Canvas Settings
Around every Canvas sit a few corner buttons. This page explains what each one is for and every option in Canvas Settings.
The corner buttons
| Corner | Buttons |
|---|---|
| Top-left | The navigator button, Go Back / Go Forward, the Canvas View / Bento View switch, and the column of Space buttons below. |
| Top-right | Search (Search & Replace, ⌘F), your account. |
| Bottom-right | Add Assets, Controller, Settings (Canvas Settings), Minimap, the zoom indicator, and the Lino AI button. |
| Bottom-left | The Inbox Stack and Help. |
- Add Assets searches free image libraries (Wikimedia Commons, Openverse) so you can drop a picture onto the Canvas.
- Controller sets how pan and zoom work — see Moving around a Canvas.
- Minimap and the zoom indicator are covered on the same page.
Canvas Settings
Click Settings (the gear in the bottom-right; its tooltip is Canvas Settings). These options apply to all your Canvases.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Snapping | "Aligns to nearby objects" — when on, objects snap into line with their neighbours as you move them. |
| AI Provenance | "Highlight AI-made text while typing" — marks text Lino AI wrote inside your Cards. |
| Zen Mode | "Just the canvas, until you hover" — see below. |
| Signposting | "For off-screen objects" — choose Connected, Ubiquitous or Close. |
| Focus Isolate | "Dim the unconnected" — Space + Hover (hold Space and hover an object) or Hover (just hover). |
| Connection Labels | Which Relationship labels show on Connections: Show All, Hide Default (hides plain ones like "connects", "embeds") or Hide All. Hide Table Embeds hides the automatic Connections from Tables. |
| Connection Wires | Where Connections attach and how they're drawn. See Connections. |
| Theme Color | The accent color used across the app. |
| Theme | Light, Dark or System. |
Zen mode
To hide the corner buttons and see only your Canvas, turn on Zen mode (⌘\). See Zen Mode.