The same list is in GDM under Help → Keyboard shortcuts, and the menus show each command's keys beside it. On a Mac, ⌘ (Command) takes the place of Ctrl: ⌘N adds a download.
Everything can be done from the keyboard, and GDM works with screen readers (such as Narrator and NVDA on Windows): its windows, dialogs and menus tell them what each control is and its state, and the download list reads each download's name, status and size. The Categories pane reads as a tree (each category with its count, open or shut, selected or not), and the menu bar and every right-click menu as menus whose items can be run from there. On Linux, screen readers (Orca) don't read GDM's windows yet; the keyboard works there as everywhere.
Adding and finding
| Keys | What they do |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+N | Add a download (Add URL) |
| Ctrl+F | Find a download |
| F3 | Find the next match |
| Type a name | Jump to the download whose name starts with it |
The selected download
| Keys | What they do |
|---|---|
| Enter | Open the selected download (a double-click follows right-click → On Double click) |
| Alt+Enter | Properties of the selected download |
| Ctrl+M or F2 | Move or rename the selected download |
| Shift+F10 or the Menu key | Open the selected download's menu |
| Delete | Delete the selected downloads (asks first) |
| Shift+Delete | Delete the selected downloads and their files (asks first) |
Selecting
| Keys | What they do |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+A | Select all downloads |
| Ctrl+click | Select or unselect one more download |
| Shift+click | Select every download up to this one |
| Drag on blank space | Select the downloads in the box |
| Up / Down | Select the previous / next download |
| Shift+Up / Shift+Down | Make the selection longer or shorter |
| Ctrl+Up / Ctrl+Down | Move without changing the selection |
| Ctrl+Space | Select or unselect the download with the dotted outline |
| Page Up / Page Down | Move a page up / down |
| Home / End | Select the first / last download |
| Tab / Shift+Tab | Move between the download list and the Categories tree |
In the Categories tree, Up / Down choose a node, Left / Right close and open a branch, and Home / End go to the first / last node.
Menus and windows
| Keys | What they do |
|---|---|
| F10, or Alt pressed alone | Open the first menu (Tasks); on a Mac Ctrl+F2 |
| Alt + a menu's underlined letter | Open that menu (Windows and Linux) |
| Up / Down | Move through an open menu |
| Home / End | The first / last item of an open menu |
| Left / Right | The menu before / after; in a submenu, Left closes it |
| Enter, or an item's underlined letter | Run the highlighted item |
| Esc | Close a menu or dialog (an open drop-down list first) |
| Enter | In Download File Info: Start Download |
| Tab | Move between the Categories pane and the download list |
| Up / Down, Left / Right | In the Categories pane: the next category; close or open a branch |
| Shift+F10 or the Menu key | In the Categories pane: the selected category's menu (Properties, Add category, Delete) |
| Ctrl++ / Ctrl+− | Make everything larger / smaller, in every window (View → Interface size, 100 % to 200 %) |
| Ctrl+0 | Everything at its normal size (100 %) |
A window larger than the screen at a big interface size scrolls.
In dialogs
| Keys | What they do |
|---|---|
| Tab / Shift+Tab | Move to the next / previous control |
| Enter | The highlighted (default) button; a focused button presses that button |
| Space | Press a focused button, tick a check box, tick the selected row of a list |
| Esc | Close the dialog (an open drop-down list first) |
| Alt + an underlined letter | That button or control |
| Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab | The next / previous tab (also Ctrl+Page Down / Page Up) |
| Left / Right | The next tab of a focused tab strip; the next choice of a radio group |
| Up / Down | The next choice of a drop-down list or radio group; a number up or down |
| Alt+Down or F4 | Open a drop-down list |
| Type a name | Jump to the item that starts with it, in a list or a drop-down |
| Delete | Remove the selected item of a list (a login, an exception, a queue: asks first) |
In Add URL's address and Download File Info's Save As, Up / Down go through the addresses and folders used before.
Right-click any text box for Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Select all. A read-only value (an address, a path, a version) copies with Ctrl+C or its right-click menu.
In the Scheduler's time and date boxes, Up / Down and the number keys change the selected part, and Left / Right move between parts. In the calendar, the arrows move a day or a week, Page Up / Page Down a month, and Enter picks the day.
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