Desktop Minder is mostly a mouse program, but the keys it does answer are listed here, grouped by where they work. A key that works in an editor works only while that editor has the focus, so Ctrl+Z in a picture doesn't reach into a text box on another desktop. Where a key is missing from a group, it isn't an oversight on this page: the program doesn't answer it yet, and the right-click menu is the way.

Everywhere

F1 and Ctrl+, are caught at the window, so they work wherever the focus is.

Folder Listing

Click a row first so the listing has the keyboard.

Delete, F5, Ctrl+A and F2 leave the key to the text box while a name or a cell is being typed. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+X aren't answered; use the right-click menu. The Folders page says more.

With the Mouse

These keys change what a drag or a double-click means:

Launcher Panes

See Launchers. In the Icon Gallery, F2 renames the picked icon, and Enter or Esc ends the name.

Text

Plain and Rich Text

Web Pages and Word Documents

On the Edit tab, where you change one paragraph at a time:

In the Styles pull-out, Enter in the font box applies the font you typed, and in the theme box it does what the button beside it says. The Text page has these in its own table.

Pictures

These work on the Change tab, while the picture itself has the focus (click it first).

With a Crop to a Ratio or Size frame up, Enter crops, Esc lets the frame go, and the arrow keys move the frame a pixel at a time (ten with Shift) instead of scrolling the picture. While the frame is up, Delete and Ctrl+C aren't answered, rather than clear or copy pixels you can't see. The mouse wheel zooms around the pointer. See Pictures.

Audio and Video

Playing a Film or a Recording

While something is playing in a window (the Jukebox, or a film in the View), Desktop Minder is in front, and the pointer or focus is over the player:

Full Screen

The Audio Editor

The Video Editor

The MIDI Editor

In the Notes, Roll and Source views, with the view clicked so it has the focus:

Mail

A mailbox is a folder, so on its messages the folder keys work: F5, Ctrl+A and Delete, and F2 and Ctrl+V as they do in any listing. In the message you are writing, Delete takes the attached file you have selected off the list. Reply, Reply All and Forward are on the message bar and have no keyboard shortcut. See Email.

Calendar and Contacts

The mouse wheel steps the month. A contact book is a folder, so the folder keys work on its cards. See Contacts and Calendar.

Web Pages

The browser's own shortcuts are switched off in the View, so Back and Ahead are the arrows on the bar. See Web Sites.

When a Key Does Nothing

The most common reason is the focus. A listing, a pane, a picture and a timeline each answer keys only when they have the focus, so click on them first. The second is that a text box has it: while you type a name or a cell, Delete, F5, Ctrl+A and Ctrl+V belong to the text. And a few keys, such as Ctrl+C in a folder, simply aren't answered yet.