Keyboard shortcuts¶

Kubus is designed to be driven from the keyboard. The command palette is the hub, and almost everything is reachable through it.

Global¶

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl`+`K` / `Cmd`+`K`	Open the command palette

Resource tables¶

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl`+`F` / `Cmd`+`F`	Focus the table search
`s` / `:` / `/`	Focus the table search (on a row that can scale, `s` scales it instead)
`c`	Create a resource of this kind
`Up` / `Down` or `j` / `k`	Move the row cursor
`Enter`	Open details for the focused row
`Shift`+`F10`	Open the focused row's actions menu

Single-key row actions¶

Focus a row (click one of its cells, or move there with the arrow keys) and a single key runs an action on it. Each key only works where the row has that action, and it goes through the same dialogs as the row menu, which prints the key next to each item. The keys never fire while you type in the filter box, the YAML editor or a terminal.

Key	Action	Applies to
`l`	Logs	Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, ReplicaSets, Services, Jobs
`x`	Shell	Pods with a running container. On a Node, a node shell after you confirm.
`f`	Port forward	Pods, Services, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, ReplicaSets
`s`	Scale	Deployments, StatefulSets, ReplicaSets
`r`	Restart, after you confirm	Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets. A ReplicaSet restarts its pods.
`e`	Open the Manifest tab	Every kind
`Del` or `Backspace`	Delete, after you confirm	Every kind

On a protected cluster, the confirmations for delete, restart, node shell and scale to zero ask you to type the resource name first.

Details panel¶

Shortcut	Action
`e`	Open the Manifest tab
`Alt`+`Left`	Back to the previous resource
`Esc`	Close the panel and return to the list

Manifest editing¶

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl`+`S` / `Cmd`+`S`	Open Review & apply for your staged edits, in the tree and the YAML view. Inside the review, apply once the dry-run passes. An inline value you are still editing is committed first.
`Ctrl`+`Enter` / `Cmd`+`Enter`	Create, in a create dialog. Edited YAML gets its server dry-run first, and any findings stop it so you can read them.

Bottom dock (logs & terminals)¶

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl`+`W` / `Cmd`+`W`	Close the focused log or terminal tab
`Alt`+`Page Up` / `Alt`+`Page Down`	Previous / next tab in the focused dock
`Ctrl`+`Page Up` / `Ctrl`+`Page Down`	Previous / next tab in the focused dock (desktop app)

Tab-cycling shortcuts switch page tabs when focus is outside the dock.

When the dock is empty, Ctrl+W / Cmd+W closes the Kubus window as usual.

Desktop app only

Closing a tab with Ctrl+W / Cmd+W is handled by the Kubus desktop app. In a browser tab that shortcut is reserved by the browser and closes the tab instead; use the tab's × button there.

Inside the command palette¶

Key	Action
type	Search resources, kinds and pages
`Up` / `Down`	Move between results
`Enter`	Open / activate the selected result
`Tab` / `Right`	Show actions for the selected resource
`Right` / `Enter`	Expand a folded group of pods; `Left` folds it again
`Tab`	Reveal the star to favourite a result
`>`	Switch to command mode (app commands)
`Esc`	Step back, or close the palette

In the actions list, an action that also has a single-key row action shows its key on the right.

App commands (`>`)¶

Type > in the palette to run:

Command
Toggle dark / light mode
Toggle terminal dock
Go to Overview
Go to Events
Go to Topology
Go to Helm Releases
Go to Port Forwards
Go to Diff

The fast path

Ctrl+K → type a name → Tab → pick Logs or Shell. That single muscle memory covers most of day-to-day work.