# Preferences

Preferences are ways to customize Anjuta to suit your tastes. Activate Edit Preferences to bring up the preferences dialog. Some preferences are explained below.

## General

1. Project Directory is the path where you plan to put all your projects. The application wizard creates new projects in this directory only. The default project directory is ~/Projects and generally this is fine for most people.

2. User Info: Provide your name and email address here. These are not used to do software registration; rather, they are used to create ChangeLog entries and other text insertions.

## File Manager

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

2. File Filter: You can filter out some files 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.