# Your preferences

> Settings: profile, account and plan; language, chat, dice, notifications, audio and video; and troubleshooting, with search.

Page: https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/comecando/configuracoes/

Click **Settings**, at the bottom of the bar on the left (on a phone, under **More**). The sections are in three groups: **Account**, **Preferences** and **Support**. Plugins are not here: they belong to each room and live in **Room settings → Plugins** (see [Room plugins and tables](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/mestres/plugins/)).

*Screenshot:* Settings on the General section: on the left, your card, the search and the sections in three groups; on the right, the language, the start page, rooms for adults and distances, one per row.

- **Search settings**, at the top of the bar: type what you are looking for (“sound”, “dice”, “language”) and click the result. The section opens and the row is highlighted for a moment.
- **Where it is saved:** each section says at the top. **Saved to your account** (Profile, Account and security, and Plan) applies everywhere. **Saved on this computer** (the preferences) stays in this browser, or on this computer, in the app: on a new computer, they start at their defaults.
- **Preferences save right away**, with a “Preference saved” notice. At the end of each preferences section, **Restore the defaults for…** resets only that section (RPG Desk asks first).

*Screenshot:* The settings search with the word sound: the results show each sound and where it lives, such as Notifications › Sounds.

## Profile

Your picture and what others see on your profile, with the **How others see you** preview beside it. When you change a text, the **Discard** / **Save profile** bar shows up. See [Profile, friends and conversations](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/comecando/perfil-e-amigos/).

*Screenshot:* The Profile section: the avatar with Choose image, the About, Likes to play and Usually plays fields and, beside them, the preview of how others see the profile.

## Account and security

The account name, since when it exists, **Change password** (asks for the current password and the new one twice), **Privacy** and, in the **Danger zone**, **Cancel the account…**.

- **Get messages from people who aren’t your friends:** on, anyone can send you a direct message (the GM of a table, someone in the room you are in). Off, only your friends and the people you wrote to can. It applies right away, on any computer. See [Chatting with people who aren’t your friends](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/comecando/perfil-e-amigos/#chatting-with-people-who-arent-your-friends).

*Screenshot:* The Account and security section: the account name, member since, the password with Change password and the danger zone with Cancel the account.

> **Cancel the account**
>
> Deletes your account, the rooms you created, your messages, your files and your friends. There is no going back: RPG Desk asks for your password first, right on the row.

## Plan

Your plan and until when it is valid, the space used, the largest file and every plan side by side. See [Plans and space](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/comecando/planos/).

*Screenshot:* The Plan section: the account's plan, the space used, the largest file and the table of the four plans.

## General

- **App:** the **Language** and **When signing in, open** (**Home** or **Rooms**).
- **Explore:** **Rooms for adults (18+)**: **Hide** (the default) or **Show with a warning**.
- **Virtual table:** **Distances** on the ruler and token movement: the scene’s unit, meters, feet or both (“6 m (20 ft)”). It only changes what you see.

## Chat

*Screenshot:* The Chat section: the live preview with two sample lines, the text size, the line spacing and the message times.

- **Live preview:** at the top, two sample lines change right away with what you pick below.
- **Reading:** **Text size**, **Line spacing** and **Show message times**.
- **Message formatting:** how **other people’s** text markup looks to you: headings with `#`, separators with `---`, the emoji from `:)` and `:sorriso:`, and the drop cap with `{L}`.
- **In the room:** **Post a chat notice when the players’ bars change**.
- **Friends & chat panel:** **Show the Friends & chat panel**. Turned off, the panel disappears from the corner of every screen, along with the chat windows (see [Profile, friends and conversations](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/comecando/perfil-e-amigos/)). Messages from friends still arrive and are kept; notices follow **Notifications**.

## Dice

*Screenshot:* The Dice section: the look with the d20 preview, Use my colors and the dice and number colors; the display options; and the special effects with Test.

- **Your dice’s look:** **Use my colors**, the dice color and the number color (the swatches or another color), with the d20 preview. Others see your dice in these colors.
- **Display:** **Show 3D dice on rolls**, **Show special dice effects** and the **No-lighting mode**, for when the 3D dice are slow or glitchy.
- **Special effects:** the effects that go with your rolls, and **Test** to see each one. See [Dice](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/mesa/dados/#customize-your-dice).

Where the dice numbers come from is a room rule, picked by the game master: see [Game rules](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/mestres/regras-de-jogo/#the-dice).

## Notifications

*Screenshot:* The Notifications section: the overall volume, the sounds with Listen and a switch each, and the direct message notices.

- If system notifications are off for RPG Desk, a notice at the top asks for permission (**Allow notifications**) or explains how to allow them in the browser.
- **Sounds:** the **Overall volume** and what plays a sound (direct message, @ mention, private conversation in the room, being kicked, rolls and scene sounds, such as doors). **Listen** plays the sample sound.
- **Notices:** **Notify new direct messages** (**Always**, **In the background** or **Never**) and **Flash the window title** when something arrives while RPG Desk is in the background.

## Audio and video

*Screenshot:* The Audio and video section: the quick test with the camera preview and the microphone bar, the devices (microphone, camera and audio output) and the options for joining the call.

- **Quick test:** **Turn the preview on** shows your camera, and **Test the microphone** moves the bar when you speak.
- **Devices:** the **Microphone**, the **Camera** and the **Audio output** (the headphones or speaker for the call’s voices; **Listen** plays a test sound). Some browsers, such as Safari, do not let you pick the output: the row does not show.
- **When joining the call:** join with the microphone and with the camera on. See [Voice and video](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/mesa/voz/).

## Troubleshooting

*Screenshot:* The Troubleshooting section: the error log with Download the log, the shortcut for slow 3D dice and, in Start over, restore all preferences and forget the room arrangements.

- **Diagnostics:** **Download the log** of errors, to send to whoever runs the server when something goes wrong; and, if the 3D dice are slow, **Go to Dice** takes you to the no-lighting mode.
- **Start over:** **Restore all preferences** on this computer (the language stays) and **Forget the room arrangements** (each room’s tabs and spaces go back to the starting layout). RPG Desk asks first.

## On a phone

Settings opens as a list: your card at the top and the sections in groups, with a summary beside them (the language, the text size). Tapping opens the section; **← Settings** goes back to the list.

*Screenshot:* Settings on a phone: the title, the search, the profile card and the sections in blocks, each with its summary and arrow.