General

Settings, General holds the settings that describe the app itself rather than your account. All of them apply to this device only.

Appearance

Light, dark, or System. With System the app follows what your operating system is set to and switches along with it, including an automatic switch in the evening if you have that configured.

Zoom

Scales the whole interface in fixed steps: 80, 90, 100, 110, 125 and 150 percent. 100 percent matches the browser app exactly.

This is not a font size. Buttons, spacing and panels grow with the text, so nothing overlaps at a large step. Smaller steps fit more of a conversation and more of a file tree on screen, larger steps are mainly there for anyone who finds the default too small.

Performance mode

Saver turns off animations and effects, so the app stays smooth on less powerful computers. Normal keeps them. Automatic, the default, picks Saver when the app detects that the window is drawn without graphics acceleration, as on some Linux systems, and Normal otherwise. In Automatic the row shows which mode is currently in effect (Currently: …).

App language

The language of the interface: German or English. It changes labels, buttons and messages in the app. It does not change the language the assistant answers in, that is Answer language and it belongs to your account.

Launch at login

With the switch on, the app starts when you log in to your computer. It starts in the background, without a window, with only its icon in the tray (the menu bar on macOS). That way dictation and the other system-wide shortcuts work right after you log in. Open the window with Open DeutschlandGPT in the icon's menu, or by starting the app again. When you start the app yourself, it opens its window as usual.

Plain mode

Strips the interface back to the answer. The greeting on the start screen disappears, and so do the notices about thinking and about finished work steps. This one is an exception to the rule above: it belongs to your account, so it applies in the browser too.

Version

The installed version of the app, read only. Keep it at hand when you report a problem: two installations reporting the same behaviour on different versions are two different problems.

Updates

Shows the state of the automatic update check in words, plus a Check now button. Without this row the check would be invisible: either the banner appears or it does not, and every reason it might not look identical from outside.

Status	What it means
Up to date	This build is the newest one offered
Version x available	An update is ready. The button next to it downloads and installs it, then restarts the app
Managed by your IT department	Installed centrally through MSI, DEB or RPM. Updates come from your IT department, not from the app
Installed automatically	Your IT department has set the policy that installs new versions without asking. The row adds Your IT department installs new versions without asking.
Update server unreachable	The update host does not answer from this network
Update server blocked on this network	Something in between, usually a proxy or a filter, refuses the connection

For every state other than "up to date" and "available", the row also names the update host it asked. That is the fastest fact to read out to whoever is helping you, because two installations on the same version can still have been built against different update endpoints.