Settings

Open settings with Ctrl+, (Cmd+, on macOS). Settings are grouped into a few sections.

Settings → General: appearance, contrast, zoom and editor options.

General

• Cursor style — bar, block, or underline, with an optional blink toggle.
• Font — family, size, and letter spacing for the terminal and editor.
• Scrollback buffer size.
• Quick Terminal global shortcut, height, and hide-on-focus-loss behavior.

AI

Choose your provider and paste an API key, or point Nexis at a local endpoint for offline models. See AI providers. Keys are stored through the OS keychain, not in Nexis settings files.

Appearance

Pick a theme, set an icon theme, and optionally add a background image with adjustable opacity and blur.

Features

Choose among seven presets or toggle the nine packs individually. Disabling a pack hides its tools without uninstalling anything. See Workbench & feature packs.

Settings → Features.

Privacy

Command recording is off by default. When enabled, the Privacy section shows the local ledger’s record and output size, controls retention caps, and can forget the last 15 minutes, hour, day, or the entire open workspace.

Editor

• Format on save and per-language formatter selection.
• Vim mode toggle.
• Word wrap default.
• Inline autocomplete provider and model.

Environment awareness

Nexis surfaces the state of your workspace in the status bar:

• Container-aware — detects .devcontainer, docker-compose.yml, and Dockerfile, and shows a status-bar pill.
• Python environment awareness — auto-detects virtualenvs, conda, and pyproject.toml, with quick-switch from the status bar.

Keyboard shortcuts

Browse and reference all shortcuts with Ctrl+K. The full list is on the keyboard shortcuts page.