Keyboard Shortcuts

While some users are mouse-people, others may instead prefer controlling desktop apps with the keyboard. If it's your case, Nuvola has you covered because you can set and tweak both in-app and global keyboard shortcuts.

To change Keyboard Shortcuts Preferences, open Preferences dialog from the Menu button and click Keyboard Shortcuts option.

There are two kinds of keyboard shortcuts:

• In-app shortcuts work when Nuvola is running as the active window in the foreground.

• Global shortcuts work even when Nuvola is not the active window, or it is running hidden in the background. There are a few caveats though:

  • Global keyboard shortcuts must not conflict. If another app has grabbed Ctrl+P, Nuvola cannot use that for Play action, for example.
  • To minimize conflicts, Nuvola delivers bound global shortcuts only to the latest active Nuvola app. For example, if both Deezer and Spotify are running in the background and share a Ctrl+P keybinding, it will be delivered only to one of them - the one whose window was active least recently.

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