1# Visual Customization
2
3Various aspects of Zed's visual layout can be configured via either the settings window or the `settings.json` file, which you can access via {#action zed::OpenSettings} ({#kb zed::OpenSettings}) and {#action zed::OpenSettingsFile} ({#kb zed::OpenSettingsFile}) respectively.
4
5See [Configuring Zed](./configuring-zed.md) for additional information and other non-visual settings.
6
7## Themes
8
9You can install many [themes](./themes.md) and [icon themes](./icon-themes.md) in form of extensions by running {#action zed::Extensions} from the command palette.
10
11You can preview/choose amongst your installed themes and icon themes with {#action theme_selector::Toggle} ({#kb theme_selector::Toggle}) and {#action icon_theme_selector::Toggle} which will modify the following settings:
12
13```json [settings]
14{
15 "theme": "One Dark",
16 "icon_theme": "Zed (Default)"
17}
18```
19
20If you would like to use distinct themes for light mode/dark mode that can be set with:
21
22```json [settings]
23{
24 "theme": {
25 "dark": "One Dark",
26 "light": "One Light",
27 // Mode to use (dark, light) or "system" to follow the OS's light/dark mode (default)
28 "mode": "system"
29 },
30 "icon_theme": {
31 "dark": "Zed (Default)",
32 "light": "Zed (Default)",
33 // Mode to use (dark, light) or "system" to follow the OS's light/dark mode (default)
34 "mode": "system"
35 }
36}
37```
38
39## Fonts
40
41```json [settings]
42 // UI Font. Use ".SystemUIFont" to use the default system font (SF Pro on macOS),
43 // or ".ZedSans" for the bundled default (currently IBM Plex)
44 "ui_font_family": ".SystemUIFont",
45 "ui_font_weight": 400, // Font weight in standard CSS units from 100 to 900.
46 "ui_font_size": 16,
47
48 // Buffer Font - Used by editor buffers
49 // use ".ZedMono" for the bundled default monospace (currently Lilex)
50 "buffer_font_family": "Berkeley Mono", // Font name for editor buffers
51 "buffer_font_size": 15, // Font size for editor buffers
52 "buffer_font_weight": 400, // Font weight in CSS units [100-900]
53 // Line height "comfortable" (1.618), "standard" (1.3) or custom: `{ "custom": 2 }`
54 "buffer_line_height": "comfortable",
55
56 // Terminal Font Settings
57 "terminal": {
58 "font_family": "",
59 "font_size": 15,
60 // Terminal line height: comfortable (1.618), standard(1.3) or `{ "custom": 2 }`
61 "line_height": "standard",
62 },
63
64 // Controls the font size for agent responses in the agent panel.
65 // If not specified, it falls back to the UI font size.
66 "agent_ui_font_size": 15,
67 // Controls the font size for the agent panel's message editor, user message,
68 // and any other snippet of code.
69 "agent_buffer_font_size": 12
70```
71
72### Font ligatures
73
74By default Zed enable font ligatures which will visually combines certain adjacent characters.
75
76For example `=>` will be displayed as `→` and `!=` will be `≠`.
77This is purely cosmetic and the individual characters remain unchanged.
78
79To disable this behavior use:
80
81```json [settings]
82{
83 "buffer_font_features": {
84 "calt": false // Disable ligatures
85 }
86}
87```
88
89### Status Bar
90
91```json [settings]
92{
93 // Whether to show full labels in line indicator or short ones
94 // - `short`: "2 s, 15 l, 32 c"
95 // - `long`: "2 selections, 15 lines, 32 characters"
96 "line_indicator_format": "long"
97
98 // Individual status bar icons can be hidden:
99 // "project_panel": {"button": false },
100 // "outline_panel": {"button": false },
101 // "collaboration_panel": {"button": false },
102 // "git_panel": {"button": false },
103 // "notification_panel": {"button": false },
104 // "agent": {"button": false },
105 // "debugger": {"button": false },
106 // "diagnostics": {"button": false },
107 // "search": {"button": false },
108}
109```
110
111### Titlebar
112
113```json [settings]
114 // Control which items are shown/hidden in the title bar
115 "title_bar": {
116 "show_branch_icon": false, // Show/hide branch icon beside branch switcher
117 "show_branch_name": true, // Show/hide branch name
118 "show_project_items": true, // Show/hide project host and name
119 "show_onboarding_banner": true, // Show/hide onboarding banners
120 "show_user_picture": true, // Show/hide user avatar
121 "show_sign_in": true, // Show/hide sign-in button
122 "show_menus": false // Show/hide menus
123 },
124```
125
126## Workspace
127
128```json [settings]
129{
130 // Force usage of Zed build in path prompts (file and directory pickers)
131 // instead of OS native pickers (false).
132 "use_system_path_prompts": true,
133 // Force usage of Zed built in confirmation prompts ("Do you want to save?")
134 // instead of OS native prompts (false). On linux this is ignored (always false).
135 "use_system_prompts": true,
136
137 // Active pane styling settings.
138 "active_pane_modifiers": {
139 // Inset border size of the active pane, in pixels.
140 "border_size": 0.0,
141 // Opacity of the inactive panes. 0 means transparent, 1 means opaque.
142 "inactive_opacity": 1.0
143 },
144
145 // Layout mode of the bottom dock: contained, full, left_aligned, right_aligned
146 "bottom_dock_layout": "contained",
147
148 // Whether to resize all the panels in a dock when resizing the dock.
149 // Can be a combination of "left", "right" and "bottom".
150 "resize_all_panels_in_dock": ["left"]
151}
152```
153
154<!--
155TBD: Centered layout related settings
156```json [settings]
157 "centered_layout": {
158 // The relative width of the left padding of the central pane from the
159 // workspace when the centered layout is used.
160 "left_padding": 0.2,
161 // The relative width of the right padding of the central pane from the
162 // workspace when the centered layout is used.
163 "right_padding": 0.2
164 },
165```
166-->
167
168## Editor
169
170```json [settings]
171 // Whether the cursor blinks in the editor.
172 "cursor_blink": true,
173
174 // Cursor shape for the default editor: bar, block, underline, hollow
175 "cursor_shape": null,
176
177 // Highlight the current line in the editor: none, gutter, line, all
178 "current_line_highlight": "all",
179
180 // When does the mouse cursor hide: never, on_typing, on_typing_and_movement
181 "hide_mouse": "on_typing_and_movement",
182
183 // Whether to highlight all occurrences of the selected text in an editor.
184 "selection_highlight": true,
185
186 // Visually show tabs and spaces (none, all, selection, boundary, trailing)
187 "show_whitespaces": "selection",
188 "whitespace_map": { // Which characters to show when `show_whitespaces` enabled
189 "space": "•",
190 "tab": "⟶" // use "→", for a shorter arrow
191 },
192
193 "unnecessary_code_fade": 0.3, // How much to fade out unused code.
194
195 // Hide the values of in variables from visual display in private files
196 "redact_private_values": false,
197
198 // Soft-wrap and rulers
199 "soft_wrap": "none", // none, editor_width, preferred_line_length, bounded
200 "preferred_line_length": 80, // Column to soft-wrap
201 "show_wrap_guides": true, // Show/hide wrap guides (vertical rulers)
202 "wrap_guides": [], // Where to position wrap_guides (character counts)
203
204 // Gutter Settings
205 "gutter": {
206 "line_numbers": true, // Show/hide line numbers in the gutter.
207 "runnables": true, // Show/hide runnables buttons in the gutter.
208 "breakpoints": true, // Show/hide show breakpoints in the gutter.
209 "folds": true, // Show/hide show fold buttons in the gutter.
210 "min_line_number_digits": 4 // Reserve space for N digit line numbers
211 },
212 "relative_line_numbers": "enabled", // Show relative line numbers in gutter
213
214 // Indent guides
215 "indent_guides": {
216 "enabled": true,
217 "line_width": 1, // Width of guides in pixels [1-10]
218 "active_line_width": 1, // Width of active guide in pixels [1-10]
219 "coloring": "fixed", // disabled, fixed, indent_aware
220 "background_coloring": "disabled" // disabled, indent_aware
221 }
222```
223
224### Git Blame {#editor-blame}
225
226```json [settings]
227 "git": {
228 "inline_blame": {
229 "enabled": true, // Show/hide inline blame
230 "delay_ms": 0, // Show after delay (ms)
231 "min_column": 0, // Minimum column to inline display blame
232 "padding": 7, // Padding between code and inline blame (em)
233 "show_commit_summary": false // Show/hide commit summary
234 },
235 "hunk_style": "staged_hollow" // staged_hollow, unstaged_hollow
236 }
237```
238
239### Editor Toolbar
240
241```json [settings]
242 // Editor toolbar related settings
243 "toolbar": {
244 "breadcrumbs": true, // Whether to show breadcrumbs.
245 "quick_actions": true, // Whether to show quick action buttons.
246 "selections_menu": true, // Whether to show the Selections menu
247 "agent_review": true, // Whether to show agent review buttons
248 "code_actions": false // Whether to show code action buttons
249 }
250```
251
252### Editor Scrollbar and Minimap {#editor-scrollbar}
253
254```json [settings]
255 // Scrollbar related settings
256 "scrollbar": {
257 // When to show the scrollbar in the editor (auto, system, always, never)
258 "show": "auto",
259 "cursors": true, // Show cursor positions in the scrollbar.
260 "git_diff": true, // Show git diff indicators in the scrollbar.
261 "search_results": true, // Show buffer search results in the scrollbar.
262 "selected_text": true, // Show selected text occurrences in the scrollbar.
263 "selected_symbol": true, // Show selected symbol occurrences in the scrollbar.
264 "diagnostics": "all", // Show diagnostics (none, error, warning, information, all)
265 "axes": {
266 "horizontal": true, // Show/hide the horizontal scrollbar
267 "vertical": true // Show/hide the vertical scrollbar
268 }
269 },
270
271 // Minimap related settings
272 "minimap": {
273 "show": "never", // When to show (auto, always, never)
274 "display_in": "active_editor", // Where to show (active_editor, all_editor)
275 "thumb": "always", // When to show thumb (always, hover)
276 "thumb_border": "left_open", // Thumb border (left_open, right_open, full, none)
277 "max_width_columns": 80, // Maximum width of minimap
278 "current_line_highlight": null // Highlight current line (null, line, gutter)
279 },
280
281 // Control Editor scroll beyond the last line: off, one_page, vertical_scroll_margin
282 "scroll_beyond_last_line": "one_page",
283 // Lines to keep above/below the cursor when scrolling with the keyboard
284 "vertical_scroll_margin": 3,
285 // The number of characters to keep on either side when scrolling with the mouse
286 "horizontal_scroll_margin": 5,
287 // Scroll sensitivity multiplier
288 "scroll_sensitivity": 1.0,
289 // Scroll sensitivity multiplier for fast scrolling (hold alt while scrolling)
290 "fast_scroll_sensitivity": 4.0,
291```
292
293### Editor Tabs
294
295```json [settings]
296 // Maximum number of tabs per pane. Unset for unlimited.
297 "max_tabs": null,
298
299 // Customize the tab bar appearance
300 "tab_bar": {
301 "show": true, // Show/hide the tab bar
302 "show_nav_history_buttons": true, // Show/hide history buttons on tab bar
303 "show_tab_bar_buttons": true // Show hide buttons (new, split, zoom)
304 },
305 "tabs": {
306 "git_status": false, // Color to show git status
307 "close_position": "right", // Close button position (left, right, hidden)
308 "show_close_button": "hover", // Close button shown (hover, always, hidden)
309 "file_icons": false, // Icon showing file type
310 // Show diagnostics in file icon (off, errors, all). Requires file_icons=true
311 "show_diagnostics": "off"
312 }
313```
314
315### Status Bar
316
317```json [settings]
318 "status_bar": {
319 // Show/hide a button that displays the active buffer's language.
320 // Clicking the button brings up the language selector.
321 // Defaults to true.
322 "active_language_button": true,
323 // Show/hide a button that displays the cursor's position.
324 // Clicking the button brings up an input for jumping to a line and column.
325 // Defaults to true.
326 "cursor_position_button": true,
327 // Show/hide a button that displays the buffer's line-ending mode.
328 // Clicking the button brings up the line-ending selector.
329 // Defaults to false.
330 "line_endings_button": false
331 },
332 "global_lsp_settings": {
333 // Show/hide the LSP button in the status bar.
334 // Activity from the LSP is still shown.
335 // Button is not shown if "enable_language_server" if false.
336 "button": true
337 },
338```
339
340### Multibuffer
341
342```json [settings]
343{
344 // The default number of lines to expand excerpts in the multibuffer by.
345 "expand_excerpt_lines": 5,
346 // The default number of lines of context provided for excerpts in the multibuffer by.
347 "excerpt_context_lines": 2
348}
349```
350
351### Editor Completions, Snippets, Actions, Diagnostics {#editor-lsp}
352
353```json [settings]
354 "snippet_sort_order": "inline", // Snippets completions: top, inline, bottom, none
355 "show_completions_on_input": true, // Show completions while typing
356 "show_completion_documentation": true, // Show documentation in completions
357 "auto_signature_help": false, // Show method signatures inside parentheses
358
359 // Whether to show the signature help after completion or a bracket pair inserted.
360 // If `auto_signature_help` is enabled, this setting will be treated as enabled also.
361 "show_signature_help_after_edits": false,
362
363 // Whether to show code action button at start of buffer line.
364 "inline_code_actions": true,
365
366 // Which level to use to filter out diagnostics displayed in the editor:
367 "diagnostics_max_severity": null, // off, error, warning, info, hint, null (all)
368
369 // How to render LSP `textDocument/documentColor` colors in the editor.
370 "lsp_document_colors": "inlay", // none, inlay, border, background
371 // When to show the scrollbar in the completion menu.
372 "completion_menu_scrollbar": "never", // auto, system, always, never
373 // Turn on colorization of brackets in editors (configurable per language)
374 "colorize_brackets": true,
375
376### Edit Predictions {#editor-ai}
377
378```json [settings]
379 "edit_predictions": {
380 "mode": "eager", // Automatically show (eager) or hold-alt (subtle)
381 "enabled_in_text_threads": true // Show/hide predictions in agent text threads
382 },
383 "show_edit_predictions": true // Show/hide predictions in editor
384```
385
386### Editor Inlay Hints
387
388```json [settings]
389{
390 "inlay_hints": {
391 "enabled": false,
392 // Toggle certain types of hints on and off, all switched on by default.
393 "show_type_hints": true,
394 "show_parameter_hints": true,
395 "show_other_hints": true,
396
397 // Whether to show a background for inlay hints (theme `hint.background`)
398 "show_background": false, //
399
400 // Time to wait after editing before requesting hints (0 to disable debounce)
401 "edit_debounce_ms": 700,
402 // Time to wait after scrolling before requesting hints (0 to disable debounce)
403 "scroll_debounce_ms": 50,
404
405 // A set of modifiers which, when pressed, will toggle the visibility of inlay hints.
406 "toggle_on_modifiers_press": {
407 "control": false,
408 "shift": false,
409 "alt": false,
410 "platform": false,
411 "function": false
412 }
413 }
414}
415```
416
417## File Finder
418
419```json [settings]
420 // File Finder Settings
421 "file_finder": {
422 "file_icons": true, // Show/hide file icons
423 "modal_max_width": "small", // Horizontal size: small, medium, large, xlarge, full
424 "git_status": true, // Show the git status for each entry
425 "include_ignored": null // gitignored files in results: true, false, null
426 },
427```
428
429## Project Panel
430
431Project panel can be shown/hidden with {#action project_panel::ToggleFocus} ({#kb project_panel::ToggleFocus}) or with {#action pane::RevealInProjectPanel} ({#kb pane::RevealInProjectPanel}).
432
433```json [settings]
434 // Project Panel Settings
435 "project_panel": {
436 "button": true, // Show/hide button in the status bar
437 "default_width": 240, // Default panel width
438 "dock": "left", // Position of the dock (left, right)
439 "entry_spacing": "comfortable", // Vertical spacing (comfortable, standard)
440 "file_icons": true, // Show/hide file icons
441 "folder_icons": true, // Show/hide folder icons
442 "git_status": true, // Indicate new/updated files
443 "indent_size": 20, // Pixels for each successive indent
444 "auto_reveal_entries": true, // Show file in panel when activating its buffer
445 "auto_fold_dirs": true, // Fold dirs with single subdir
446 "sticky_scroll": true, // Stick parent directories at top of the project panel.
447 "drag_and_drop": true, // Whether drag and drop is enabled
448 "scrollbar": { // Project panel scrollbar settings
449 "show": null // Show/hide: (auto, system, always, never)
450 },
451 "show_diagnostics": "all", //
452 // Settings related to indent guides in the project panel.
453 "indent_guides": {
454 // When to show indent guides in the project panel. (always, never)
455 "show": "always"
456 },
457 // Whether to hide the root entry when only one folder is open in the window.
458 "hide_root": false,
459 // Whether to hide the hidden entries in the project panel.
460 "hide_hidden": false
461 }
462```
463
464## Agent Panel
465
466```json [settings]
467 "agent": {
468 "version": "2",
469 "enabled": true, // Enable/disable the agent
470 "button": true, // Show/hide the icon in the status bar
471 "dock": "right", // Where to dock: left, right, bottom
472 "default_width": 640, // Default width (left/right docked)
473 "default_height": 320, // Default height (bottom docked)
474 },
475 // Controls the font size for agent responses in the agent panel.
476 // If not specified, it falls back to the UI font size.
477 "agent_ui_font_size": 15,
478 // Controls the font size for the agent panel's message editor, user message,
479 // and any other snippet of code.
480 "agent_buffer_font_size": 12
481```
482
483See [Zed AI Documentation](./ai/overview.md) for additional non-visual AI settings.
484
485## Terminal Panel
486
487```json [settings]
488 // Terminal Panel Settings
489 "terminal": {
490 "dock": "bottom", // Where to dock: left, right, bottom
491 "button": true, // Show/hide status bar icon
492 "default_width": 640, // Default width (left/right docked)
493 "default_height": 320, // Default height (bottom docked)
494
495 // Set the cursor blinking behavior in the terminal (on, off, terminal_controlled)
496 "blinking": "terminal_controlled",
497 // Default cursor shape for the terminal cursor (block, bar, underline, hollow)
498 "cursor_shape": "block",
499
500 // Environment variables to add to terminal's process environment
501 "env": {
502 // "KEY": "value"
503 },
504
505 // Terminal scrollbar
506 "scrollbar": {
507 "show": null // Show/hide: (auto, system, always, never)
508 },
509 // Terminal Font Settings
510 "font_family": "Fira Code",
511 "font_size": 15,
512 "font_weight": 400,
513 // Terminal line height: comfortable (1.618), standard(1.3) or `{ "custom": 2 }`
514 "line_height": "comfortable",
515
516 "max_scroll_history_lines": 10000, // Scrollback history (0=disable, max=100000)
517 }
518```
519
520See [Terminal settings](./configuring-zed.md#terminal) for additional non-visual customization options.
521
522### Other Panels
523
524```json [settings]
525 // Git Panel
526 "git_panel": {
527 "button": true, // Show/hide status bar icon
528 "dock": "left", // Where to dock: left, right
529 "default_width": 360, // Default width of the git panel.
530 "status_style": "icon", // label_color, icon
531 "sort_by_path": false, // Sort by path (false) or status (true)
532 "scrollbar": {
533 "show": null // Show/hide: (auto, system, always, never)
534 }
535 },
536
537 // Debugger Panel
538 "debugger": {
539 "dock": "bottom", // Where to dock: left, right, bottom
540 "button": true // Show/hide status bar icon
541 },
542
543 // Outline Panel
544 "outline_panel": {
545 "button": true, // Show/hide status bar icon
546 "default_width": 300, // Default width of the git panel
547 "dock": "left", // Where to dock: left, right
548 "file_icons": true, // Show/hide file_icons
549 "folder_icons": true, // Show file_icons (true), chevrons (false) for dirs
550 "git_status": true, // Show git status
551 "indent_size": 20, // Indentation for nested items (pixels)
552 "indent_guides": {
553 "show": "always" // Show indent guides (always, never)
554 },
555 "auto_reveal_entries": true, // Show file in panel when activating its buffer
556 "auto_fold_dirs": true, // Fold dirs with single subdir
557 "scrollbar": { // Project panel scrollbar settings
558 "show": null // Show/hide: (auto, system, always, never)
559 }
560 }
561```
562
563## Collaboration Panels
564
565```json [settings]
566{
567 // Collaboration Panel
568 "collaboration_panel": {
569 "button": true, // Show/hide status bar icon
570 "dock": "left", // Where to dock: left, right
571 "default_width": 240 // Default width of the collaboration panel.
572 },
573 "show_call_status_icon": true, // Shown call status in the OS status bar.
574
575 // Notification Panel
576 "notification_panel": {
577 // Whether to show the notification panel button in the status bar.
578 "button": true,
579 // Where to dock the notification panel. Can be 'left' or 'right'.
580 "dock": "right",
581 // Default width of the notification panel.
582 "default_width": 380
583 }
584}
585```