Settings

Open Settings from the gear in the status bar, Menu › File, Menu › Go, Home, or Quick search. Codestamp stores settings in its database and applies them to the HTTP client without a restart. Codestamp rejects a value it cannot use before it saves.

Appearance

• Theme: Light, Dark, Dark Night, or System, which follows your operating system. A preview shows the change.
• Interface font size, from 11 to 20 px. It zooms the whole window, so spacing and buttons follow.
• Editor font size from 10 to 24 px, line height from 1.2 to 2.2, and ligatures on or off.
• Your own fonts: import .ttf, .otf or .woff2 files through the system file dialog, up to 10 MB each and 20 fonts. Codestamp checks the format from the file’s content, not its extension.

Codestamp rejects a value outside a range with a message and does not correct it silently.

Editor

Indentation (it also applies to Beautify), auto-closing brackets, line wrapping, the layout of new cards, and variable suggestions. The default indentation is None: a new line starts at the left edge, Tab moves to the next column, and Beautify puts each element on its own line without indent. A choice you saved earlier is not changed.

Requests

The default timeout, the response size limit, redirects on the same site, the cookie jar on or off, the Cache-Control: no-cache header, and the User-Agent.

Proxy

Use the system proxy, use no proxy, or set a custom HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5 proxy with a login and a bypass list. Codestamp stores the proxy password encrypted, like a secret variable. gRPC does not use a proxy.

SSL/TLS

• The minimum TLS version: TLS 1.2 or later, or TLS 1.3 only. It applies to HTTP, GraphQL, SOAP, Server-Sent Events, WebSocket, OAuth tokens and imports from a URL. gRPC always accepts TLS 1.2 and later.
• Extra CA certificates and client certificates (mTLS) per host. WebSocket does not use the extra CA certificates from Settings: it trusts only the operating system’s certificate store.

Certificate verification cannot be turned off. For an internal server, add its CA. Codestamp rejects a CA file that contains a private key, and it stores a client certificate’s private key encrypted.

Git accounts

Lists the Git accounts your shared collections use: accounts you add yourself (host, username and an optional label), accounts a collection already uses, and a “Git’s default account” row for each host with an https collection that has no username. Each row shows which collections use it and whether you are signed in. Sign in and Sign out go through Git Credential Manager, and Codestamp never receives a password or token. Remove works only for an account no collection uses. See Teams.

Data and history

• The History limits, by number of entries and by days, and a button that clears History.
• Back up to one .codestamp file, and restore from it. A backup holds all your data with secret values still encrypted. Restore checks that the file is a complete Codestamp database and is not newer than the app.

About and shortcuts

The version, where your data is stored, the size of the database, and the list of keyboard shortcuts. Your data lives in %APPDATA%\dev.codestamp.desktop on Windows and ~/.local/share/dev.codestamp.desktop on Linux.

Common shortcuts: Ctrl+Space for Quick search, Ctrl+S to save, Ctrl+F to search an editor, Ctrl+Enter to send a WebSocket message or run a flow, and Ctrl+B to collapse the sidebar.

Updates

The in-app update flow is for Windows. On Linux, new versions come through sudo apt upgrade when you installed from the APT repository.

A few seconds after it opens, Codestamp checks for a new version. A failed check at start shows nothing. When one is available, a banner shows “What’s new”, “Update and restart” and “Later”. About › Updates has Check for updates, which shows a reason if the check fails.

Update and restart downloads the installer, checks its signature, and runs it in update mode. There is no uninstall, and your data is not touched. Codestamp installs only an installer whose signature matches the public key inside Codestamp and that was built for the announced version. A build without an update address and key never checks, and About says “This build of Codestamp is not set up to receive updates.”