Key | Action |
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Break | Cancel an action (e.g. stop printing a file) |
Alt-Break | Brings up the application termination dialogue |
Ctrl-Break | Reboot |
Shift-Break | Reboot to command line |
On some keyboards, the BREAK key is marked PAUSE. If your keyboard has neither key, see The Break key for how to configure another key as BREAK.
You can generate any character on the keyboard (and quite a few that aren’t on the keyboard) by holding down the Alt key and typing the character code on the numeric keypad. For example, Alt-163 would produce a £ symbol with the Latin1 alphabet.
Some special characters can also be produced by pressing Alt and a letter key. The following shortcuts are available with the Latin1 alphabet:
Key | Alt character | Shift-Alt character |
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1 | 1 superscript | Inverted exclamation mark |
2 | 2 superscript | |
3 | 3 superscript | Currency symbol |
4 | Euro symbol | |
5 | Permil symbol | |
7 | One-quarter symbol | |
8 | One-half symbol | Bullet point |
9 | Three-quarters symbol | Plus-minus symbol |
A | Lower-case ae ligature | Upper-case AE ligature |
B | Close single quotes | Close double quotes |
C | Cent symbol | Copyright symbol |
D | Lower-case eth (Icelandic) | Upper-case eth (Icelandic) |
F | Feminine ordinal symbol | |
I | Lower-case fi ligature | Upper-case FI ligature |
L | Lower-case fl ligature | Upper-case FL ligature |
M | Mu (Greek) | Masculine ordinal symbol |
N | Lower right double quote | |
O | Lower-case o with diagonal line | Upper-case O with diagonal line |
P | Lower-case thorn (Icelandic) | Upper-case thorn (Icelandic) |
Q | Lower-case oe ligature | Upper-case OE ligature |
R | Pilcrow | Registered trade mark symbol |
S | Eszett (German) | Section sign |
T | Trade mark symbol | |
V | Open single quotes | Open double quotes |
X | Close double angle quote | Close single angle quote |
Y | Yen symbol | |
Z | Open double angle quote | Open single angle quote |
` | Broken vertical bar | Degree symbol |
- | Soft hyphen | Minus sign |
= | En-rule | Em-dash |
; | (accents – see below) | Ellipsis |
# | Dagger symbol | Double dagger symbol |
\ | Interpunct (middle dot) | |
, | (accents – see below) | Multiplication symbol |
. | (accents – see below) | Division symbol |
/ | (accents – see below) | Inverted question mark |
space | Non-breaking space |
Accented letters can be generated by pressing Alt and one of the characters [ ] ; ’ , . / followed by the letter you want the accent applied to. The following shortcuts are available with the Latin1 alphabet:
Key combination | Accent | Characters affected |
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Alt [ | Acute | aeiouy |
Alt ] | Grave | aeiou |
Alt ; | Diaeresis (Umlaut) | aeiouy |
Alt ’ | Circumflex | aeiouwy |
Alt , | Tilde | ano |
Alt . | Overring | a |
Alt / | Cedilla | c |
Key | Action |
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F12 | Suspend desktop and access the command line |
Shift-F12 | Bring icon bar to front/back of window stack |
Ctrl-F12 | Open a Task Window |
Shift-Ctrl-F12 | Shut down the machine |
Key | Action |
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F1 | Help |
F2 | Load file |
Shift-F2 | Insert file |
Ctrl-F2 | Close current window |
F3 | Save file |
F4 | Find / Search and replace |
F5 | Go to (line) |
F8 | Undo |
F9 | Redo |
Ctrl-A | Select all |
Ctrl-C | Copy selection to clipboard |
Ctrl-K | Delete selection without affecting the clipboard |
Ctrl-U | Erase text from input field1 |
Ctrl-V | Paste selection from clipboard |
Ctrl-X | Cut selection to clipboard |
Ctrl-Z | Clear selection |
Ctrl-End | Delete current line |
1 Some applications use Ctrl-U to delete the current line.
Key | Action |
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Return | Open/run selection |
Backspace | Open parent directory |
Ctrl-A | Select All |
Ctrl-F | Cycle display format |
Ctrl-R | Rename |
Ctrl-S | Cycle sort order |
Ctrl-U | Erase text from input field |
Ctrl-W | Set current directory |
Ctrl-Z | Clear selection |
Ctrl-K | Delete selection |
Tab | Switch to next filer window |
Shift-Tab | Switch to previous filer window |
Ctrl-F2 | Close window |
Escape | Cancel operation (e.g. dismiss a menu) |
Key | Action |
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Ctrl-Q | Zoom out |
Ctrl-W | Zoom in |
Ctrl-R | Reload current page |
Ctrl-S | Save current page |
Ctrl-F | Search on current page |
Ctrl-N | Open a new window |
F2 | Enter a new URL |
Ctrl-U | Clear current content of URL input bar while it has focus |
Three keys on the bottom row of the keyboard (the two “flag” keys and the “menu” key) can be configured to perform predetermined actions. This is done via Configure > Keyboard which allows you to assign a command to each of the keys. For example, you can set a key to open a directory or run an application by dragging the appropriate icon to the input field on the Keyboard configuration window.
Key | Action |
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Select | Choose item / Perform action |
Adjust | Alter selection / Perform alternative action |
Menu | Display context-sensitive menu |
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Mouse button | Action |
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Select | Choose item |
Adjust | Alter selection (add/remove item) |
Select-drag | Choose group of items |
Adjust-drag | Alter selection of group of items |
Double-clicking Select | Run/open item |
Double-clicking Adjust | Run/open item and close current Filer window |
Shift + double-click (file icon) | Load any file into default editor (usually !Edit) |
Double-click and hold2 (file icon) | |
Shift + double-click (application icon) | Open application directory |
Double-click and hold2 (application icon) | |
Control + double-click (directory icon) | Open directory but do not run internal files of applications in that directory |
2 “Double-click and hold” needs to be enabled via Configuration > Filer.