Configuration

Opening Settings#

Press ⌘, (Command + comma) or pick Seiz ▸ Settings from the menu bar. The Settings window has ten tabs across the top — General, Appearance, Layout, Navigation, Sidebar, Tags, Preview, AI, Remote & Sync, and Permissions.

Below is a tour of what each tab controls and the few settings that are worth knowing about specifically.

General#

The catch-all tab: app theme (System / Light / Dark), sound effects, and the keyboard shortcut registry. Every shortcut listed in the Keyboard Shortcuts page is editable here — click a binding, press a new key combo, or use the small reset button to revert to the default.

Appearance#

Theme settings. The default follows your system Light/Dark preference; you can override it with one of the bundled themes. Reader font size (used for the Markdown preview in the Inspector) lives here too.

Layout#

Window structure controls:

• Pane layout — Single, Dual, Triple, or Quad.
• Split orientation — horizontal (side by side) or vertical (stacked).
• Inspector enabled — show or hide the preview panel by default.
• Restore last workspace on launch — when on, Seiz reopens the workspace you had active when you quit.
• Show columns — toggle Size, Kind, Date Modified, Date Created columns in List view.
• Per-folder view presets — when on (default), each folder remembers its own view mode and sort.

Navigation#

How Seiz handles file operations and search:

• Conflict resolution — what happens when you copy/move a file with a name that already exists. Default is “Always ask,” with auto-options for Keep newest, Keep largest, or Keep both.
• Preferred terminal — which app to launch for “Open Terminal Here” (Terminal, iTerm, Warp, Alacritty, or Kitty).
• Show hidden files — same toggle as ⌘⇧. but persisted.
• Folders on top — sort folders before files regardless of sort field.
• Fuzzy / Regex search — pick the matching mode for the inline filter bar.
• Gesture navigation — two-finger swipes on a trackpad navigate back/forward through history.
• Root operations — allow file operations on system-protected paths. Off by default; only turn on if you really know what you're doing.

Sidebar#

Toggle which built-in items appear in the sidebar Favorites section: Recents, Applications, Desktop, Documents, Downloads (on by default); Movies, Music, Pictures, Home (off by default — turn them on if you use them often). The Locations section toggles control whether internal disks, external drives, removable media, and Bonjour network computers appear. See Sidebar for the full breakdown.

Tags#

Manage which macOS tags appear in the sidebar and in what order. Hide tags you never use to declutter the list. New tags you create through the right-click menu show up here automatically.

Preview#

Inspector behavior: auto-play video and audio when you select them, toggleable Markdown rendering, and the Checksums panel (off by default — turn on if you regularly verify file hashes).

AI#

Master toggle for the Local AI features (off by default), individual sub-toggles for Smart Rename, Summaries, Semantic Search, and Smart Grouping, plus the Ollama endpoint configuration. See Local AI for what each feature does and what it requires.

Remote & Sync#

Master toggles for sync (off by default) and the optional background sync agent (which keeps syncing even when Seiz is quit). Default conflict strategy for new sync rules, bandwidth limit (in MB/s; 0 means unlimited), and how long to keep sync log entries. Auto-reconnect for remote sessions is on by default. See Remote & Sync for what these enable.

Permissions#

Status overview of macOS permissions Seiz can request: Full Disk Access (needed for complete App Cleaner scans), Accessibility, and any others required for specific features. Each one shows as Granted, Denied, or Not Requested, with a button that takes you straight to the right pane in System Settings.

Next Steps#

• Keyboard Shortcuts — the full shortcut list, every entry of which is editable in General settings.
• Sidebar — what each setting in the Sidebar tab actually changes.
• Local AI — when to flip the AI master toggle on, and what each feature needs to work.