Chapter 9. Command Reference

Opens a map file.

This is a shortcut to open recently opened maps. Clicking on this item opens a list to the side of the menu with several of the most recently opened files. Clicking on a specific file will open it in Marble - if the file still resides at the same location.

Displays the Get Hot New Stuff! dialog to download additional maps for Marble, among others maps for Mars and Venus.

Displays the Marble Map Theme Creation Wizard dialog to create a new map using Web Map Service data, your own image file or Open Street Map indexed tiles.

Displays the Download Region dialog to download map data in different zoom levels for offline usage. See Download Map Regions for details.

Exports a screenshot of Marble's map to an image file.

Prints a screenshot of Marble's map.

Opens a window that shows a preview of the printed map.

If this option is selected Marble will no longer download map data from the Internet. The search feature gets restricted to the local database. New routes cannot be retrieved.

Quits Marble.

Copies a screenshot of Marble's map to the global clipboard.

Copies the current coordinates to the global clipboard.

Allows you to open the current map in the external map editor. The current version supports Potlatch (in a web browser), Merkaartor and JOSM map editors.

Records a movie with Marble.

Stops the current recording of movie.

Toggle the display of the location page in the left panel. If a GPS device is connected with your computer, Marble displays longitude and latitude of your current location.

Toggle the display of a simple crosshair in the center of the map.

The currently visible part of the map is downloaded again and refreshed on the screen.

In this submenu you can to lock the position of the infoboxes and show or hide the plugins you have enabled in the Plugins page of Marbles configuration dialog.

The Wikipedia plugin displays georeferenced Wikipedia articles as an icon on the map. A click onto the icon launches a browser window that displays the referenced site. The data is provided through a webservice via GeoNames.org. Likewise a Photos plugin currently provides photos via the FlickR photo sharing site.

Show real-time cloud cover. A real-time cloud map that gets updated every 3 hours. It uses GOES, METEOSAT, and GMS satellite imagery downloaded from the Geostationary Satellite Imagery page at Dundee University. Credits: Hari Nair, Xplanet Project.

Show the diffuse reflection of the atmosphere around the Earth.

Show the star map as seen from the Solar System.

Displays the Sun Control where you can set the Sun Shading and center the map on subsolar point position.

Displays the Time Control dialog where you can set date and time and the simulation time speed.

Displays the list of the eclipses for the year chosen using View → Browse Eclipses... menu item.

This menu item will be shown only when Eclipses plugin is enabled.

Displays the Eclipse Browser dialog where you can set the year to show eclipses for, open plugin settings dialog, view data on eclipse start, end, type and magnitude. Choose some eclipse item from the list and press the Go To Selected Eclipse to view the location of the eclipse on the globe.

This menu item will be shown only when Eclipses plugin is enabled.

Open the Edit Bookmark dialog to manage a bookmark.

A check box for enable the bookmarks visualization on the map.

Set the current position as your house.

Open the Manage Bookmarks dialog to manage all bookmarks.

This submenu shows your default locations.

Toggle the display of the toolbar.

Toggle the display of the status bar.

Toggle the display of the Marble panels.

Switches between various sizes of Marble map area. You can choose one of the sizes that are suitable for capturing frames for screencast or keep Marble map area resizable (Default (resizable) item).

Switches between normal view and full screen view. In full screen view, the titlebar is hidden and the actual application window is resized to the entire screen.

Display the Marble configuration dialog.