Every default keybinding, grouped by scope.
All shortcuts are customizable via Settings → Keyboard or config.keybindings in ~/.atrium/config.json. See Keybindings for the format.
Keys are shown in macOS form (Cmd = Command).
Mosaic and panes
Cmd+D | Split focused pane right (horizontal) |
Cmd+Shift+D | Split focused pane down (vertical) |
Cmd+[ | Focus previous pane in room |
Cmd+] | Focus next pane in room |
Cmd+W | Close focused pane |
Cmd+F | Find in active pane |
Cmd+Up | Scroll to top of focused pane |
Cmd+Down | Scroll to bottom of focused pane |
Resize handles between panes have inline
snap and
restore buttons on hover — snap collapses a pane to the edge of its split, restore pops it back to its previous size. Useful for quickly hiding a reference pane without closing it.
Rooms (tabs)
Cmd+T | New room |
Cmd+Shift+W | Close current room |
Cmd+Shift+[ | Previous room |
Cmd+Shift+] | Next room |
Cmd+Shift+P | Pin / unpin current room |
Workspaces
Cmd+1 … Cmd+9 | Switch to top-level workspace by index (worktrees excluded) |
Cmd+Shift+N | New workspace dialog |
View and UI
Cmd+B | Toggle main sidebar |
Cmd+Shift+A | Toggle activity sidebar |
Cmd+Shift+Y | Toggle toolbar |
` Cmd+Shift+ `` | Toggle zen mode |
Cmd+= | Zoom in (UI scale) |
Cmd+Shift+= | Zoom in (alternate) |
Cmd+- | Zoom out |
Cmd+0 | Reset zoom |
The title bar has a toggleable
Performance HUD (open it from
Settings → Diagnostics → Performance HUD) showing FPS, frame lag, IPC throughput, and live pane count — useful when reporting slowdowns or sizing up the cost of a heavy view.
Tool panes
These shortcuts focus an existing pane of that type if one is already open in the active workspace. Cmd+T followed by the tool's hotkey letter (see the launcher) opens a fresh one in a new room.
Cmd+Shift+G | Focus or open source control |
Cmd+Shift+F | Focus or open search |
Cmd+Shift+B | Focus or open browser |
Cmd+Shift+K | Focus or open tasks list |
Cmd+Shift+J | Focus or open task detail |
Cmd+Shift+L | Toggle the Library popover |
Cmd+Shift+T | Open command palette (Omni menu) |
Cmd+L | Toggle launcher (on focused pane) |
The
Notepad pane doesn't have a top-level focus shortcut — open it via the toolbar tile, the launcher (
Cmd+T N), or
atrium note new --open. Once open, the sidebar has its own keyboard surface:
↑ /
↓ step rows,
← /
→ collapse / expand groups,
Enter opens the focused note in the active pane,
Cmd+Enter opens it as a split.
Omni menu (command palette)
Cmd+Shift+T opens the Omni menu — a single search surface across workspaces, rooms, panes, tasks, files, and commands. Arrow keys move the selection, Enter activates the match.
- Type a single-character prefix to jump straight to a category:
~ workspaces, @ rooms, $ panes, # tasks, / files, > commands. ← / → cycle category tabs.
- The top of the menu remembers your most-used commands when the query is empty.
- A Create task quick action creates a card in the active workspace from whatever you type, so you can jot something down without leaving the keyboard.
- Rooms show a miniature of their mosaic layout; panes show their pane-header icon; workspaces show a folder icon.
Cmd+Enter or Cmd+click on a file, task, or create-task row opens it as a split next to the focused pane instead of routing to a new room. Plain Enter / click keeps the new-room behavior. Workspace, room, pane, and command rows ignore the modifier (it doesn't apply to them).
Clicking a file in the sidebar file tree or a tool tile in the toolbar follows the same focus-existing rule, with symlink-aware same-file detection.
Cmd+click on a file or tool opens a fresh pane regardless.
Pane popout
The popout feature detaches a pane from the mosaic into a draggable, resizable floating overlay layered above the mosaic. The pop-out button lives in every non-browser pane header; once popped out, the same header (icons, focus ring, split, search, close) follows the pane into the floating window. Expose mode shows all popped-out panes side by side so you can drag them around, and any popped pane can be docked back into the mosaic.
Cmd+Shift+O | Pop the focused pane out, or dock it back if popped |
Cmd+Shift+I | Hide the focused popped-out pane (keeps state) |
Cmd+Shift+E | Toggle Expose mode for all popped panes |
Cmd+Shift+\\ | Toggle every popped pane at once |
Popout state — position, size, and which panes are out — persists across restarts. Maximized panes also persist their maximized state.
Dictation
Cmd+Shift+M | Toggle dictation |
While dictating into any atrium text input or terminal:
- Saying "Full stop." immediately submits (equivalent to pressing
Enter).
- Saying "Send" or "Enter" alone (no surrounding text) also submits.
Terminal panes
Cmd+F | Find in scrollback |
Cmd+C | Copy selection, or SIGINT if nothing is selected |
Cmd+A | Select all scrollback |
Shift+Enter | Send newline (for agents that treat Enter as submit) |
Editor panes (Monaco defaults)
atrium does not override Monaco's defaults. Common shortcuts:
Cmd+S | Save |
Cmd+F / Cmd+H | Find / Find and replace |
Cmd+G | Go to line |
F12 | Go to definition |
Shift+F12 | Find references |
F2 | Rename symbol |
Cmd+/ | Toggle line comment |
Browser panes
Cmd+R | Reload |
Cmd+[ / Cmd+] | Back / Forward (also Cmd+Left / Cmd+Right) |
Cmd+L | Focus URL bar |
Cmd+= / Cmd+- / Cmd+0 | Zoom in / out / reset (per-site) |
Cmd+F | Find in page |
| Right-click → Inspect | Open Chrome DevTools |
Launcher chain gestures
Double-shift hold — tap
Shift once to arm, hold
Shift again to activate. The launcher overlays a hotkey letter on every tile; with shift held, tap a letter to launch that adapter or pane-dock tile instantly.
Cmd-hold chain — hold
Cmd, press a pane-creation shortcut, keep
Cmd held, tap a launcher letter. The chain is routed through atrium's shortcut layer so it works even for keys with macOS menu roles (
C for Claude Code,
X for Codex,
V,
M for Gemini). System edit shortcuts (
Cmd+C,
Cmd+V,
Cmd+A) pass through the gesture untouched, so copy / paste / select-all in a focused text input still works while
Cmd is held to activate launcher letters.
Cmd+T G | New room → focus Git panel |
Cmd+T N | New room → open Notepad |
Cmd+T C | New room → launch Claude Code |
Cmd+D C | Split right → launch Claude Code |
Cmd+Shift+D X | Split down → launch Codex |
Cmd+T W | Closes the just-created pane (while Cmd is still held) |
Pane-dock letters reserved by the launcher are
T (Terminal),
B (Browser),
F (Search),
G (Git),
K (Tasks list),
J (Task detail),
N (Notepad). Adapters whose natural initial collides with a reserved letter get an override —
Codex → X,
Gemini → M.
Text input passthrough
Keybindings of type send-text are delivered as raw PTY stdin when a terminal or xterm helper has focus. They skip atrium's keybinding processing — so Shift+Enter bound to "\n" reaches the shell rather than triggering an atrium action.
