Settings & customization

Make Deska look the way you like. Choose a theme: follow your System preference, the default Dark warm or a cooler Dark cold, the one light option Light subtle, or a named look like Dracula, Cyber wave, Pink city or Adeberry. Pick an accent color for highlights and focus rings — Azure, Cyan, Teal, Iris, Pink, Amber or Rose, each tuned so it stays legible on whichever theme you chose. Set the canvas grid style to dots, lines or none, and adjust the sidebar background opacity.

• Editor — font size, tab width, and format-on-save.
• Terminal — the shell to launch (on Windows, choose PowerShell, Command Prompt or Git Bash), a custom shell path, font overrides, scrollback size, optional auto-suspend of idle background terminals, and the smart action bar toggle.
• Browser — your homepage, default search engine, and how links printed in a terminal should open (off, automatic, or ask).

Canvas & Workspace controls the feel of the canvas: the minimap, zoom speed, auto-focusing the largest visible panel, default panel sizes, hover quick-actions, rotating snapshots and a time scrubber to step through them, and whether to seed starter panels when you open a new folder.

Vibe adds optional ambience — soft tints and gentle motion, a time-of-day hue, a live status pill in the title bar, and workspace color tints.

Rebind any action to a chord of your choosing. See the keyboard shortcuts reference for the full default list and the rules around reserved chords and automatic conflict-swapping.

On a Lifetime license you can store your own provider keys here — Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, Groq, Google Gemini and OpenRouter — to run AI on your own account. Keys are kept in your operating system’s secure storage where available. This section is hidden on Free and subscription plans, which use managed Deska AI instead. See Agents and Plans & credits.

Account is where you sign in or out, see your current plan and remaining credits, and jump to billing. It is also home to Remote Access — the toggle that lets you reach this computer from the companion app on the web or your phone. Turn it on and sign into the companion with the same account — this computer appears there automatically; remote access is rolling out gradually, so the toggle appears as it becomes available to you.

• General — warn before quitting, show the file explorer on launch, and restore agent sessions when a workspace reopens.
• Notifications — whether Deska alerts you when an agent finishes or needs input, and whether to do so only while the window is unfocused.

Privacy holds the opt-in toggles for crash reports and anonymous usage data — both on by default, both able to be switched off. See Privacy & your data for exactly what each one sends.

Advanced shows your version and an update check, lets you replay the onboarding tour, and reset all settings to their defaults. It is also where external tool providers (MCP servers) will be managed — that panel is an early preview today and not yet wired to live servers.

You can open Settings any time with Cmd/Ctrl,.