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