Keyboard shortcuts and menus

Kubermeister’s own shortcuts are listed below and on the cheat sheet, which ? opens. The rest of this page is the application menu, the command palette, and the standard keys of the editor and dialogs the app is built from.

In the tables, ⌘ is Command on macOS and Ctrl is Control on Windows and Linux; a key written as ⌘/Ctrl is ⌘ on macOS and Ctrl elsewhere.

The app’s own shortcuts

Keys	Does
`⌘K`/`Ctrl+K`	Opens the command palette, or closes it
`⌘1` … `⌘7` / `Ctrl+1` … `Ctrl+7`	Goes to Overview, Workloads, Network, Storage, Access, Add-ons or Helm
`⌘[` / `⌘]` on macOS, `Alt+←` / `Alt+→` elsewhere	Goes back / forward; the mouse’s back and forward buttons do the same
`⌘R`/`Ctrl+R`	Refreshes the screen’s data, as its Refresh button does
`/`, or `⌘F`/`Ctrl+F`	Puts the cursor in the screen’s search box: a list’s, or a log console’s
`⌘,`/`Ctrl+,`	Opens Settings
`?`	Opens the keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
`⇧⌘R` / `Ctrl+Shift+R`	Reloads the window, which ends every port forward, shell and log follow
`⌘Q`	Quits, after asking (macOS)
`Ctrl+W` or `Alt+F4`	Closes the window, which quits after asking (Windows and Linux)
`↑` `↓` `←` `→`	Moves between a detail page’s tabs, when one of them has focus
`Return`	Applies the replica count you typed in the Scale popover
`Return` / `Escape`	Saves a Settings text field, or puts back what was there

A number goes to the first screen of its domain: ⌘2 opens Pods, ⌘6 opens CRDs and ⌘7 opens Releases. ⌘R refreshes only what the screen’s own Refresh button would, and spins it; on a screen without one it re-reads everything the screen shows. It no longer reloads the window. / does nothing on a screen without a search box.

On macOS Ctrl+K opens the palette as well as ⌘K. The palette and the other chords match the key’s position rather than its letter, so they work with Caps Lock on and with non-Latin layouts.

Among a detail page’s tabs the arrow keys run through every tab in order, across the groups, and wrap from the last tab to the first.

Where the keys work

In a text field, / and ? type themselves; only the chords act.
In the Shell tab, every key a shell reads goes to the shell: on Windows and Linux no Ctrl or Alt chord is taken from it, so Ctrl+R searches the shell’s history and Ctrl+W deletes a word. On macOS the ⌘ chords still act, since no shell reads them, and Ctrl+K goes to the shell.
In the YAML editor, its own keys win: ⌘F/Ctrl+F opens its search, and ⌘[ / ⌘] on macOS and Alt+← / Alt+→ elsewhere are its own. ⌘K, ⌘R and ⌘1 to ⌘7 still act.
With a dialog, a popover or a menu open, it has Escape and its own keys first, and the app’s shortcuts wait until it closes. ⌘K/Ctrl+K closes the palette it opened.

The command palette

The palette is titled Quick actions. Type to filter, move with ↑ and ↓, choose with Return, and close with Escape. It lists:

Contexts — switch to any context in your kubeconfig;
Namespaces — switch to any namespace of the current context;
Actions — Create resource; Install a chart…, which opens the chart install dialog; Check for updates, which runs a check and opens Settings; and Keyboard shortcuts, which opens the cheat sheet;
every screen in the sidebar, grouped by domain, then Settings.

Menus

macOS

Menu	Items
Kubermeister	About Kubermeister, Check for Updates…, Settings… (`⌘,`), Services, Hide Kubermeister (`⌘H`), Hide Others (`⌥⌘H`), Show All, Quit Kubermeister (`⌘Q`)
Edit	Undo (`⌘Z`), Redo (`⇧⌘Z`), Cut (`⌘X`), Copy (`⌘C`), Paste (`⌘V`), Paste and Match Style (`⌥⇧⌘V`), Delete, Select All (`⌘A`), Speech
View	Refresh (`⌘R`), Force Reload (`⇧⌘R`), Toggle Developer Tools (`⌥⌘I`), Actual Size (`⌘0`), Zoom In (`⌘+`), Zoom Out (`⌘-`), Toggle Full Screen (`⌃⌘F`)
Window	Minimize (`⌘M`), Zoom, Bring All to Front
Help	Keyboard Shortcuts (`?`), Report a Bug…, Kubermeister on GitHub

Windows and Linux

Menu	Items
File	Settings… (`Ctrl+,`), Check for Updates…, Quit
Edit	Undo (`Ctrl+Z`), Redo (`Ctrl+Y` on Windows, `Ctrl+Shift+Z` on Linux), Cut (`Ctrl+X`), Copy (`Ctrl+C`), Paste (`Ctrl+V`), Delete, Select All (`Ctrl+A`)
View	Refresh (`Ctrl+R`), Force Reload (`Ctrl+Shift+R`), Toggle Developer Tools (`Ctrl+Shift+I`), Actual Size (`Ctrl+0`), Zoom In (`Ctrl++`), Zoom Out (`Ctrl+-`), Toggle Full Screen (`F11`)
Window	Minimize (`Ctrl+M`), Close (`Ctrl+W`)
Help	Keyboard Shortcuts (`?`), Report a Bug…, Kubermeister on GitHub

The items in bold are Kubermeister’s own; the rest are Electron’s standard items.

Settings… opens the Settings screen.
Check for Updates… checks and answers in native dialogs, which work even when the window has not finished loading. See updates.
Quit asks first unless you have turned that off. File › Quit has no shortcut.
Refresh re-reads the screen’s data, as ⌘R/Ctrl+R does.
Keyboard Shortcuts opens the cheat sheet, as ? does.
Report a Bug… opens the bug report form on GitHub in your browser, with the version filled in, and Kubermeister on GitHub opens the repository. Both work when the window is blank.
Force Reload starts the window afresh, which ends every port forward, shell and log follow it had open. It is the one way left to reload the window.
Close on Windows and Linux closes the only window, which quits the app, and asks first like Quit. On macOS there is no Close item: closing the window with its button leaves the app running, and clicking the Dock icon opens it again, but it ends every port forward, shell and log follow the window had open, without asking.

The YAML editor

The Manifest tab and the Create resource screen use a CodeMirror editor, with its standard keys. Here Mod is ⌘ on macOS and Ctrl elsewhere.

Keys	Does
`Tab` / `Shift+Tab`	Indents / outdents the line or selection
`Mod+F`	Opens search in the editor
`Mod+G` or `F3`, with `Shift` to go back	Next / previous match
`Escape`	Closes the search panel
`Mod+Alt+G`	Goes to a line
`Mod+D`	Selects the next occurrence of the selection
`Mod+Shift+L`	Selects every occurrence of the selection
`Mod+Z`	Undo
`Mod+Shift+Z` on macOS, `Mod+Y` elsewhere	Redo
`Mod+/`	Comments or uncomments the line
`Alt+↑` / `Alt+↓`	Moves the line up / down
`Shift+Alt+↑` / `Shift+Alt+↓`	Copies the line up / down
`Mod+[` / `Mod+]`	Outdents / indents
`Mod+Alt+[` / `Mod+Alt+]` on macOS, `Ctrl+Shift+[` / `Ctrl+Shift+]` elsewhere	Folds / unfolds the block

Search, go-to-line and selection work in the read-only viewer too; only edits are refused.

Because Tab indents, it does not move focus out of the editor. Press Escape and then Tab within two seconds to leave it.

Elsewhere

Tab first reaches Skip to content, which moves focus past the sidebar and top bar to the screen. See accessibility.
Dialogs and popovers close with Escape.
The Shell tab sends what you type to the shell in the pod; the terminal adds no shortcuts of its own. See where the keys work.
The log viewer has no keys of its own beyond / for its search: its filters and view options are all controls in its toolbar.