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Every Settings page and option

Each page of the Settings app, its groups and every option, generated from Settings' source

This page lists, for every page of Settings in the sidebar's order, its groups and the options on them, with the explanation Settings shows under each one. It is generated from the Settings app's source code, so it matches this release. Lists that depend on your computer (Wi-Fi networks, printers, Bluetooth devices, users, apps) are filled in when the page opens and aren't shown here.

The settings behind these options are listed in GSettings keys.

Network

Status

VPN and Advanced

  • Open Connection Editor…

Wi-Fi

  • NetworkManager is not running
  • Wi-Fi

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/network.py

Bluetooth

Devices

  • No Bluetooth adapter found
  • Bluetooth
  • Advanced Bluetooth Settings…

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/devices.py

Displays

No displays found

  • Enabled
  • Resolution
  • Scale
  • Orientation

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/display.py

Sound

Output

Input

Volume Mixer

  • Over-amplification — Allow the volume above 100%. Sound may be distorted.

System Sounds

  • Startup and shutdown sounds — The Aurora sound when you log in, shut down, restart or log out
  • No devices found
  • Volume
  • Balance

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/sound.py

Power

Screen

  • Screen blank — Turn the screen off after a period of inactivity
  • Automatic screen lock

Automatic Suspend

Power Button and Lid

  • Power button
  • Closing the lid

Power mode

  • Power mode

Battery

  • Charge
  • Show battery percentage — Next to the battery icon in the top bar
  • Turn on Battery Saver (Never, At 10%, At 20%, At 30%, At 50%) — Power Saver mode on battery below this charge, off again when you plug in
  • Battery health
  • Limit charging to 80% — Keeping a battery below full makes it last years longer. Turn off before a trip for a full charge.

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/power.py

Appearance

Background

  • Personalize your background
  • Series — The same landscape at dawn, day, dusk and night
  • Recent images
  • Picture from — Aurora asks the service for today's picture once a day; nothing else is sent
  • Pictures from
  • Change picture every (15 minutes, 1 hour, 6 hours, 24 hours)
  • Shuffle the picture order
  • Choose a color

Style

  • Color scheme (Light, Dark, Auto) — Auto switches to dark at sunset and back at sunrise
  • Accent color
  • Icons
  • Pointer
  • Pointer size
  • Animations
  • Window animations — Windows fade in as they open; files and folders float in as a folder opens

Fonts

  • Scaling
  • Anti-aliasing (Standard (grayscale), Subpixel (for LCD screens), None)
  • Hinting (Slight, None, Medium, Full)

Night Light

  • Night Light
  • Not available on this screen — The graphics driver doesn't allow color changes (usual in a virtual machine).
  • Schedule (Sunset to Sunrise, Manual, All the Time) — Sunset and sunrise follow your time zone
  • Color temperature

Lock Screen

  • Picture
  • Background (Same as the desktop, The desktop's, blurred, A picture)
  • Show my name and picture — Off: only the time, the date and the password field

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/appearance.py

Desktop & Dock

Layout

Top Bar

  • Position (Top, Bottom)
  • Clock (Right, Center)
  • Opacity
  • Show seconds
  • System monitor
  • Show Desktop button

Desktop Widgets

  • Show widgets
  • Edit Widgets…

Dock

  • Position (Bottom, Left, Right, Hidden)
  • Style (Floating, Full-width panel)
  • Icon size
  • Magnify icons on hover
  • Automatically hide
  • Show Trash

Windows

  • Buttons (Left, Right)
  • Button style (Colored circles, Monochrome icons)
  • Corner radius
  • Gaps around snapped windows

Desktop

  • Show files from the Desktop folder
  • Icon position (Top left, Top right)

Super Key

  • Super opens (Spotlight search, Launchpad (all apps))

Search Results

  • Apps
  • Recent files
  • Settings
  • Code projects
  • Calculator
  • Unit and currency conversion
  • Ask Aurora AI
  • Web search

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/desktop.py

Desktop Profiles

Ready-made profiles

Saved profiles

  • Save current setup…

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/desktop.py

Multitasking

Workspaces

Hot Corners

  • Top left
  • Top right
  • Bottom left
  • Bottom right

Windows

  • Snap windows to screen edges — Drag a window to an edge to fill half the screen
  • Drag to the top to maximize
  • Focus follows the pointer

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/inputs.py

Notifications

  • Do Not Disturb — Only urgent notifications will pop up. Everything still appears in the notification center.

Automatic Do Not Disturb

  • On a schedule
  • From
  • To
  • While an app is fullscreen — Games, videos and presentations
  • While sharing or recording the screen

Where to find them

  • Click the clock in the top bar — to see past notifications and the calendar.

App Notifications

  • No notifications yet

Removable Media

  • When a drive is connected

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/applications.py

Apps

Default Apps

Startup Apps

  • No startup apps

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/applications.py

Screen Time

Today

Apps today

Privacy

  • Count screen time
  • Clear Screen Time History
  • Nothing yet today

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/screentime.py

Mouse & Touchpad

General

  • Left-handed

Mouse

  • Acceleration (Adaptive, Flat)
  • Natural scrolling — Content moves in the direction of the wheel

Touchpad

  • Tap to click
  • Natural scrolling
  • Disable while typing
  • Scroll method (Two fingers, Edge)
  • Secondary click (Two-finger click, Bottom-right corner)
  • Gestures — Three fingers: up for all windows, down for the desktop, sideways to change workspace. Pinch with four fingers for Launchpad.
  • Pointer speed

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/inputs.py

Keyboard

Typing

  • Repeat delay (ms) (keyboard, repeatDelay)
  • Repeat rate (per second) (keyboard, repeatRate)
  • Num Lock on at login
  • Show Caps Lock and Num Lock on screen — A moment's notice when you press them

Special Characters

  • Compose key
  • Emoji — Super+. opens the emoji picker in any app.

Shortcuts

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/inputs.py

Printers

Printers

  • No printers
  • Add or Configure Printers…

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/devices.py

Accessibility

Seeing

  • High contrast
  • Text size
  • Pointer size
  • Reduce animation
  • Always show scrollbars
  • Screen reader — Reads the screen aloud (Orca)

Zoom

  • Magnification
  • Zoom area (Whole screen, Lens around the pointer)

Hearing

  • Alert sounds
  • Captions — Firefox and Videos show subtitles when a video has them; Aurora AI can dictate what you say.

Typing

  • Keyboard theme
  • Screen keyboard — A keyboard on the screen, for touch screens or when a keyboard is hard to use
  • Blinking text cursor
  • Repeat keys — Repeat delay and speed are in Keyboard.

Pointing & Clicking

  • Double-click delay
  • Pointer speed

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/applications.py

Privacy & Security

Screen Lock

  • Lock automatically — When the screen turns off or the computer sleeps
  • Lock now — Super + L

File History

  • Remember recent files
  • Clear History…

Clipboard History

  • Remember copied text
  • Clear Clipboard History
  • Manage Clipboard History…

Online Services

  • Weather next to the calendar — Asks Open-Meteo for the weather of your time zone’s main city. No account, no exact location.

Firewall

  • Firewall

Trash

  • Automatically empty Trash — Items older than 30 days

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/system.py

App Permissions

Sandboxed Apps

  • No Flatpak apps installed

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/system.py

Sharing

Remote Login

  • OpenSSH server is not installed
  • Secure Shell (SSH)
  • Connect with

Screen Sharing

  • wayvnc is not installed
  • Share this screen
  • Connect to
  • Password

Nearby Sharing

  • LocalSend is not installed
  • Let nearby devices find this computer — Opens port 53317 in the firewall

Phone

  • KDE Connect is not installed
  • Allow phones to connect — Opens the KDE Connect ports (1714–1764) in the firewall
  • Paired devices — Pair, browse the phone’s files, ring it, send files

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/system.py

AI

Aurora AI

  • Aurora AI
  • Assistant button in the top bar — The Assistant is also in the dock and opens with Super+Shift+Space

Answers Come From

  • Provider (This computer (private), Anthropic Claude, OpenAI-compatible API)

Model on This Computer

Cloud Provider

  • API keys are paid per use — Every answer uses credits billed by the provider, separately from any Claude Pro/Max or ChatGPT Plus subscription, which API keys don't use. Check prices and set a spending limit in the provider's console. Answers on this computer are free.
  • API key
  • Claude model
  • Service — Fills in the address; then add your key and a model name
  • API address
  • Model

Where Aurora AI Helps

  • Writing tools
  • Files
  • Screenshots
  • Notifications
  • Ask from Spotlight — Type ? and a question. Super+Shift+Space opens the Assistant.
  • Terminal commands — ask "what to do" suggests a command; why explains the last error
  • Dictation — Super+H, speak, Super+H again: the text is typed where you are. Speech recognition runs on this computer (Whisper).
  • Dictation accuracy (Quick (Whisper base), Accurate (Whisper small))
  • Read aloud — Select text anywhere and press Super+Shift+R (a natural voice for your language, Piper)
  • Search documents by meaning — Spotlight finds files by what they're about, not only their name
  • Folders to index
  • Update the Index Now

Storage

  • Space used by AI
  • Remove All AI Downloads

Languages

  • Answers in
  • Dictation language
  • Read-aloud voice

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/ai.py

Users

Your Account

  • Full name
  • Username
  • Change Password…

Online Accounts

  • Online Accounts

Login

  • Log in automatically — Skip the login screen when the computer starts

Other Users

  • Current password
  • New password
  • Confirm new password
  • No other users
  • Full name
  • Username
  • Password
  • Administrator

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/system.py

Language & Region

Language

  • Language
  • Formats — Dates, times, numbers and units
  • Log Out Now

Keyboard

  • Add layout

Input Methods

  • Input method settings — Shortcuts, suggestions, fuzzy pinyin

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/language.py

Date & Time

  • Current time
  • Automatic date & time — Requires an internet connection
  • Time zone
  • 24-hour clock

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/timedate.py

Software Updates

Updates

  • Install security updates automatically
  • Available updates — Checking…
  • Open App Center to Update…

Restarts

  • Active hours start
  • Active hours end
  • Restart automatically outside active hours — With a five-minute warning you can postpone

Additional Drivers

  • Graphics — Checking…

System Snapshots

  • Snapshot before every update — Keeps the last 10, plus daily and weekly ones
  • Take a Snapshot Now
  • Open Timeshift…

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/system.py

Storage

Disk

What takes the space

Clean up now

  • Empty the Trash
  • Clear temporary files and cache
  • Downloads older than 30 days — Moved to the Trash, so you can still get them back

Storage Sense

  • Empty old items from the Trash
  • Delete old temporary files
  • Old means older than (1 week, 2 weeks, 30 days, 60 days)
  • Move unused Downloads to the Trash (Never, After 2 weeks, After 30 days, After 60 days)

More

  • Disks and partitions — Format, check and mount drives
  • See every folder's size — Disk Usage Analyzer

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/storage.py

System Health

Aurora Doctor

  • Checking…

Guided Diagnostics

  • Create Diagnostic Report…
  • Problem
  • Include detailed logs — Logs may contain personal information. Review the report before sharing it.

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/health.py

About

Device

  • Device name

Software

Source: desktop/aurora/settingsapp/about.py