Settings and shortcuts

Open the settings

Click in the header or press Ctrl+,. The menu lists Account, Profiles, LLM, Language and Advanced; Advanced holds Audio, Appearance, Shortcuts, Updates, Chat history and Privacy & permissions. Leaving with unsaved changes asks first, on the card You have unsaved changes: Back to Settings keeps you there, Discard drops the changes and Save keeps them. At the bottom of the menu, (tooltip "Save", with its keys) keeps your changes and beside it (tooltip "Discard changes") drops them. Language and Appearance are described below. Profiles, Audio, the screenshot settings, Chat history, Privacy & permissions and the plans in Account are explained on the pages for what they do: Your profiles, Listening, In screenshots and screen sharing, Rewind, summary and history, Install and sign in and Plans and credits.

Interface and call language

Settings, then LanguageSettings›Language holds every language setting. In its Interface section, Interface language is the language of the app's own words: English, Українська, Русский, Deutsch, Español, Français, 日本語, Polski, Svenska, 简体中文, 한국어 or Português. Same as the system (the default) follows your system's language when it is one of these, else English. It changes as soon as you save, with no restart, and a call keeps going; the plan cards follow the next time you open the settings.

In the Call section, Call language is the language the call is heard in and the hints are written in: English by default, or Automatic where the app can detect it; see Languages. Quick-switch language (None by default) shows only while Call language is a language you picked: the Switch language key, Ctrl+Alt+K unless you changed it, toggles speech recognition and the hints between the two until you quit; see A second language. Its note names the key, and Change the key in it opens Shortcuts. While Call language is Automatic, an info box right under it says where Automatic stands. Where it is offered: Automatic detects the call's language with the app's speech, hosted or on this computer, and answers from the hosted model. Where it is not, why: a speech service with your own key, or answers from your own provider, with a link to the Speech-to-text or LLM settings and a word that such a service may not support every language; otherwise, that Automatic needs the app's speech and answers from the hosted model.

Opacity and position

Settings, then Advanced, then AppearanceSettings›Advanced›Appearance opens on Visibility: how see-through the window, its text and its images are. The four sliders show their effect at once while you move them, and only Save keeps it. at the right of the Visibility title (tooltip "Reset visibility to defaults (80 / 70 / 100 / 85 %)") puts the four back; it works only while one of them differs from its default.

The last row of Visibility, In screenshots and screen sharing (on Linux, Hide the Linux screen-capture notice), and the Screenshots section under it are described in In screenshots and screen sharing. The Window section comes last. Position is Centre (the default) or Last position, where you left the window; some desktops place windows themselves, and then it does nothing. Open on, under it, picks the monitor the window opens on (the main monitor by default); it applies only with Centre, so it is hidden while Position is Last position. Both apply at the next start.

Updates

Settings, then Advanced, then UpdatesSettings›Advanced›Updates shows the Version you run, to quote in a support request. By default the app looks for a new version when it starts; every download is checked against the release's signed manifest. See An update is needed for the prompts.

Keyboard shortcuts

The Ctrl+Alt shortcuts work from anywhere, even while the window is hidden or another app is focused. On macOS, use Control+Option instead of Ctrl+Alt, and Command instead of the other Ctrl keys. These are the defaults; in the header shows them in the window:

The italic notes under the list name limits that come from the system, not the app: see Known limits.

The window moves are left out under native Wayland, whose compositor places the window. On macOS with VoiceOver on, Control+Option is VoiceOver's key: rebind them in Settings, then Advanced, then ShortcutsSettings›Advanced›Shortcuts. The shortcuts pause while a window that runs as administrator, such as Task Manager, has focus: see Known limits.

Change a shortcut

In Settings, then Advanced, then ShortcutsSettings›Advanced›Shortcuts, click a field and press the new keys. A shortcut needs Ctrl, Alt or Cmd, or a function key. Backspace unbinds a shortcut and Esc cancels the change. inside the end of a field (tooltip "Reset") restores that shortcut, and at the right of the title (tooltip "Restore all default shortcuts") restores all of them. A change applies as soon as you save. Ctrl+Q with the window focused, and the close button, always quit and cannot be changed.

On Windows, with many European keyboard layouts, AltGr counts as Ctrl+Alt, so typing a character such as @ can trigger a shortcut; pick keys your layout does not use with AltGr. On Linux the shortcuts are physical keys, and AltGr never counts as Ctrl+Alt. On Linux, the shortcuts need your user in the input group; see Troubleshooting.