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Managing user account settings
About your personal dashboard
You can visit your personal dashboard to keep track of issues and pull requests you're working on or following, navigate to your top repositories and team pages, stay updated on recent activities in organizations and repositories you're subscribed to, and explore recommended repositories.
Managing your theme settings
You can manage how GitHub Enterprise Server looks to you by setting a theme preference that either follows your system settings or always uses a light or dark mode.
Changing your GitHub username
You can change the username for your account on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance if your instance uses built-in authentication.
Permission levels for a personal account repository
A repository owned by a personal account has two permission levels: the repository owner and collaborators.
Permission levels for a project board owned by a personal account
A project board owned by a personal account has two permission levels: the project board owner and collaborators.
Managing the default branch name for your repositories
You can set the default branch name for new repositories that you create on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
Managing access to your personal account's project boards
As a project board owner, you can add or remove a collaborator and customize their permissions to a project board.
Managing your cookie preferences for GitHub's enterprise marketing pages
You can control how GitHub uses information from non-essential tracking cookies for enterprise marketing pages.
Integrating Jira with your personal projects
You can integrate Jira Cloud with your personal account to scan commits and pull requests, creating relevant metadata and hyperlinks in any mentioned Jira issues.