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title: "Customize Lilo"
description: "Change Lilo's appearance and sidebar, pick a keyboard shortcut preset or record your own shortcuts, and make the browser fit the way you work."
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This guide shows you how to change how Lilo looks, where its tabs and address sit, how pages are sized, and which keys do what. Open Settings with <kbd>⌘,</kbd> and type in **Search settings** to jump to any setting. Every setting with its description is in the [settings reference](/reference/settings), and every default shortcut in the [keyboard shortcuts reference](/reference/keyboard-shortcuts).

## Change the appearance

1. **Open the Appearance settings**

    Choose **Lilo > Settings…**, then **Appearance**.

2. **Pick a theme**

    Under **Theme**, choose **System**, **Light** or **Dark**. **System** follows your Mac.

3. **Pick an app icon**

    Under **App icon**, choose one of the icons for the Dock. Only **Classic** follows the macOS dark, tinted and clear icon styles. **Seasonal icon**, on by default, switches to a festive icon around holidays like Halloween.

To change the language of Lilo's interface, use **Language** in **Settings > General**. Menus and dialogs switch when Lilo restarts.

## Arrange tabs and the address bar

In **Settings > Appearance**, under **Layout**:

- **Tabs** places your tabs, Spaces and favorites on the **Left**, **Right**, **Top** or **Bottom** of the window. You can also drag the sidebar to another edge.
- **Address** shows the address **With the tabs**, **Above the page**, or keeps it **Hidden**. With the address hidden, use the [command bar](/guides/command-bar) to enter an address.
- **Hide Space names** shows each Space as its icon alone in the bottom bar, even when there is room for its name.

To get more room for the page, choose **View > Hide Sidebar** (<kbd>⇧⌘S</kbd>) or **View > Hide Toolbar** (<kbd>⌥⌘T</kbd>).

## Size pages and text

In **Settings > Appearance**, under **Pages**:

- **Default zoom** sets the size of pages you haven't zoomed yourself, from 75% to 150%. Zoom a single site with <kbd>⌘=</kbd> and <kbd>⌘-</kbd>, and press <kbd>⌘0</kbd> for its actual size. Lilo remembers the zoom of each site.
- **Minimum font size** keeps page text from rendering smaller than the size you pick, from 9 to 24 points, or **None**.
- **Full refresh rate**, on by default, lets pages animate and scroll at your display's full rate, which uses more battery. New tabs follow the setting; open tabs change when Lilo restarts.

A site's zoom level is listed, and can be reset, in **Settings > Privacy > Settings by site**.

## Pick a shortcut preset

Lilo comes with two sets of shortcuts: its own, and one based on Arc's.

1. **Open the shortcuts**

    Choose **Help > Keyboard Shortcuts** (<kbd>⌘/</kbd>), or go to **Settings > General** and click **Keyboard shortcuts**.

2. **Choose a preset**

    Next to **Preset**, click **Lilo** or **Arc**.

A preset replaces every shortcut you changed. The **Arc** preset uses Arc's keys where Lilo has the same action: for example, Command-S toggles the sidebar, Command-D pins a tab, and Shift-Command-J opens Downloads.

On the same page, **Control-Tab switches tabs in** chooses what <kbd>⌃⇥</kbd> does: **Recent Order** shows your last tabs, from every Space, until you release Control; **Sidebar Order** follows the sidebar.

## Rebind a shortcut

1. **Find the action**

    In **Help > Keyboard Shortcuts**, type in **Search shortcuts**. You can search by name or by keys. Actions are grouped by the menu they sit in.

2. **Record new keys**

    Click the action's shortcut, then press the new keys. Press <kbd>Esc</kbd> to cancel, or Delete to leave the action without a shortcut.

3. **Resolve a conflict**

    If another action already uses those keys, Lilo names it ("… is already used by …"). Click **Replace** to move the keys to this action, or **Cancel**.

Click **Reset** next to a changed shortcut to restore its default, or **Reset All** to restore every default. Several actions, such as **Show Reader**, **Translate Page** and **Picture in Picture**, have no default shortcut: give them one here.

Shortcuts you set for Lilo in **System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts** take precedence. Lilo reads them when it builds its menus, at launch: after you change one there, quit and reopen Lilo to see it on the shortcuts page.