Appearance

Customize endOS themes, icons, colors, wallpaper, syntax highlighting, and Terminal presentation.

Use Settings to control how endOS looks, from desktop-wide themes and wallpaper to Terminal fonts, colors, and layered backgrounds.

Open appearance settings

What you want to change	Settings section
Theme presets, icons, colors, and syntax highlighting	Theme
Desktop background	Wallpaper
Terminal fonts, colors, glass, and background	Terminal

Your wallpaper selection is stored as part of the active theme preset.

Theme

The Theme section lets you customize the desktop's appearance with complete presets or individual colors and palettes.

Choose and manage a preset

The Preset control switches between built-in and custom appearance packs. The built-in presets are:

Disco
Evergreen
SF
NYC
Liquid Metal
Potato
Bloom
9PM
9AM

You can create a custom preset or delete one you no longer need. When a custom preset is active, use Custom preset name to rename it. Wallpaper in preset shows its wallpaper, and Edit wallpaper opens the Wallpaper section.

Style app icons

Control	What it changes
Icon backgrounds	Adds a rounded-square background behind app icons.
Tinted app icons	Uses one icon-background color when icon backgrounds are on.
Tint color	Opens a detail color picker for the tint. A reset control is also available.

Set custom colors

The active custom preset provides detail pickers for:

Surface
Surface Secondary
Component Accent
Background Accent
Text Main
Text Inverted

Configure text rendering

Use Syntax highlighting to choose Adaptive or Manual (Shiki) rendering. When you select Manual, Manual theme provides the full Shiki theme list. The preview shows live TypeScript and Markdown samples so you can review the result before using it elsewhere.

Wallpaper

The Wallpaper section lets you start from a preset or build a solid, gradient, image, or shader background.

At the top of the section, the theme link shows the active theme preset name. Choose Open to return to Theme.

Image wallpapers

Under Presets, choose a built-in photo preset or a custom image. Use Choose from files to select your own image.

For an image wallpaper, Image Filters offers:

Original
Paper
Fluted Glass
Water
Dithering
Heatmap

Each filter has a Customize control for its shader parameters and the next preset.

Animated wallpapers

The Animated collection includes:

Liquid Metal
Gradient
Warp
Dithering
Grain
Neuro Wave

Each animated option also provides Customize.

Solid and gradient wallpapers

Under Custom, choose:

Solid to open the Solid color picker.
Gradient to set Start and End colors and an Angle from 0–360°.

The available wallpaper kinds are image, solid, gradient, and shader.

Terminal

The Terminal section controls tabs, fonts, color profiles, glass effects, and layered backgrounds.

Text, cursor, and colors

Control	Options or range
Color profile	Adaptive (endOS) or Custom
Cursor style	Block, Underline, or Bar
Cursor blink	On or off
Custom colors	Foreground, Cursor, Selection, and Selection opacity from 8–100%; prompt colors for User/Host, Directory, and Prompt symbol
Font size	11–24px
Line height	1.00–2.00

Glass and background

Control	Options or range
Glass tint	0–100%
Glass blur	0–40px
Follow desktop wallpaper	On uses the desktop wallpaper; off enables a custom Terminal background.

When Follow desktop wallpaper is on, Source previews the current wallpaper. When it is off, the custom background controls provide the same preset, filter, animated, solid, and gradient choices available in Wallpaper.