---
title: The menu and settings
description: Undertone's menu bar item for quick toggles, and its settings window for everything else.
url: https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/getting-started/the-menu
---

# The menu and settings
## The menu

Click the half-filled circle in the menu bar. The menu holds what you reach for often; everything else is in
**Settings…**.

| Item                   | What it does                                                                                                                                                                      |
|------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| The first line         | What is showing now, for example *Waves in Dusk, Halftone*.                                                                                                                       |
| **Shuffle**            | A new picture now. See [Shuffling](https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/pictures/shuffling).                                                                                      |
| **Pause**              | Leave the desktop alone: Undertone sets nothing until you turn it off.                                                                                                            |
| **Hide the Notch**     | A black menu bar strip the notch disappears into. See [Notch and corners](https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/desktop/notch-and-corners).                                        |
| **Round Corners**      | Black outside rounded corners, so a window tiled into a corner meets black.                                                                                                       |
| **Settings…**          | Everything else, below.                                                                                                                                                           |
| **Open Config File**   | Opens [`config.toml`](https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/reference/configuration), writing it first if there is none. Below it, the first problem in the file, if there is one. |
| **Check for Updates…** | Look for a new version now. See [Updates](https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/reference/updates).                                                                                |


## Settings

Each page shows the picture showing now at the top, drawn with the settings as they are, with its name, its effects
and a **Shuffle** button. Every change applies straight away and is written to the [config file](https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/reference/configuration).
![The Picture page: the preview, and every style drawn in the current tonality, two of them left out of shuffles](https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/images/shots/app/settings-dark.png)

| Page                   |                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
|------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Picture**            | Style and tonality: each shuffled among those you leave checked, or always the same one. Every style and tonality is drawn, so you choose by eye. See [Shuffling](https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/pictures/shuffling). |
| **Effects**            | The vignette, grain and the seven effects, each on or off with its own settings and a picture of it; and a random effect on each shuffle. See [Effects](https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/pictures/effects).             |
| **Schedule**           | Shuffle every hour, 3 hours or day, and on login and wake.                                                                                                                                                                  |
| **Screen**             | One picture on every space or a picture per space, hiding the notch, rounded corners.                                                                                                                                       |
| **Title**              | A centred [title and subtitle](https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/desktop/grain-and-title).                                                                                                                               |
| **Lock Screen Motion** | Your picture in motion while locked, and its speed, movement and settle. See [Lock screen motion](https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/desktop/lock-screen).                                                                |
| **General**            | Open at login, updates, and where the config file is.                                                                                                                                                                       |