# 2.3.1 Nicotine+ Settings: Interface

Interface settings allows you to configure some Interface option if you need to

## Close buttons on tabs

If you want to have close buttons on tabs

Close-buttons on chat room tabs |  | Close-buttons on private chat tabs

- default is checked

## Show Buttons in Transfer Tabs

if you want GTK icons on buttons in down/upload tabs

- default is checked

## Display Tray Icon

Allows you to show Tray Icon when Nicotine+ is running.

- default is checked

## Chat font

allows you to configure font-family, style and size used in Nicotine+ chat/private tabs

- default is GTK default.

## Decimal seperator

## Icon and Sound Themes Directory

### Icon Theme Directory

Select a directory with images and Nicotine+ will use it for online/offline/away/hilite indication.

- default is empty

## Sound notification

Sound notification, when someone mentions your username
in public chatroom or PM's you. 2 different sounds are used.
If you want use sound notification, you need to meet Nicotine+ Optional Dependencies

### Enable Sound Effect

if you don't want to use sound notification, you can uncheck it.

- default is checked

### Sound Effect command

choose between play -q or ogg123 -q

- default is play -q

### Sound Effects Directory

allows you to choose your own sound for use of sound notification.

## Chat colors

which color messages get displayed in Chat room or Private chat
Chat color settings are only for your comfort, other users won't see any of you configs.

- Remote text is the messages you get to see, when something is wrong with files you're downloading
- default is empty
  - It shows up like Remote: [message]
    - Remote: User limit of xx megabytes exceeded
    - Remote: File error

- Local text are your messages, you see them in Chat room and Private chat sessions
- default is BLUE

- /me text is used to state what you're doing instead of talking
- default is FORREST GREEN
  - "/me is going to eat something" shows up as "[time][user] is going to eat something"
  - 01:07:01 * [user] is testing
  - 21:06:55 * [user] checks timestamps and stops expecting an answer

- Highlighted text is a message that includes your username
- default is red
  - this occurs when somebody is talking to you only, in a busy chatroom

## Search colors

To make searching and downloading files easier, you can choose to color your search results

- Immediate download shows black
- default is empty

- With queue downloads grey
- default is GREY

more info about Search results
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