Appearance & settings

WebLogcat's chrome is intentionally small — most state belongs to individual widgets. Two places carry global preferences: the appearance popover and the global settings modal.

Appearance popover

The half-circle icon in the topbar opens an appearance popover with three controls:

• Theme. Light / Dark. Both are first-class — the design tokens are hand-tuned for both modes.
• Color scheme. Indigo, Teal, Amber, or Rose. Picks the accent hue that flows through buttons, focus rings, level pills, etc. — driven by --accent-hue in tokens.css.
• Layout: Compact mode. Drops the gap and the rounded corners between tiles so widgets share every pixel of the dashboard. Useful on smaller laptops.

Preferences persist via localStorage and apply instantly — no reload.

Global settings modal

The cog icon in the topbar opens a modal with cross-cutting options:

• Performance mode. Disables the position transition on tiles and reduces a few non-essential animations. Auto-on if the OS reports prefers-reduced-motion: reduce. Pin to On if your laptop struggles with the dashboard at 120 Hz.
• Simulated stream speed. Affects only the simulator. Trickle / Steady / Firehose; defaults to Steady.
• Reset all preferences. Wipes every weblogcat:* localStorage key and reloads.

Per-widget settings

Each widget exposes its own settings modal via the cog in its tile header. The contents are widget-specific — see the relevant feature page:

• Logcat
• Shell
• Dumpsys
• Files
• Screen Mirror

Widget palette

+ Add widget in the topbar opens the palette. Five cards, one per kind; disabled cards (e.g. Mirror after one is already mounted) are greyed out with the reason on hover.

The palette also supports the keyboard:

• ↑ / ↓ to move the selection.
• Enter to add the highlighted widget.
• Esc to dismiss.

Help dialog

? anywhere in the app opens the Keyboard shortcuts dialog. It's the authoritative list — the tables in this site are kept in sync but the dialog is what ships in the build.