Hotkey and settings
Change the shortcut that opens Sightline and the preferences it remembers.
Change the hotkey
On the Settings page, click the button next to Open / close Sightline, which shows the current shortcut, and press the new combination. It works immediately and is remembered. Press Esc to cancel.
The default is Control plus Shift plus MCtrl+Shift+M.
If you pick a key without modifiers, such as Insert, that key is reserved for Sightline and the game never receives it.
Back to one screen
To play on a single screen again, for example away from your monitors, open the Settings page. Multimon mode shows On; click Turn off... next to it. Then choose:
- Turn off and restart: the game saves your progress, closes, and Steam starts it again on one screen.
- Turn off and close the game: the game saves your progress and closes. It starts on one screen the next time you open it.
Your views stay in multimon_config.sii. When you want them back, open Sightline and click Turn on multimon mode: the layout returns exactly as you last saved it.
Other settings
| Setting | Page | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Show the views | Settings | Outline the views on the game screen |
| Screens side by side | Settings | Physical screens in an Eyefinity or Surround group (1 to 6) |
| Copies to keep | Backups | How many copies of your file to keep, one per Save (1 to 100) |
settings.ini
Sightline remembers its preferences in Documents\<game>\.sightline\settings.ini. You never need to open it, but you can edit it by hand (the link at the bottom of the Settings page shows it in Explorer); it starts with a short explanation of each line.
hotkey=Ctrl+Shift+M
max_backups=7
screens_across=1
show_views=1
| Line | Meaning |
|---|---|
hotkey | The shortcut that opens and closes the window |
max_backups | Copies of multimon_config.sii to keep (1 to 100, default 7) |
screens_across | Physical screens side by side, for Eyefinity or Surround (1 to 6) |
show_views | Outline the views on the screen (1 on, 0 off) |
Keys you can use
Up to three modifiers, Ctrl, Shift and Alt, followed by one key:
- letters
AtoZand digits0to9 F1toF24Insert,Delete,Home,End,PageUp,PageDown,Pause,ScrollLockNumpad0toNumpad9
Examples: Ctrl+Shift+M, Alt+F10, Ctrl+Numpad5. Upper or lower case and spaces do not matter.
Edit the file with the game closed. If a hotkey cannot be read, Sightline uses the default and shows a message in the window, but keeps what you wrote so you can fix it.