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Settings & configuration

Walk through the basic settings flow in the wallet GUI: sign in, find the Settings tab, change a setting, and locate the in-app help.

Sign in to the GUI

Open the wallet GUI in your browser (either http://localhost if you mapped port 80, or via Tor Browser at the node's .onion address — see Setup Docker for both paths). The login screen at /gui/ asks for an authentication code; paste yours and click Access Wallet.

  • The auth code was generated alongside your seed phrase at first boot — it's in the same /dev/shm file you read in Setup Step 3, or you can fetch it via the CLI from Setup Step 4.
  • Tick Remember Me to keep the session for the configured TTL; otherwise the session is single-use and rotates on every sign-in.
  • Auth codes are session-bound and never sent to remote nodes. Treat them like a local password.

The login screen

₳ Wallet authentication screen in Tor Browser with auth-code field and Access Wallet button

After signing in you land on the Dashboard tab. The top navigation has five tabs: Dashboard, Payment, Contacts, Activity, and Settings — every interaction in the rest of this demo happens inside one of those.

Wallet Settings

Open the Settings tab. The Wallet Settings section is one form with one Save Settings button at the bottom. Use the Section dropdown at the top of the form to navigate between groups (Currency & Fees, P2P & Network, Backup & Logging, Display, etc.); your edits are kept as you switch sections — nothing is lost.

  • Section dropdown — pick which group of settings is in view
  • Edits in any section persist as you switch — toggles, dropdowns, and number fields all retain their pending values
  • Save Settings — one button at the bottom commits everything you changed across every section

The Settings tab

Settings tab showing Wallet Settings form with Section dropdown set to Payments and Default Currency / Default Fee / Min Fee / Max Fee / Default Credit Limit fields

Changing a value

Default Fee (%) input highlighted and updated to 0.5 in the Wallet Settings Payments section

As an example, switch to the Payments section and change Default Fee (%) from its default of 0 to 0.5. Click Save Settings at the bottom. The wallet validates the input (rejects negative values, values above your max-fee ceiling, etc.) and shows a confirmation when the new value is persisted.

Below Wallet Settings the same Settings tab also exposes API Keys (Create API Key…), Plugins (Refresh / enable / disable), and a Debug Information section. For the full key catalogue (~50 settings, grouped by category) see /docs/settings.

Find help in-app

Most GUI tabs have an About this section block at the top — for example About Your Contacts on the Contacts tab, About Recent Transactions on the Activity tab, How to change settings on the Settings tab. These short explainers cover what the tab is for and how to use it.

About-this-tab panels

Contacts tab with the About this tab block expanded, showing the explanation text and a subnote about RestoredContact names

If the in-app help doesn't cover what you need, the CLI reference at /docs/* is the deep documentation — every GUI action has a corresponding eiou ... command, and the CLI reference covers all of them.

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