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App Settings > Terminal & Input > Selection & clipboard > Auto Copy
Selection (`autoCopySelection`, per-device, default OFF). With it on,
highlighting text in the terminal copies it: mouse drag, double-click
word, triple-click line, and the phone long-press selection. Ctrl+C is
untouched and still copies on demand.
Three things decide the shape of it:
* It fires at the END of a gesture, never in onSelectionChange. That
callback runs for every cell a drag crosses, so copying there would be
one clipboard write per mouse move. It only arms a pending flag; a
document-level mouseup listener flushes, and the touch path calls the
flush itself because it preventDefaults its touchend and no mouseup
ever arrives there.
* The flush is synchronous inside the handler, because both clipboard
paths need user activation: Firefox gates navigator.clipboard
.writeText on it, and execCommand('copy'), the fallback the plain-HTTP
LAN install lands on, has to run in the gesture's own task. A timer or
a wait for onSelectionChange loses it, invisibly in Chrome.
* It deliberately does NOT do what copyTerminalSelection() does. That
one clears the selection (so a second Ctrl+C is an interrupt) and
focuses the terminal. Clearing would make text vanish under the cursor
that just highlighted it, and focusing opens the on-screen keyboard
over it on a phone. Focus is instead restored to whatever held it,
which only matters for the execCommand fallback.
Guards are pure in decideAutoCopy() (constants.js): off, blank or
whitespace-only text, and a 1M-char cap, since a drag off the top of the
viewport autoscrolls and one gesture can sweep the whole 50k-line
scrollback. Past the cap the copy is refused rather than truncated, with
a toast pointing at Ctrl+C.
Feedback is silent on success except once per page load, so a feature
that works by doing nothing visible can still be told from a dead
toggle; failures and refusals toast, throttled to 10s.
Per-device on both counts the settings rule requires: in `displayKeys`
and absent from the .strict() SettingsUpdateSchema, because clipboard
access differs by device and by origin.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Settings Reference
Two settings surfaces, and the rule that explains why a setting you changed on your laptop did not follow you to your phone.
| Surface | Scope | Opened from |
|---|---|---|
| App Settings | Global, this Codeman install. | The header gear. |
| Session Options | One session. | The session's tab. |
App Settings is a single scrolling document with a rail acting as a table of contents; clicking a rail entry scrolls rather than switching. Session Options genuinely switches panels.
Per-device versus synced
Some settings live on the server and follow you to every device. Others are stored in the browser and stay put. This is deliberate, not an oversight: your phone wants a different font size, a different keyboard bar, and a different set of header buttons than your desktop.
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Per-device, local | Skin, WebGL renderer, local echo, CJK input, extended keyboard bar, File Viewer and Cron header buttons. Never sent to the server at all. |
| Per-device policy | Most show* toggles, plan usage chip, language. Stored server-side, but a device only takes the server value when it has no local one of its own. |
| Synced | Models, effort, CLI options, notification preferences, voice settings, display name, the agent skill and approvals toggles. |
The practical rule: appearance and input are per device, behaviour is shared. If a change did not follow you, it is in one of the first two rows, and you change it again on that device.
App Settings
Updates
Current version, a manual check, and the in-app updater. Covers git-clone installs supervised by systemd or launchd; npm installs report as non-updatable. See Running As A Service.
Terminal & Input
| Setting | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Local Echo | On for touch devices | Paints keystrokes locally and flushes on Enter. See Input And Voice. |
| CJK Input | Off | IME composition through a dedicated text field. |
| Extended Keyboard Bar | Per device | Which accessory bar phones get. Shell sessions override it while they are active. |
| Wheel Scrolls Local History | Off | Keeps the wheel on the local buffer instead of forwarding it to the CLI. |
| Auto Copy Selection | Off | Copies highlighted terminal text to the clipboard the moment you finish selecting it. Ctrl+C still copies on demand. |
| WebGL Renderer | On | With a GPU-stall watchdog that falls back to DOM rendering. |
| Gesture Control | Off | Camera hand tracking. Also needs CODEMAN_GESTURE=1 on the server. |
Header & Panels
Chips for every optional header control, with a live preview of the resulting header:
Run, Font Size, System Stats, Redraw Terminal, Response Viewer, Away Digest, Session Manager, Attachments, File Viewer, Multi-monitor, Plan Usage, Lifecycle Log, Monitor, Project Insights, File Browser, Subagents, Approvals Inbox, Read My Mind, Ultracode Agents, Ultracode Windows, Cron.
Most default to off. The stock desktop header is system stats, File Viewer, and the gear. New header controls never appear on phones.
This section also holds background-agent tracking, including whether to track agents for every session or only the active tab.
Appearance
| Setting | Notes |
|---|---|
| Skin | Theme palettes, light ones included. Applied before first paint, so no flash of the wrong theme. |
| Entrance Animations | Per-surface animation styles for tabs, terminals, windows, and lineage lines. All default to the legacy no-animation behaviour. |
| Display Name | Your name in the UI. Cosmetic only; it never renames the package, CLI, API, or storage. |
| Interface Language | English or Simplified Chinese. Per device. |
| Session List Layout | Header tab strip (default) or a collapsible left sidebar. See The Dashboard. |
| Tall Tabs | Taller tab strip. |
| Pop-out Button on Tabs | Adds the detach control to tabs, with a per-tab override. |
| Spawn Lineage Lines | Arcs from a parent tab to sessions it spawned. Desktop only, on by default. |
| Overview Home Screen | The phone home screen. On by default. |
Models
Claude model cards, the 1M context window switch, and the thinking effort segment. The cards and the switch compose into one model choice, so there is no separate "which one wins" question.
Model and effort are both soft defaults: the model is written into the case's
.claude/settings.local.json and effort is passed at start, so /model and /effort
inside a session override them at any time.
Agents & CLIs
| Setting | Notes |
|---|---|
| Startup Mode | Claude's permission mode for new sessions. Default skips prompts; auto uses Anthropic's classifier-guarded mode; normal prompts; or give an explicit allowed-tools list. |
| Allowed Tools | The list used by the explicit mode. |
| Ralph / Todo Tracker | Enables the Ralph loop surfaces. |
| Agent Teams | Experimental teams. Also needs the CLI's own environment flag. |
| Codeman Agent Skill | Injects the agent skill into new Claude sessions per case. Off by default. See Driving Codeman From An Agent. |
| Remote auto-reconnect | Reattaches dropped remote SSH sessions. On by default. |
| Nice priority / value | Runs agent processes at a lower CPU priority. |
| Bypass approvals and sandbox | Pi's project trust. Read Agent CLIs before enabling. |
| Animated status effects | Cosmetic. |
Notifications
Master toggle, browser notifications, push subscription, audio alerts, and the idle threshold that decides when a quiet session counts as needing you. See Notifications And Approvals.
Voice
Active provider and the engine behind it, insert mode, language, domain keywords to bias recognition, the Deepgram API key, and the opt-in switch for transcribing through this server's Claude login, with its live credential status. See Input And Voice.
Shortcuts
Rebinding for the shortcut registry. See Keyboard Shortcuts.
System
CLAUDE.md template for new cases, default working directory, the image watcher, and
Cloudflare tunnel controls including the tunnel and upload URLs. In multi-user mode, the
Users administration entry is injected here.
Session Options
Per session, from the tab.
| Panel | Contains |
|---|---|
| Respawn | Auto-resume on usage limit, the respawn cycle configuration, presets, duration. See Keeping Agents Running. |
| Session | Name, working directory, environment overrides, per-tab pop-out override. |
| Ralph / Todo | Loop configuration, iteration and todo caps, circuit breaker reset. See Autonomous Loops. |
| Summary | What this session has done: tokens, activity, run summary. |
Panels that only make sense for Claude are hidden for other run modes rather than shown and failing.
Environment variables
Some things are configured before the server starts, not in the UI:
| Variable | Effect |
|---|---|
CODEMAN_PORT |
Listen port. |
CODEMAN_HOST |
Bind address. Loopback by default. |
CODEMAN_PASSWORD / CODEMAN_USERNAME |
HTTP Basic credentials. Username defaults to admin. |
CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS |
Extra Host and Origin allowlist entries for a reverse proxy. |
CODEMAN_INSTANCE |
Scopes the data directory and tmux socket together. Required for a second instance. |
CODEMAN_MULTIUSER |
Enables multi-user mode. |
CODEMAN_GESTURE |
Makes gesture control available to be enabled. |
CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS |
Lets in-container hooks reach the host on a loopback bind. |
CODEMAN_FILE_PICKER_ROOTS |
Extra roots for the path picker. |
CODEMAN_ALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_NETWORK |
Acknowledges exposing the server with no password. |
Gotchas
- A setting that did not sync is per device. Change it again on that device.
- The plan usage chip and its telemetry exporter are one setting. Enabling the chip without the exporter would leave it blank forever, so it is deliberately not separable.
- Toggling a header button does nothing on a phone. Phones deliberately ignore most of the header chips.
- Enabling a feature does not retroactively configure existing sessions. The agent skill injection, for instance, applies at session creation.
Read next
- The Dashboard - what each control does once visible.
- Keeping Agents Running - the Respawn panel in depth.
- Agent CLIs - model, effort, and permission modes.