Keyboard shortcuts

This is the full reference for Gridmux’s keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures — the same cheat sheet you get in the app’s Quick Reference overlay (press F1).

A quick reference is built into the app

Press F1 anywhere in Gridmux to open the Quick Reference overlay, or Shift+F1 for the About panel. The list below mirrors that overlay.

Global

Action	Shortcut
Quick Reference (this cheat sheet)	F1
About Gridmux	Shift+F1
Settings	Ctrl+,
Toggle theme (dark / light)	Ctrl+Shift+T
Search in terminal	Ctrl+F
Increase font size	Ctrl+=
Decrease font size	Ctrl+-
Reset font size	Ctrl+0
Toggle DevTools	F12
Quit application	Ctrl+Q

Zoom is global — changing the font size applies to every open terminal at once. Inside the terminal search bar, use Enter / Shift+Enter to jump to the next and previous match, and Escape to close it.

Workspaces

Action	Shortcut / gesture
New workspace	Ctrl+T
Rename workspace	Double-click the tab name
Switch workspace	Click the tab
Move workspace	Drag the tab
Close workspace	Click the × on the tab

Terminals

Action	Shortcut / gesture
New PowerShell terminal	Ctrl+Shift+P
New CMD terminal	Ctrl+Shift+C
New PowerShell 7 terminal	Ctrl+Shift+7
New Git Bash terminal	Ctrl+Shift+G
New WSL terminal	Ctrl+Shift+W
Rename terminal	Double-click the panel title
Resize panel	Drag the panel border
Move / split panel	Drag the panel title
Close terminal	Click the × in the panel title

Shells depend on your OS

PowerShell 7, Git Bash and WSL only appear when they’re installed. On macOS/Linux the available shells are Bash, Zsh and Sh. See Terminals for the full list.

Mouse gestures

Gesture	What it does
Click a tab	Switch workspace
Double-click a tab or panel title	Rename it
Drag a tab	Reorder workspaces, or split a terminal into a new panel
Right-click a terminal selection	Copy the selected text

Paste into the active terminal with Ctrl+V.

Rebindable shortcuts

The shortcuts above are the defaults. Many of Gridmux’s keyboard shortcuts can be customized in Settings → Shortcuts, so you can remap them to whatever fits your muscle memory. The reserved keys (F1, Shift+F1, F12) and the per-shell spawn shortcuts are fixed.