LivingSceneKeyboard shortcuts
The editing, presenting, outline, and text shortcuts, and where each one applies.
Shortcuts in LivingScene belong to whatever has focus — the scene, the outline, a text field, the speaker console. That's what keeps them from colliding, and it's why the same arrow key can do two different things.
Throughout, ⌘ is the Command key on macOS and Ctrl on Windows and Linux.
While editing
These belong to the scene itself. Click the scene once to give it focus — in a window you've just opened, or after using a panel, nothing here fires until you do. They also step aside while you're typing in a text field.
Looking around
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| L | Open or close the Outline — everything on the scene, including parts you can't click |
| O | Show every custom part at once; press again to hide |
| I | Add something to the scene |
| Esc | Step out of what's selected |
Editing what's selected
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| Enter | Step into the selected part |
| Delete or Backspace | Remove it |
| ⌘D | Duplicate it |
| ⌘G | Put what's selected together in one group |
| ⌘C | Copy |
| ⌘V | Paste |
Shift-click on the scene to select more than one thing at a time.
Moving around and reordering
Arrow keys walk the structure of your scene rather than nudging by pixels — a part's place comes from where it sits and how its group is laid out, so there's nothing to nudge.
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| ↑ | Select what contains this |
| ↓ | Select what's inside this |
| ← / → | Select the part before / after this one |
| ⌘↑ or ⌘← | Move it earlier |
| ⌘↓ or ⌘→ | Move it later |
Undo
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| ⌘Z | Undo |
| ⇧⌘Z | Redo |
| ⌘Y | Redo |
Undo covers what you changed by hand and what you asked for in the chat, and it names what it will undo rather than just saying Undo. Both redo shortcuts are accepted, so whichever one you're used to works.
Like everything else in this section, undo belongs to the scene — it won't fire while your focus is in the outline or a settings panel. Click the scene first.
While presenting
Press these in your speaker console — the window you keep in front of you. When the audience window is on a second display it deliberately never takes focus, so it won't receive keystrokes; on a single display it's the only window there, and it does.
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| →, Space, or Page Down | Next scene |
| ← or Page Up | Previous scene |
| Esc | Stop presenting |
In the chat
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| ⌘↵ | Send your message |
In the outline
While the outline has focus, these take over from the scene's own arrow keys.
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ | Move up and down the list |
| → | Show what's inside a row |
| ← | Hide what's inside it |
| Home / End | Jump to the first or last row |
In the scene overview
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| Alt← / Alt→ | Move the focused scene earlier or later in the deck |
In a text field
While you're editing wording in the settings panel:
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| ⌘B | Bold |
| ⌘I | Italic |
| ⌘E | Monospace |