Keyboard Shortcuts

You can use your keyboard to quickly accomplish many tasks in Vienna. To find the shortcuts for common commands, look in the menus (or see the list at the bottom of this page). Many items in Vienna such as the folder pane and the article list pane also have contextual menus. To see a contextual menu, press the Control key and click the item.

To do an action, press the shortcut keys indicated below.

Key Action
Single Key Shortcuts  
f Sets the input focus to the search window.
r Marks the selected articles read.
s Marks the current folder read then skips to the next folder with unread articles.
m Flags the selected articles.
< Displays the previous viewed article or web page.
> Displays the next viewed article or web page.
Spacebar Moves to the next unread article unless the current article has more text to scroll in which case it scrolls the current article up one page.
Command-U Moves to the next unread article.
Enter/Return Opens the selected article's original web page.
Delete/Backspace Moves the selected articles to the Trash folder. If this key is used in the Trash folder, the selected articles are permanently deleted.
General Shortcuts  
Command-N Create a new subscription.
Command-T Refreshes all subscriptions.
Shift-Command-T Refresh only those subscriptions selected in the folder list.
Command-Minus Stops any active refresh.
Command-P Print the selected articles.
Shift-Command-P Brings up the Page Setup panel.
Command-? Displays the Vienna help book.
Articles Shortcuts  
Shift-Command-M Flags the selected articles.
Shift-Command-R Marks the selected articles read.
Shift-Command-K Marks all articles in the selected folders read.
Window Shortcuts  
Command-W Closes the active tab window if one is open. Otherwise if no tabs are open, this closes the Vienna window.
Alt-Command-W Closes all tab windows. Note that this command replaces the Close Tab command on the File menu when the Alt key is held down.
Control-Command-Left Displays the previous tab window.
Control-Command-Right Displays the next tab window.
Shift-Command-W Closes the Vienna window but leaves Vienna running in the background. You can bring the window back by clicking on the Vienna dock icon or pressing Command-1.
Command-M Minimizes the Vienna window to the dock.
Command-0 Displays the activity log viewer window.
Command-1 Reopens the Vienna window if it was previously closed.
Command-2 Displays the Downloads window.
Browser Window Shortcuts  
Command-R Reloads the current web page.
Command-Period Cancels loading of the current web page.
Command-[/Command-Left Goes back to the previous web page.
Command-]/Command-Right Goes forward to the next web page.
Command-F Puts the input focus in the search field. Entering some text here and pressing Enter will search for that text on the current web page.
Command-G Searches for the next occurrence of the search text on the web page.