Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts

This page lists the keyboard shortcuts of the Windows version of Rookparcel, then those of the GTK version, the macOS app and the Web UI. Most of them are also written beside their menu items.

Main window (Windows)

Keys	What they do
Ctrl+O	File > Add Torrent...
Ctrl+U	File > Add Torrent from URL... (a magnet link or web address on the clipboard is filled in)
Ctrl+N	File > Create New Torrent...
Ctrl+P	Options > Preferences
Ctrl+G	Options > Setup Guide
Ctrl+F	Moves to the search box on the toolbar (when the toolbar is shown). In the Files tab, moves to the Files tab's filter box instead.
Ctrl+A	Selects every torrent in the list. In the Files tab, selects the files the filter shows.
Ctrl+S	Start the selected torrents
Ctrl+Shift+P	Pause the selected torrents
Ctrl+T	Stop the selected torrents
Del	Remove the selected torrents
Shift+Del	Remove And > Delete Data: removes the torrents and deletes their files
Enter	Properties of the selected torrents (in the torrent list)
Shift+F10 or the menu key	Opens the right-click menu under the focused row
Alt+F4	Closes the window. With Close to tray on (the default), Rookparcel keeps running in the tray.

With Confirm when deleting torrents on in Preferences, Del and Shift+Del ask first. File > Exit has no shortcut; see Tray, notifications and startup.

Ctrl+G and the Setup Guide are new in 1.1.62, and the Files tab's filter box in 1.1.56; neither is in a published release yet.

Mouse shortcuts that go with them:

• Double-clicking a torrent that has finished opens its folder; double-clicking one that has not opens Properties.
• In the Files tab, double-clicking a file or pressing Enter on it opens it.

The search box and the Files tab filter

Keys	In the toolbar's search box	In the Files tab's filter box
Escape	Empties the box and moves to the torrent list	Empties the box and moves to the file list
Enter	With Filter torrents chosen, moves to the list. With a search source chosen, searches it.	Moves to the file list
Ctrl+A	Selects the box's text	Selects the box's text (so does Ctrl+F)
Alt+Down	Opens the box's drop-down menu (sources, Manage Sources...)

While you type in either box, Del and Ctrl+A edit the text, not the list. See Searching for torrents and Torrent details and files.

Add New Torrent window

In the file list of the Add New Torrent window:

Keys	What they do
Space	Ticks or unticks the selected files and folders
Right or +	Opens the focused folder
Left or -	Closes the focused folder; on a file or a closed folder, Left goes to its parent folder
Enter	Opens or closes the focused folder

See Adding torrents.

Preferences and other windows

Keys	What they do
F1 in Preferences	Shows the help of the focused setting beside it, and in the help pane under the pages
Escape	Closes a dialog like Cancel. In the Setup Guide it is Skip.
Tab, Enter, Escape in the Search Torrents window	Move between its controls, act on the focused one, close it

The help in Preferences also appears as a tooltip when you point at a setting. In the main window, a menu item or toolbar button you point at is described in the status bar. These help texts are new in 1.1.57; not in a published release yet.

See Preferences reference.

Menu keys

Every menu can be reached with Alt and the underlined letter, as in other Windows programs: Alt+F for File, Alt+O for Options, Alt+H for Help, then the underlined letter of an item.

GTK version (Linux, BSD)

The GTK version has these shortcuts:

Keys	What they do
Ctrl+O	Add Torrent...
Ctrl+U	Add Torrent from URL...
Ctrl+N	Create New Torrent...
Ctrl+F	Moves to the search box
Ctrl+P	Preferences
Ctrl+G	Setup Guide
Ctrl+Q	Exit: quits Rookparcel, also when the window would close to the tray
Delete	Remove
Shift+Delete	Remove and delete the data
Ctrl+A	Selects every torrent
F1 in Preferences	Shows the focused setting's help
Escape	Empties the search box or the Files tab's filter; closes dialogs

What differs from Windows:

• There is no shortcut for Start, Pause, Stop or Properties. Use the toolbar or the right-click menu.
• Ctrl+A does not select all files in the Files tab.
• Ctrl+Q quits; on Windows there is no quit shortcut.
• The Add New Torrent window's keys are the same as on Windows.

macOS

The macOS app uses ⌘ (Command) where Windows uses Ctrl, and the Mac's own keys where they differ. The shortcuts are written beside the menu items in the menu bar.

Keys	What they do
⌘+,	Rookparcel > Preferences
⌘+G	Rookparcel > Setup Guide
⌘+H	Hides Rookparcel (⌥+⌘+H hides the other apps)
⌘+Q	Quit Rookparcel, also when the window would close to the menu bar
⌘+O	File > Add Torrent...
⌘+U	File > Add Torrent from URL...
⌘+N	File > Create New Torrent...
⌘+W	File > Close Window: with Close to tray on, Rookparcel keeps running in the menu bar
⌘+A	Edit > Select All: every torrent in the list, or the text in a box
⌘+F	Edit > Find...: moves to the search box on the toolbar; in the Files tab, to its filter box
⌥+⌘+T	View > Show Toolbar
⌃+⌘+S	View > Show Sidebar (the category list)
⌃+⌘+F	View > Enter Full Screen
⌘+S	Torrent > Start
⇧+⌘+P	Torrent > Pause
⌘+T	Torrent > Stop
⌘+⌫, or ⌫ in the list	Torrent > Remove
⌥+⌘+⌫	Torrent > Remove And Delete Data: removes the torrents and deletes their files
⌘+I, or Return in the list	Torrent > Properties
⌘+M	Window > Minimize

What differs from Windows:

• Preferences is ⌘+,, as in other Mac apps, not Ctrl+P.
• Remove is ⌘+⌫ (Delete), and Properties ⌘+I.
• The right-click menu of the torrent list has the same items as the Torrent menu; Control-click opens it too.
• Edit has the usual Undo, Cut, Copy and Paste for text boxes.

The native macOS app is not in a published release yet.

Web UI

In the Web UI's torrent list (click the list first so it has the keyboard):

Keys	What they do
Up, Down, Page Up, Page Down, Home, End	Move the selection
Shift with those keys	Extends the selection
Ctrl with those keys	Moves the focus without changing the selection
Ctrl+Space	Adds the focused row to the selection, or takes it out
Space	Pause the selected torrents
Delete	Remove
Shift+Delete	Remove and delete the data
Ctrl+A	Selects every torrent
Shift+F10 or the menu key	Opens the right-click menu
Escape	Closes an open menu

Elsewhere in the Web UI:

Keys	What they do
Ctrl+P	Opens Preferences
Escape in the filter box	Empties it and moves to the list
Enter in the filter box	Moves to the list
F1 in Preferences	Shows the focused setting's help
Ctrl+Enter in Preferences	OK
Enter in the Advanced page's value field	Sets the value
Escape in Preferences	Closes it like Cancel

On a Mac, Command works wherever the Web UI says Ctrl. Your browser's own shortcuts may take some keys first. See Web UI.