10.6 · Settings and Preferences

UI Settings

Window chrome, theme, tray behaviour, and startup preferences.

Settings

Setting	Default	Description	UI location
`StartMinimized`	`false`	Launch with the main window hidden to the tray	Settings → UI
`StartWithWindows`	`false`	Reserved — see note below	Settings → UI (disabled)
`MinimizeToTray`	`true`	Close button and minimise button hide to the tray instead of exiting / taskbar-minimising	Settings → UI
`ShowNotifications`	`true`	Show Windows toast notifications for completed actions	Settings → UI
`Theme`	`"Dark"`	UI theme. `Dark` or `Light`	Settings → UI
`DockToBottom`	`false`	Start in docked pill mode instead of the full toolbar	Settings → UI

Notes

Theme is swapped live — no restart is needed. The tray icon and all open windows repaint immediately.
DockToBottom is the persisted preference. A transient IsDocked runtime flag tracks the current state; the app may temporarily undock (for example, when you open Settings) without overwriting your preference. See 9 — Dock Pill and System Tray.
When StartMinimized and DockToBottom are both on, the dock pill is also hidden at launch — Tex is visible only from the tray.

StartWithWindows

StartWithWindows is reserved for a future build. The toggle appears in the Settings window but currently does not write to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Enabling it has no effect — Tex will not auto-start until this is wired up.

Tip

Tip — To auto-start Tex today, create a shortcut to Tex.Wpf.exe in shell:startup yourself. Consider turning on StartMinimized so the window does not steal focus at login.

Tip

Warning — Turning MinimizeToTray off makes the close button exit Tex fully, including unregistering global hotkeys. Use StartMinimized if you want tray-only operation.