The Switcher & keyboard shortcuts
Two things move you around Atrium fast: the Switcher (one keystroke to fuzzy-jump anywhere) and a small, collision-free set of keyboard shortcuts. This page is both — the Switcher first, then the full key reference.
The Switcher
Section titled “The Switcher”Ctrl+Shift+K (⌘⇧K on macOS) opens the Switcher — a keyboard fuzzy-finder over everything you
have open, across all projects:
- Panes — jump straight to any terminal or agent.
- Projects — switch project.
- Worktrees — jump into a worktree (including Worktree View).
- Views — Dashboard, Settings.
Matching favors what you meant: prefix and contiguous matches rank above scattered subsequences, and the active project is foregrounded. The free Switcher carries one action row alongside navigation — Quick edit file… With a Pro license the Switcher also carries action verbs: Add pane here, New worktree, Restart pane, Toggle theme, My Work, Search session history, Save as workspace…, and per-connector rows (GitHub pull requests, Jira issues, Integrations) when those are connected.
Keyboard reference
Section titled “Keyboard reference”The modifier is Ctrl on Windows/Linux and ⌘ on macOS. App shortcuts deliberately use
Shift or non-letter keys so they never collide with shell keybindings (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+R, … always
reach your shell); on macOS, plain Ctrl combos pass through to the terminal, except the pane’s own
copy/paste/search keys.
Press ? (outside a terminal) for the in-app cheatsheet — it’s generated from the same registry
most of this table describes (scrollback search, Esc, and ? itself live outside it).
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Mod+Shift+T | New pane in the active group |
Mod+Shift+W | Close the active pane |
Mod+Shift+K | Open the Switcher |
Mod+Shift+M | My Work — your PRs, reviews, and Jira issues (Pro) |
Mod+Shift+H | Search session history (Pro) |
Mod+Shift+I | Integrations for this project (Pro) |
Mod+Tab / Mod+Shift+Tab | Next / previous pane |
Mod+Shift+] / Mod+Shift+[ | Next / previous project |
Mod+1 … Mod+9 | Switch to project 1–9 |
Mod+Shift+R | Restart the active pane (agents ask for confirmation) |
Mod+, | Settings |
Mod+= / Mod+- / Mod+0 | Zoom in / out / reset |
Mod+Shift+/ | Search the active pane’s scrollback |
Esc | Dismiss the current view (Dashboard, Settings, diff, graph, …) — and exit Worktree View |
? | Keyboard cheatsheet overlay |
In-pane copy/paste on macOS: ⌘⇧C / ⌘V. Right-click pastes on all platforms. Ctrl+V with an
image on the clipboard pastes a screenshot.
- Settings & configuration — themes, editors, the agent catalog.
- Action verbs in the Switcher (Add pane here, New worktree, Toggle theme, …) are a Pro feature.