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67 lines
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# The keyboard
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Press `Super + /` at any time to see every shortcut this machine has. That
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list is generated from the live keymap, so it is never out of date, and it
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includes anything you have rebound.
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This chapter is the shape behind that list, which is the part worth learning
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once.
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## Three modifiers, three jobs
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| Modifier | Acts on |
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| `Super` | The window you are looking at |
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| `Alt` | Workspaces |
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| `Super + Ctrl` | The layout itself: splitting, floating, swapping |
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| `Super + Alt` | The application you already have open |
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Almost every shortcut follows from this. `Super + H` moves focus left.
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`Alt + H` moves to the workspace on the left. `Super + Ctrl + H` swaps the
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window leftward in the layout.
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## Directions
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`H`, `J`, `K`, `L` mean left, down, up, right, as they do in vim. The arrow
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keys work everywhere the letters do, so you never have to learn them if you
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would rather not.
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Add `Shift` to move the window rather than the focus. `Super + Shift + L`
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takes the current window and moves it to the right.
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## Opening versus going to
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`Super + T` opens a terminal. It opens another one every time, which on a
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tiling desktop is the normal way to work rather than an accident.
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`Super + Alt + T` goes to a terminal you already have, wherever it is, and
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opens one only if there is none. The same pair works for the editor, browser,
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files, calculator and mail.
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So the plain key means "give me one" and adding `Alt` means "take me to the
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one I have".
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## The handful worth memorising first
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| Keys | What it does |
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| `Super + Space` | Find and open anything |
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| `Super + T` | Terminal (another one) |
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| `Super + Alt + T` | The terminal you already have |
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| `Super + Q` | Close the window |
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| `Super + backtick` | Every window, every workspace |
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| `Super + I` | Settings |
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| `Super + /` | Every other shortcut |
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## Changing them
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Settings has a [Keyboard page](panama://settings/shortcuts), under Input, listing every bind, each of which
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can be reassigned. A rebind moves the shortcut and cannot change what it does, so
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there is no way to make a key do something unexpected by editing it.
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Shortcuts you invent live in the same list, in a **Custom** group above the
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rest. One of those names an application, a shell action or a window move rather
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than storing a command — for the same reason: what you are choosing is which
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key, not what it runs. A chord something already holds is refused rather than
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stolen, so a new shortcut can never quietly cost you an old one.
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