Omni Desktop Settings are about the app and this computer: your account, the device, trusted folders, shell and files, computer control, notifications, the app version and your xpander address.
Open Settings with Cmd+, or from the menu bar icon. Settings in the app are about the app and this computer. Everything about your organization (members, billing, API keys, policies) opens in your browser from Profile > More settings, so each setting has one place.
Settings in Omni Desktop, open on General. Shown with sample data.
Name: how this computer appears to you and your admins; it starts as the computer’s own name. Device ID and Connection: this computer’s id and its connection to your xpander. Forget this laptop removes it from your organization, clears its trusted folders and signs you out. Nothing on disk is deleted; signing in again registers it as a new device.
Trusted folders
The folders agents may use, and the access for each. See Trusted folders. Also shows Browser control with Ask each time when you allowed the browser Always.
Shell & files
Your own switches for files, shell commands, the shell’s network, browser control and moving work to the cloud and back, and where agents work first. See Your settings and the policy.
Computer control
Turn computer control on or off for this Mac, and the macOS permissions it needs. Shown on a Mac. See Computer control.
Open at login starts Omni when you log in. New chat shortcut opens a new chat from anywhere: Cmd+Shift+Space by default, or another shortcut, or Off.
Notifications
Notifications turns the app’s native notifications on or off (on by default). Save new files to this Mac automatically saves files an agent left only in the cloud into your folder for new files, without asking (on by default). Existing files are never replaced.
About
The installed version. Updates download on their own; when one is ready, About shows it with Restart to update.
The xpander this app uses. Change signs you out first, then connects this computer to the new address. Reads Set by your organization when your company manages it.
Sign out
Signs you out of the app on this computer. Your trusted folders stay.
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