Settings
The General pane, tab by tab — every switch and what it changes.
The menu-bar icon is the only way in — Settings… opens this window, on General.
General is the pane whose settings have no other home: everything on the panes below it belongs to a feature, and is explained where that feature is — Shortcuts, Snippets, Flows, Hyper key, and Pro for the License screen under About.
General
Four settings sit above the tabs, because each is a choice about the app rather than about a feature.
| Setting | Does |
|---|---|
| Start at login | Registers a login item with macOS. Shortcuts and the Hyper key only work while Lumi runs, so this is what makes them survive a restart. A launch at login opens no window; a launch you made opens this one. |
| Appearance | Light, Dark, or follow the system. |
| Accessibility | Shows whether the grant is in place, with a way straight to the pane that gives it. See Permissions. |
| Share usage data | Off unless you turn it on. Counts, never content — see Privacy. |
Below them, five tabs.
Commands
App shortcuts — combinations for Lumi itself rather than for anything you bound. One opens this window, one opens the flow editor, and each toggles: press it while that window is in front and it hides again. Change or clear them at any time.
Alerts
On-screen alerts decides how the Show alert action draws over whatever you are working in. An alert never takes focus, so the keys you press next still go where you were typing.
| Field | Options |
|---|---|
| Position | Top of the screen · Middle of the screen · Bottom of the screen |
| Size | Small · Medium · Large |
| Theme | Match this window · Dark · Light |
| Duration | In seconds |
A preview button draws one in the chosen style so you can see it before binding anything. A shortcut can override all of this on its own row — see Show alert.
Menus
Everything about the leader menu panel.
| Section | Does |
|---|---|
| Leader menus | How many seconds a half-typed menu stays open. A single menu can override it on its own row. |
| Panel layout | Grid lines the marks and names up in columns; Flowing packs as many as fit onto each line. |
| Columns | How wide the grid is, up to six. A ceiling, not an exact count. |
| Empty menus | Show steps that open empty menus — on by default, so a menu is visible while you build it. |
Explained in full under The grid and Menus with nothing in them.
Windows
For the Arrange window and Move to another display actions.
| Section | Does |
|---|---|
| Arranging windows | How long a window takes to travel to its new place. Zero puts it there at once. |
| Moving to another display | What happens when a window hangs off the edge of its display — Keep its size, or Trim it to fit. |
Advanced
| Section | Does |
|---|---|
| This network | Let flows reach this network. Off, a script node in a flow can still fetch from the internet once its own Use the network box is ticked — but addresses on this machine and this network stay refused. Turning this on lifts that. |
| Configuration | Your shortcuts live in a JSON file you can open or back up, with a button to reveal it in Finder. Reset to defaults is beside it and asks first: Shortcuts and snippets go. |
Why the network switch is off
Loopback and the local network are where everything else on your machine lives — a router's admin page, a database, a service with no password because it never expected a caller. That is why an imported flow cannot reach them until you say so.
