# Preferences

Preferences are ways to customize anjuta to suit your tastes. Activate Settings Preferences to bring up the preferences dialog. If you want to reset the preferences to their default values, it can be done from Settings Set Default Preferences. Some are explained below.

## General

1. Project Directory is the path where you plan to put all your projects. Application wizard creates new projects in this directory only. The default project directory is ~/Projects and generally, this is just fine for most people. Also, when Open project is activated, this is the base directory where the file selection will start.

2. User Info: Provide your correct Name and Email address here. They are not used to do software registration (pun), rather they are used to create ChangeLog entries and other insert text bits.

## File Manager

1. Root directory if no project is open is the path where the root of the file manager points to if no project is currently open.

2. File Filter: It is possible to filter out some file from the file tree, for example hidden files or files that are ignored by the version control system which usually means they are generated at build time and should not be changed.