Preferences
Adjust your preferences to help you move faster and personalize your workflow.
General
The general preferences offer high-level adjustments for how you want things to appear in Linear.
Default home view
This setting lets you set the default view that opens whenever you close or log out of Linear and re-open/re-login. To change your default home view, open the dropdown menu to select from any of the default view options.
Display full names
Select whether you want to see your team members’ full names or the username they have personalized in their Profile section.
First day of the week
Personalize how you want your calendars to display your weeks.
Convert text emoticons into emojis
Turn this toggle on to speed up emoji input.
Convert comment on…
Choose whether Cmd/Ctrl+Enter or Enter will be used to submit comments.
Interface and theme
Adjust your font size, opt for a pointer cursor when hovering over interactive elements, and/or show links as underlined text.
Choose from our presets or create your own custom theme for your workspace. Select several Light or Dark modes as a preference or choose system preference if you’d like the app to switch based on your computer settings.
You can also build your own custom theme. Find and use over 70 themes (and counting!) on the open source site linear.style, where you can click to copy and use them.
Desktop application
Choose whether to attempt to open Linear URLs in the desktop app.
Select whether you want notification badges on your desktop app icon, or remove them to avoid the noise.
Choose whether to enable spell check.
Automations and workflows
Auto-assign to self
Optionally, enable an automation to always assign issues you create to yourself. You can also configure whether you should be auto-assigned to issues you move to a started status.
If you don’t turn these on, you can always toggle the Create more button or use Cmd/Ctrl Shift Enter when creating issues to create more with the same assignee. We don’t have a setting to auto-assign issues to specific users. The best way to accomplish that workflow is to create templates with the assignee field set to a specific user.
On move to started status, assign to yourself
When you move unassigned issues to started, it will automatically assign to you.
For git-related preferences — including Git attachment format and on-branch-copy behaviors — see the Code & Reviews account settings page.
