# Settings

Open Settings with <KeyCombo keys={["⌘", ","]} /> (or <KeyCombo keys={["Ctrl", ","]} /> on Windows and Linux). Here are the ones people miss.

## Appearance

### Themes

Pane ships 27 themes in six families. Pick one in **Settings → Appearance → Theme**:

- **Standard**: Light (rounded), Light (sharp), Forge, Night Owl, Night Owl (OLED), Dusk, Dusk (OLED), Ember, Aurora, Terracotta, Dark (sharp), OLED Black (sharp)
- **Neon**: Synthwave, Acid Terminal, Tokyo Rain
- **Editorial**: Folio, Newsprint, Walnut
- **Retro**: Amber CRT, Teletype, Dot Matrix
- **Atmosphere**: Haar, Abyss, Understory
- **Accessibility**: Colorblind Safe, Low Fatigue, High Legibility

The accessibility themes are built for a reason, not just a look:

- **Colorblind Safe** uses status, diff and terminal colors you can read with any kind of color blindness.
- **Low Fatigue** is a warm, low-blue dark theme for long sessions.
- **High Legibility** is a light theme with extra-strong text contrast and clear focus rings.

Changing theme doesn't reset your terminals or make them jump.

### Follow the system, or pin one theme

Set **Appearance mode** to follow your OS. Pick a **Light palette** and a **Dark palette**, and Pane switches between them when your OS does. Or pin one theme and keep it.

### High contrast

Text in a CLI looking too dim? Turn on **High contrast**. It raises text and terminal contrast to AAA, on top of any theme.

### UI scale

**UI scale** sizes the whole app, from 0.8x to 1.5x: text, tabs, sidebar and chrome together.

### Sidebar rows

**Pane row layout** chooses how much shows for each pane in the sidebar: one line, or two lines with change counts and PR numbers.

## Terminal

In **Settings → Terminal**:

- **Font family**: pick a monospace font from the list, or type the name of any font you've installed. Nerd Font symbols still work.
- **Font size**: 10px to 24px. It's separate from UI scale.
- **Terminal power mode**: **Performance** keeps every terminal live. **Battery Saver** pauses drawing for terminals you aren't looking at. Restart Pane after changing it.
- **Terminal references**: the defaults for `@`, which pulls output from another terminal. Choose to paste the text or a file path, and how many lines.
- **Default shell** (Windows only): Git Bash, PowerShell 7, Windows PowerShell or Command Prompt.

Every terminal also has buttons in its top-right corner:

- **Upload files**: send files to the terminal's machine, handy on a remote host.
- **Refresh**: reload the terminal's view without closing it. Use it when a tab looks stuck.
- **Scroll to top** and **Scroll to bottom**. A **Jump to bottom** pill also shows up when you've scrolled up.

## General

- **Check for updates automatically**: Pane looks for a new release every 24 hours. You choose when to install it.
- **Start Pane when you log in.**
- **Keep computer awake while sessions are active**: stops your computer from going to sleep while agents are working. The screen can still turn off. Closing the lid still sleeps the machine.
- **Send feedback**: report a bug or ask for a feature. Pane files it as a public GitHub issue with your GitHub CLI account.

## Privacy

Product analytics are on by default. Pane records which features you use, and may tie that to your GitHub username or git email if it can find them on your machine. It never collects prompts, code or file paths.

Turn it off in **Settings → Privacy → Allow product analytics**. See [Security & Permissions](/docs/security#telemetry) for details.

## Advanced

- **Verbose logging**: writes detailed logs for troubleshooting.
- **Journey timings**: shows how long common actions take, over the last 200 runs. It never leaves your machine.
- **Use isolated PTY host**: runs terminals in a separate process so a crash can't take down the app. It's on by default on Windows. Restart Pane after changing it.
- **Additional PATH directories**: add folders where your agents live if Pane can't find them.

## Other settings

These have their own pages:

- **Usage & Limits**: [Usage & Limits](/docs/usage)
- **AI & Agents**, including Pane's MCP server: [MCP](/docs/mcp)
- **Worktrees & Git**, including worktree file sync and commit attribution: [Git](/docs/git) and [Configuration](/docs/configuration#worktree-file-sync)
- **Shortcuts** and snippet hotkeys: [Keyboard Shortcuts](/docs/keyboard-shortcuts)
- **Remote Access**: connect under **Your computers**, or choose **Add with a Code**. Under **Access to this computer**, copy **Address** to find this computer from the native phone app, and set **Who can connect** and an optional **Password**. **Only me** is the default and passwords are off by default. **Connection codes** has **Set Up Host**, **Advanced**, and **Docs** for browsers and other accounts. See [Remote Pane](/docs/remote-daemon).