Interface

What this page is

Settings → Interface decides what is on the screen at all times and what you can hide. Seven controls in one column: the look the app is painted in, how big the window is drawn, four things you can take off the screen, and what the × in the corner of the window does.

How to set it up

1. Open Settings → Interface in the left menu. There is no Save button here: every control applies the moment you change it, and is remembered for the next launch.
2. Theme — pick one of five entries in the list on the right. Four of them are real looks, and they run from the darkest to the lightest, so you can walk down the list and stop where your eyes are comfortable; Same as the system stands apart from that scale and comes first:
   • Same as the system — takes the light or dark setting from Windows and gives you Night or Day accordingly. It never picks Graphite or Parchment: those two are yours to choose by hand. While this one is picked, the app turns with Windows, including when Windows switches on a schedule.
   • Night — the dark, almost black look the app has always had. This is what you get until you choose something else.
   • Graphite — dark as well, but a softer grey instead of near black.
   • Day — light.
   • Parchment — light and warm, closer to paper than to white.
3. The theme changes on the spot. Nothing reloads and nothing restarts, so a module settings page you have open keeps whatever you have already typed into it — it is safe to try a different look in the middle of setting something up. Your choice is remembered, and the next launch opens the window already painted in it.
4. What the theme covers: the app window and every module page inside it — settings pages and the tiles on the control panel. It stops at the edge of the app. Overlays you have added to OBS keep the look you gave them, and so does the widget preview inside a settings page. That is a decision, not a gap; the last section says why.
5. Interface scale — pick a value from the list on the right. The steps are 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 125, 150, 175 and 200 per cent. It is the same scale that Ctrl+plus and Ctrl+minus change, and Ctrl+0 puts it back to 100%; the list follows the keyboard, so it always shows the value you are looking at. If the window ends up on a value that is not one of the steps, the list adds that value as an entry of its own, in its place by size, instead of rounding it — so what you read is what you have. The scale is kept with the window and survives a restart.
6. Log console — the strip at the bottom of the window, titled System Logs Console. Switch it off and the strip goes away; it is shown by default. Only its header is on screen at first — click the header to unfold it. Once unfolded, the height is yours to set: drag the top edge of the strip. The height is remembered, the unfolded state is not, so every launch starts with the strip folded. While you are reading it the console holds its place instead of jumping to the newest line; it follows the newest line again once you scroll back to the bottom.
7. What the console shows is what has happened since this launch, and Clear console empties that view only. Records go to the log file either way — hiding the strip does not stop logging, and clearing it does not erase anything. The folder with those files is on Settings → Core, and the guide "Core" is the one that describes it. The unfolded console has two filters in its header. The list (its tooltip reads Show logs of) keeps the lines of one module only: it offers the modules that have written something since this launch, plus Core for the lines of the application itself, and All modules brings everything back. Errors only leaves the red lines, works together with the chosen module, and a view with nothing in it says "No errors to show." Warnings, the yellow lines, are not errors and stay hidden with it. Both filters only change what you see: the log file keeps every line, and the next launch starts with everything shown.
8. AI credits and plans in the sidebar — this one hides the AI CREDITS counter and the FREE / LITE / PRO / ULTRA row in the left panel. Everything on your computer works without them, so with no AI in use there is nothing to watch there. Shown by default. What the credits are and where they go is the guide "Account and Credits".
9. Living background — the soft glow and drifting particles behind the interface. Turn it off for a calmer look, or to leave every frame to the encoder while you stream. On the control panel the motion stops by itself. On by default. If animation effects are switched off in Windows, there are no particles in the first place, and this switch simply removes the glow.
10. Window close button decides what the × in the corner of the window does. Pick one of two entries in the list on the right:
    • Quit strAImer, the default, works the way the app always has: the window closes and strAImer quits. Chat commands, timers, alerts, overlays and hotkeys stop with it.
    • Hide to the tray: the × only hides the window, and strAImer keeps working. Overlays in OBS, the bot and hotkeys stay on, and sounds keep playing. The first time the window hides, a Windows notification "strAImer is still running" says how to get it back. It comes only once, and the same instructions are written under the setting.
11. With Hide to the tray, the window comes back in either of two ways: click the strAImer icon next to the clock (Windows may tuck it under the ^ arrow), or start strAImer from its shortcut again. Right-click the icon for its menu: Open strAImer and Quit strAImer. That Quit strAImer is the way to quit fully in this mode. If you use the copy made on closing, in this mode it is made only when you quit from the icon's menu; the guide "Backup" has the detail.
12. If Windows does not let strAImer put its icon next to the clock, a line under the setting says "Could not add the icon to the tray, so the × still quits strAImer." Then the × quits, whatever the list shows.
13. Assistant button is the round ? in the bottom right corner of the window. It opens the assistant on top of the page you are on, so you can follow its steps right where you set things up; the guide "Help" describes the panel. The button is not shown on the Control Panel and on the Help page. On by default. Switch it off and the button goes away on every page; if the assistant was open in a window of its own, that window closes too.

What it cannot do

The theme is a choice among the four ready looks plus "same as the system". There is no colour picker, no font, and no way to give one page a look of its own — the window is painted as one. And the following works one way only: while Same as the system is picked the app turns with Windows, but once you choose a theme by hand it stays where you put it and Windows no longer moves it.

The theme does not reach your overlays in OBS, and that is on purpose. An overlay is a picture for your viewers, and you set its look yourself on the widget's own page — colours, size, fonts. If it followed the app, then picking a lighter workspace for your second monitor would silently repaint what the whole channel is watching, mid-stream. So the overlay keeps what you gave it, whatever the app looks like around you. The preview inside a widget's settings page stays dark for the same reason: you tune a widget by looking at that picture, so the picture has to match what goes on the air rather than what surrounds it on your screen. Where the overlay's own colours live is in the guide "Overlays in OBS".

The scale list offers its fixed steps only. You cannot type an arbitrary number, and there is no separate scale for one page or for one monitor — it is the whole window at once, and the same value follows the window wherever you drag it.

The four switches only hide things. A hidden log console keeps writing to the file, hiding the credit row changes nothing about the credits themselves (it just takes them out of the sidebar), and with the assistant button off your conversations with the assistant stay where they were, on the Help page.

Hide to the tray is not autostart: strAImer still does not start together with Windows, so after the computer restarts you start it yourself (the guide "What strAImer is"). And there is no third choice for the ×, such as minimising to the taskbar: the usual minimise button of the window does that.

Not everything about the look of the window is on this page. The left menu is narrowed by its own button at the top of the panel — Collapse menu, the double arrow next to the logo — and the interface language and your base currency live on Settings → Localization. The switch that lets another computer on your network reach this one is not here either: it belongs to the local server, so it sits on Settings → Core.

Two things on this page travel: the theme and the choice under Window close button. Both are part of your settings, so a settings backup carries them to a second computer; the guide "Backup" is the one about that. The scale, the four switches, the height of the log console, the narrowed menu, and where you left the assistant panel or its window are remembered for this computer alone and start from their defaults on a new machine.