Config File

Available since 0.11.0.

Neovide also support configuration through a config file in the toml format.

Settings priority

There are two types of settings:

1. Settings override these settings from the environment variables, but they can be overridden by command line arguments.
2. Runtime settings. These settings can be hot-reloaded in runtime.

Location

Available settings

Settings currently available in the config file with default values:

fork = false
frame = "full"
idle = true
maximized = false
neovim-bin = "/usr/bin/nvim" # in reality found dynamically on $PATH if unset
no-multigrid = false
srgb = false
tabs = true
theme = "auto"
title-hidden = true
vsync = true
wsl = false

[font]
normal = [] # Will use the bundled Fira Code Nerd Font by default
size = 14.0

Settings from environment variables can be found in Command Line Reference, see that doc for details on what those settings do.

Runtime settings

Font

Available since 0.12.1.

[font] table in configuration file contains:

• normal: required, FontDescription
• bold: optional, SecondaryFontDescription
• italic: optional, SecondaryFontDescription
• bold_italic: optional, SecondaryFontDescription
• features: optional, { "<font>" = ["<string>"] }
• size: required,
• width: optional,
• hinting: optional,
• edging: optional,

Settings size, width, hinting and edging can be found in Configuration.

• FontDescription can be:
  • a table with two keys family and style, family is required, style is optional,
  • a string, indicate the font family,
  • an array of string or tables in previous two forms.
• SecondaryFontDescription can be:
  • a table with two keys family and style, both are optional,
  • a string, indicate the font family,
  • an array of string or tables in previous two forms.
• Font styles consist of zero or more space separated parts, each parts can be:
  • pre-defined style name
    • weight: Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Normal, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, Black, ExtraBlack
    • slant: Italic, Oblique
  • variable font weight: W<weight>, e.g. W100, W200, W300, W400, W500, W600, W700, W800, W900
• Font features are a table with font family as key and an array of string as value, each string is a font feature.
  • Font feature is a string with format +<feature>, -<feature> or <feature>=<value>, e.g. +ss01, -calt, ss02=2. +<feature> is a shorthand for <feature>=1, -<feature> is a shorthand for <feature>=0.

Example:

[font]
normal = ["MonoLisa Nerd Font"]
size = 18

[font.features]
"MonoLisa Nerd Font" = [ "+ss01", "+ss07", "+ss11", "-calt", "+ss09", "+ss02", "+ss14" ]

Specify font weight:

[font]
size = 19
hinting = "full"
edging = "antialias"

[[font.normal]]
family = "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Propo"
style = "W400"

# You can set a different font for fallback
[[font.normal]]
family = "Noto Sans CJK SC" 
style = "Normal"

[[font.bold]]
family = "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Propo"
style = "W600"

# No need to specify fallback in every variant, if omitted or specified here
# but not found, it will fallback to normal font with this weight which is bold
# in this case.
[[font.bold]] 
family = "Noto Sans CJK SC"
style = "Bold"