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Settings, menu bar and startup

Settings​

Click Settings at the bottom of the sidebar, or press ⌘, (Ctrl+, on Windows and Linux). Settings, the window size and its position are remembered between runs. Reset to defaults puts everything back.

Appearance​

  • Theme: Light (the default), Dark, or System to follow your operating system.
  • Density: Comfortable shows two lines per row; Compact fits about twice as many rows on screen.
  • Interface size: 90% to 125%.

Notifications​

When a container crashes or runs out of memory while Ferrodock is in the background (or hidden in the menu bar), you get a system notification. On by default.

Startup​

  • Start the Docker engine when Ferrodock opens, if it isn't running (on by default). See When Docker isn't running.
  • Open Ferrodock when you log in. On macOS and Windows it then starts in the menu bar / notification area, without opening the window.

Menu bar / Notification area​

Keep running there when the window is closed (macOS and Windows). Turn it off to quit when you close the window.

Updates​

Check for updates when Ferrodock starts, and Check now. See Updates and releases.

About​

The version you run, and links to the website, GitHub and Report a problem.

On macOS, Ferrodock puts an icon in the menu bar showing how many containers are running; on Windows it's in the notification area. Its menu follows the sidebar:

  • Open Ferrodock, and whether Docker is running.
  • Containers: each container (running ones first, ● running, ○ stopped) with Start, Stop, Restart and Show in Ferrodock.
  • Compose: each project with Start all / Stop all.
  • Images, Volumes and Networks: each lists its items. Click one to open it in Ferrodock.
  • Quick start: lists the services. Click one to run it right away with its defaults. Customize… opens the Quick start page.
  • Quit Ferrodock.

Closing the window keeps Ferrodock running there, so the icon stays; Quit Ferrodock in its menu really quits. On Linux there's no icon yet, so closing the window quits.

Launch at login​

Open Ferrodock when you log in (in Settings → Startup) works on every platform: a login item on macOS, a startup entry on Windows, and an autostart entry on Linux. Turn it off in the same place.