Keyboard Shortcuts

This page is the exhaustive reference for every keyboard shortcut in Podscape. Shortcuts are discovered directly from source code and reflect the current implementation.

Platform notation used in this document:

⌘ — Command key (macOS only)
Ctrl — Control key (Windows / Linux)
Where a shortcut says ⌘/Ctrl, use ⌘ on macOS and Ctrl on Windows/Linux.

Global Shortcuts

These shortcuts are active anywhere in the application, regardless of which section is open.

Shortcut	Platform	Action
`⌘` `K`	macOS	Open / close the Command Palette
`Ctrl` `K`	Windows / Linux	Open / close the Command Palette

Command Palette

Opened with ⌘K / Ctrl+K, the Command Palette lets you jump to any section or navigate directly to a specific resource by name.

Key	Action
Type to search	Filter sections and resources by name or keyword
`↓` Arrow Down	Move selection down through results
`↑` Arrow Up	Move selection up through results
`Enter`	Jump to the selected section or open the selected resource
`Escape`	Close the palette without navigating

How search works

The palette searches two pools simultaneously:

Sections — matched against the section label, its internal ID, and a set of topic keywords (see table below). Up to 5 section results are shown.
Resources — matched against the metadata.name of every resource that is already loaded in the current context. Up to 12 resource results are shown.

Selecting a section result navigates to that section. Selecting a resource result switches to the correct namespace and section and opens the resource’s detail panel.

Section Quick-Jump Reference

The table below lists every section searchable through the Command Palette, along with all keywords that will surface it in results.

Section Label	Internal ID	Search Keywords
Dashboard	`dashboard`	home, overview
Pods	`pods`	workload
Deployments	`deployments`	workload
DaemonSets	`daemonsets`	workload
StatefulSets	`statefulsets`	workload
ReplicaSets	`replicasets`	workload
Jobs	`jobs`	workload, batch
CronJobs	`cronjobs`	workload, batch, schedule
HPAs	`hpas`	autoscaling, scale
PodDisruptionBudgets	`pdbs`	pdb, disruption
Services	`services`	network, svc
Ingresses	`ingresses`	network, routing
Ingress Classes	`ingressclasses`	network
Network Policies	`networkpolicies`	network, policy
Endpoints	`endpoints`	network
ConfigMaps	`configmaps`	config, cm
Secrets	`secrets`	config, credentials
PVCs	`pvcs`	storage, volume, persistent
PVs	`pvs`	storage, volume, persistent
Storage Classes	`storageclasses`	storage
Service Accounts	`serviceaccounts`	rbac, auth
Roles	`roles`	rbac, auth, permission
Cluster Roles	`clusterroles`	rbac, auth
Role Bindings	`rolebindings`	rbac, auth
Cluster Role Bindings	`clusterrolebindings`	rbac, auth
Nodes	`nodes`	cluster, infrastructure
Namespaces	`namespaces`	cluster
CRDs	`crds`	cluster, custom, resources
Events	`events`	observe, logs, warning
Metrics	`metrics`	observe, cpu, memory, usage
Unified Logs	`unifiedlogs`	observe, logs, stream
Port Forwards	`portforwards`	network, tunnel, forward
Network Map	`network`	topology, visualize
Connectivity	`connectivity`	test, ping, curl
Debug Pods	`debugpod`	debug, shell, exec
Security Hub	`security`	scan, trivy, kubesec, vulnerability
TLS Certificates	`tls`	cert, ssl, x509, expiry
GitOps	`gitops`	flux, argo, argocd, kustomize, gitops
Cost & Waste	`costview`	cost, billing, efficiency, waste, resources
Helm Charts	`helm`	helm, releases, charts, package
Settings	`settings`	config, preferences, theme

Resource List

The resource list table is the main panel for all Kubernetes resource types (pods, deployments, services, etc.). The following shortcuts are active when focus is not inside a text input or textarea.

Key	Action
`Escape`	Close an open context menu; or close an open YAML viewer / loading spinner; or close an open delete confirmation dialog; or close an open port-forward dialog; or close an open scale dialog
`Delete`	Open the bulk-delete confirmation for the currently selected rows (if one or more rows are selected), or open the single-resource delete confirmation for the highlighted resource
`Backspace`	Same as `Delete` — opens bulk-delete or single-resource delete confirmation

Note: Delete and Backspace only trigger when focus is outside any <input> or <textarea> element.

Pod Detail Panel

The following shortcuts are active when a pod is selected and its detail panel is open. They do not fire when focus is inside a text input or textarea.

Shortcut	Platform	Action
`⌘` `T`	macOS	Open an interactive shell (exec) into the selected container
`Ctrl` `T`	Windows / Linux	Open an interactive shell (exec) into the selected container
`⌘` `L`	macOS	Switch to the Logs tab and enter fullscreen log view
`Ctrl` `L`	Windows / Linux	Switch to the Logs tab and enter fullscreen log view
`⌘` `D`	macOS	Close fullscreen log view (only when log fullscreen is active)
`Ctrl` `D`	Windows / Linux	Close fullscreen log view (only when log fullscreen is active)
`Escape`	All	Close fullscreen log view (when fullscreen is active)

Exec / Terminal Panel

The exec panel is the full-screen terminal that opens when you shell into a container.

Shortcut	Platform	Action
`⌘` `D`	macOS	Close the exec panel (only fires when focus is not in an input or textarea)
`Ctrl` `D`	Windows / Linux	Close the exec panel (only fires when focus is not in an input or textarea)
`Escape`	All	Close the exec panel (only when the file-transfer sub-panel is not open)
`Tab`	All	Sent to the PTY as a tab-completion character (browser focus-navigation is suppressed)
`Enter` (in path input)	All	Submit a file upload or download when the remote path field is focused

Note: ⌘D / Ctrl+D is shown in the exec panel header as a reminder hint.

Connectivity Tester

The Connectivity Tester panel (connectivity section) supports one keyboard shortcut.

Shortcut	Platform	Action
`⌘` `Enter`	macOS	Run the connectivity test (when the form is valid and ready to run)
`Ctrl` `Enter`	Windows / Linux	Run the connectivity test (when the form is valid and ready to run)

Delete Confirmation Dialog

When a resource delete confirmation dialog is open and you have typed the resource name into the confirmation field:

Key	Action
`Enter`	Confirm and execute the deletion (only when the typed name matches the resource name)

Notes

All ⌘/Ctrl shortcuts use e.metaKey on macOS and e.ctrlKey on Windows/Linux — this is detected automatically via src/renderer/utils/platform.ts.
Shortcuts that require focus to be outside a text field check document.activeElement.tagName !== 'INPUT' and !== 'TEXTAREA' before firing.
The terminal inside ExecPanel uses xterm.js. Standard terminal key sequences (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Z, arrow history, etc.) are handled natively by the PTY and are not listed here as they are shell-level, not app-level, shortcuts.