Service settings

Right-click a service’s icon in the sidebar and choose Edit…. There’s one Edit window at a time. Choosing Edit… on another service switches it to that one.

There’s no Save button. Each change applies as you make it. A text field applies when you press Return or click somewhere else, and Esc puts back what was there.

Name

The name shown beside the icon and in the Services menu. Renaming a service keeps it signed in, but reloads its page.

Display mode

Auto follows macOS. Light and Dark keep the service that way, whatever macOS is set to. Only pages with a dark theme of their own change, such as WhatsApp’s. Gmail, for one, looks the same in every mode.

Dark mode or Light mode on the icon’s right-click menu is a shortcut to this.

User agent

This tells the service which browser it’s talking to. Leave it on Auto unless a service says your browser isn’t supported. Auto picks what each service needs, and shows it in brackets, such as Auto (Chrome) for WhatsApp.

The other choices are Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox and Custom…, which lets you type any user agent. Changing it reloads the service, which stays signed in.

Sleep

• Put this service to sleep when it’s idle is on unless you turn it off. Off, the service never sleeps, and wakes straight away if it’s asleep. Turn it off for a service you want notifications from at all times.
• Start suspended when Labaro opens is off unless you turn it on. On, the service starts asleep, so it uses no memory until you click it. This takes effect the next time you open Labaro.

Sleep and memory explains what sleeping does.

Notifications

This section only shows for services that can notify.

• Show notifications turns them on or off for this service. Turning them on asks macOS for permission the first time.
• Ignore unimportant messages hides the green dot, so the icon only shows a badge for messages that need you. It’s under Show notifications, and only shows while that’s ticked.

See Notifications.

Advanced

Allowed hosts are extra sites the service may open inside Labaro, such as your company’s sign-in page. Blocked hosts are sites it may never open, not even in your browser. Click + to add one, and the bin to remove it. Links and signing in explains when you’d need them.

Disable a service

Right-click its icon and choose Disable. The service stops and gives back all its memory, but keeps its settings and sign-in. Its icon is greyed out and its badge cleared.

To bring it back, choose Enable from the same menu, or click Enable in Debug → Tasks, or choose Services → Enable All.

Delete a service

Right-click its icon and choose Delete…, then confirm. The service goes from the sidebar, along with its settings and its notifications in Tools → Notifications.

On macOS 14 or later, its sign-in and saved data are deleted too, so adding it again starts signed out. On older versions they stay on your Mac.

Change a service’s address

A service’s web address can’t be changed in its Edit window. Delete the service and add it again with the new address.