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64 lines
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# Profile preferences
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A user's profile preferences page allows the user to customize various aspects
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of GitLab to their liking.
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To navigate to your profile's preferences, click your avatar icon in the top
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right corner and select **Settings**. From there on, choose the **Preferences**
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tab.
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## Syntax highlighting theme
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>**Note:**
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GitLab uses the [rouge Ruby library][rouge] for syntax highlighting. For a
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list of supported languages visit the rouge website.
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Changing this setting allows you to customize the color theme when viewing any
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syntax highlighted code on GitLab.
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The default one is **White**, and you can choose among 5 different colors:
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- White
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- Dark
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- Solarized light
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- Solarized dark
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- Monokai
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## Behavior
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The following settings allow you to customize the behavior of GitLab's layout
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and default views of your dashboard and the projects' landing pages.
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### Layout width
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GitLab can be set up to use different widths depending on your liking. Choose
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between the fixed (max. 1200px) and the fluid (100%) application layout.
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### Default dashboard
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For users who have access to a large number of projects but only keep up with a
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select few, the amount of activity on the default Dashboard page can be
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overwhelming. Changing this setting allows you to redefine what your default
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dashboard will be.
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You have 6 options here that you can use for your default dashboard view:
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- Your projects (default)
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- Starred projects
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- Your projects' activity
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- Starred projects' activity
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- Your groups
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- Your [Todos]
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### Default project view
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The default project view settings allows you to choose what content you want to
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see on a project's landing page.
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You can choose between 2 options:
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- Show the files and the readme (default)
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- Show the project's activity
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[rouge]: http://rouge.jneen.net/ "Rouge website"
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[todos]: ../../workflow/todos.md
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