adding a . prefix to the file name
Delete ... just delete files

Logging Options

Enable debug logging: net.filebot.logging.debug = ALL | FINE | INFO

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.logging.debug=ALL

Enable color logging: net.filebot.logging.color = true | false

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.logging.color=true

Print timestamp for each log record: net.filebot.logging.time = true | false

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.logging.time=true

Network Options

Force IPv4 network connections: java.net.preferIPv4Stack = false | true

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filebot -script fn:properties --def java.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

Configure a HTTP / HTTPS proxy: connect via 127.0.0.1:7890

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filebot -script fn:properties --def http.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 http.proxyPort=7890 https.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 https.proxyPort=7890

Configure HTTP request retry limit and retry delay: try initial request, wait 2 minutes on failure, retry 2nd request, wait 8 minutes on failure, retry 3rd request

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.CachedResource.retryLimit=2 net.filebot.CachedResource.retryDelay=PT2M net.filebot.CachedResource.retryMultiplier=4

Java Options

Force UI scale factor: sun.java2d.uiScale = 1 | 2 | 4

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filebot -script fn:properties --def sun.java2d.uiScale=2

Enable Direct3D render pipeline: sun.java2d.d3d = true | false

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filebot -script fn:properties --def sun.java2d.d3d=true

Enable OpenGL render pipeline: sun.java2d.opengl = true | false

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filebot -script fn:properties --def sun.java2d.opengl=true

Java Environment Variables

Manually configure CPU and RAM resource limits for the java process:

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export JAVA_OPTS="-XX:ActiveProcessorCount=1 -Xmx512"
filebot -script fn:sysinfo