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title: "Settings and shortcuts · Docs"
description: "Every Donut Browser setting: themes, language, privacy, data folder, updates and logs, plus all the keyboard shortcuts and the command palette."
url: "https://donutbrowser.com/docs/settings/"
---

# Settings, shortcuts and the command palette

Open **Settings** in the sidebar, or press **Cmd/Ctrl+,**. The search box at the top finds a setting by name. Most changes wait for **Save Settings**; **Discard changes** drops them. Sections marked "Actions in this section apply immediately" need no save.

## Settings

| Section | What it controls |
| --- | --- |
| Appearance | **Theme**: Light, Dark, System, a **Theme Preset**, or **Custom Colors**. **Interface sounds** for buttons and switches. |
| Language | The interface language, or **System Default**. |
| Default Browser | **Set as Default Browser**: links from other apps open in the profile you pick. Not in the portable Windows build. |
| System Permissions | macOS only. Microphone and camera access for the browsers Donut starts. Each site still asks. |
| Integrations | **Open Integrations Settings** opens the Integrations page (**Cmd/Ctrl+I**): the local API and remote MCP. |
| DNS Blocklist | **Manage DNS Blocklists**: the blocklist levels with their domain counts, **Refresh All Lists**, and your custom lists. See [DNS blocklist](https://donutbrowser.com/docs/proxies#dns-blocklist). |
| Sync Encryption | The password for end-to-end encrypted sync. See [Sync and backup](https://donutbrowser.com/docs/sync). |
| Commercial License | The time left in the commercial trial, or your plan. |
| Privacy | **Block on fingerprint mismatch**, **Block launches without a proxy or VPN**, **VPN extension warning**, **Record visited sites**, **Clear all traffic history** and **Keep deleted profiles for** (days in the trash, or **Delete at once**). See [Leak protection](https://donutbrowser.com/docs/proxies#leak-protection). |
| Advanced | **Disable App Auto Updates** (browser updates continue), **Keep Decrypted Profiles In RAM**, **Clear All Version Cache**, **Copy logs** (a redacted bundle of recent logs, up to 5 MB) and **Open log folder**. |

Redaction removes email addresses, IP addresses, web addresses and secrets, but it cannot find every kind of personal data. Read the logs before you share them.

To keep profiles, browsers and settings in another folder, start the app with the `DONUTBROWSER_DATA_DIR` environment variable set to that folder.

![Settings page, Appearance section. Theme is set to Custom with the Theme Preset Tokyo Night, and a grid of Custom Colors swatches: background, foreground, card, popover, primary, secondary, muted, accent, destructive, success, warning, border and five chart colors. Below: an Interface sounds switch, and Discard changes and Save Settings buttons. Section tabs across the top: Appearance, Language, Default Browser, System Permissions, Integrations, DNS Blocklist, Sync Encryption, Commercial License, Privacy.](https://donutbrowser.com/img/docs/settings.webp "Pick Light, Dark, System or a custom theme from presets, then adjust any color.")

## Keyboard shortcuts

**Mod** is **Cmd** on macOS and **Ctrl** on Windows and Linux. **More → Keyboard shortcuts** (**Mod+/**) shows the same list, with a search box.

| Shortcut | Action |
| --- | --- |
| Mod+K | Open the command palette |
| Mod+/ | View keyboard shortcuts |
| Mod+P | Go to Profiles |
| Mod+N | Go to Network |
| Mod+E | Go to Extensions |
| Mod+G | Go to Groups |
| Mod+B | Go to Cookie Bot |
| Mod+J | Go to Agent |
| Mod+I | Go to Integrations |
| Mod+Shift+A | Go to Account |
| Mod+, | Go to Settings |
| Mod+Shift+T | Go to Trash |
| Mod+O | Import profile |
| Mod+Shift+O | 2FA code from a key |
| Mod+Shift+H | Open tips |
| Mod+Shift+F | Send feedback |
| Mod+1 to Mod+9 | Show one profile group |

## Command palette

Press **Mod+K** and type. The palette goes to any page, launches or stops a profile by name, opens a profile's details, creates a profile, and switches the profile group.

![Command palette open over the profile table, with a search field and navigation commands such as Go to Profiles, Go to Network, Go to Extensions and Go to Groups, each with its keyboard shortcut.](https://donutbrowser.com/img/docs/command-palette.webp "Press Cmd+K (Ctrl+K) to search commands and profiles.")

## Tips and feedback

**More → Tips** has short walkthroughs of features. **More → Send feedback** sends a message to the Donut team. Tick **Include recent logs** to attach the redacted logs; **Preview logs** shows them first.

## Updates

The app checks for its own updates and shows a notice when one is ready. Wayfern updates download in the background. To find the version you run, open **More → About Donut Browser**.