Appearance

Adjust desktop colors, interface scale, sidebar layout, and transparency.

Open Configuration → Appearance in the desktop title bar. These options are saved on this device. They do not sync to other Harness clients or change the display on your phone.

Colors and interface scale

Option	Purpose
Colour palette	Choose Default, Nord, Solarized, Forest, Amber, GitHub, GitHub Dimmed, or GitHub High Contrast
Interface scale	Adjust text and controls on this device; available from 50%–200% in 10% increments, with a default of 100%
Terminal mode	Collapse the sidebar to give content more space; keep the original fonts rather than switch to a command-line terminal

Palettes support both light and dark interfaces. With terminal mode enabled, you can still use the top-left sidebar button to reveal the sidebar.

Transparency and background blur

1. Turn on Enable native transparency.
2. Quit the app completely and reopen it when prompted. Closing to the tray does not restart the app. Turning native transparency off also requires a complete quit and reopen.
3. Adjust background opacity and choose whether to keep the content area opaque and enable background blur.

Option	Behavior
Keep content area opaque	Keep the main content area opaque while allowing desktop colors to show through the window background and sidebar
Background opacity	Available from 20%–100%; lower values make the background more transparent, and 100% makes it opaque
Background blur	Use system backdrop effects on Windows and macOS; Linux behavior depends on the compositor

Each time you enable native transparency, it starts with 80% background opacity, background blur enabled, and the content area kept opaque. You can then adjust these options. Text and menus stay opaque.

The actual transparency and blur effects depend on your window system. If the background makes reading difficult, increase opacity or keep the content area opaque. To disable transparency completely, turn off native transparency, then quit and reopen the app.

Restore defaults

Click Restore defaults to restore the default palette and 100% interface scale, disable terminal mode, native transparency, background blur, and the opaque-content option, and reset background opacity to 100%. If native transparency was enabled, you still need to quit completely and reopen the app.

See Desktop settings for service, profile, plugin, and core engine configuration.