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url: /usage-guides/settings/interface.md
description: >-
  Customize the rotki interface, including language, theme, animations, balance
  refresh frequency, and blockchain explorer links used across the app.
---

# Interface Settings

## Interface-only Settings

![Customizing the app's interface only settings](/images/usage-guides/settings/interface/overview.webp)

### Language

Set the language used in the app. This feature is experimental and may not work as expected for some languages. Help us speed up the translation process by contributing [here](/contribution-guides/contribute-as-developer#add-a-new-language-or-translation).

### Animation Effect

Reduce animation effects to improve performance. This affects animation quality but optimizes resource usage.

### Persist Table Sorting

Save your table sorting preferences so they persist when you navigate away and return to the page.

### Data Scrambling

Enable data scrambling to randomize amounts, dates, and other data for privacy in screenshots. This setting does not persist across sessions.

### Persist Privacy and Scramble Mode Settings

When enabled, privacy mode and scramble settings are preserved across sessions. When disabled, these settings reset to defaults upon login.

### Automatic Balance Refresh

Enable or disable automatic balance refresh and set the refresh interval. Disabled by default due to potential slow queries and rate limits.

### Periodic Status Query

Set the frequency of backend data updates. Default is 5 seconds.

### Blockchain Explorer Customization

Customize which explorer is used for transaction and address links.

### Progress Query Indicator on Dashboard

Configure the history query progress indicator shown on the dashboard. You can set the minimum out-of-sync period (in hours) before the indicator appears, the dismissal threshold (in hours) controlling how long the indicator stays hidden after being dismissed, and reset the dismissal status to show all indicators again.

### Graph Settings

#### Dashboard Graph Default Timeframe

Set the default timeframe for the dashboard graph, which will be pre-selected upon login.

#### Graph Basis

Configure whether the graph y-axis starts at 0 or the minimum amount for the period.

### Alias Name for Addresses

Shown in the app as **Blockchain address aliases**. Enable or disable alias names for blockchain
addresses, and change the order the sources are resolved in. The first source that has a name for an
address wins. In priority order the defaults are `Private address book`, `Blockchain account labels`,
`Global address book`, `Ethereum tokens`, `Hardcoded mappings`, `ENS names` and `GNS names (.gwei)`.

![The address alias priority list](/images/usage-guides/settings/interface/alias_priority.webp)

`GNS names (.gwei)` was added in 1.44 and sits last by default, so a
[Gwei Name Service](https://gwei.domains) name is used only where nothing higher, ENS included, has
one. Drag it above `ENS names` to prefer it, or remove it from the list to ignore GNS entirely.
Avatars follow the same priority.

### Newly Detected Tokens

Configure how newly detected tokens are stored and pruned. You can set the maximum number of tokens to keep (oldest tokens exceeding this limit are pruned) and the retention period in days (tokens older than this are automatically removed).

### Theme Customization \[Premium]

Premium users can customize colors for light or dark mode.

## Disabling the Tray Icon

Disable the application tray icon by clicking the `View` menu entry in the application menu bar. Select `Display Tray Icon` to enable/disable the tray icon.