Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard, Mouse and Controller Shortcuts

PaperBunkr is fully keyboard-navigable — arrow keys move through every grid and sidebar, Tab reaches every control in order, and context menus open with the Menu key or Shift+F10.

Every shortcut on this page is an action with one or more inputs bound to it: a key, a mouse button, a wheel direction, or a controller button. All of them are remappable in Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts (see Remapping). The tables below list the defaults. Shortcuts never fire while you are typing in a text box, except Esc, the browser-back key and Ctrl+P.

App-wide

Action	Default
Close the current overlay / clear the selection	Esc
Back / forward	the browser Back / Forward keys, mouse side buttons 4 / 5, a two-finger swipe left / right
Quick open	Ctrl+P
Open Preferences	Ctrl+,
Cycle screens forward / back	Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Undo / redo a metadata edit	Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y
Focus the search box	Ctrl+F (or / in the Library); Home, Books, Library and Preferences have one
Refresh the screen	F5 (Library, Books, Home, Insights, Wanted, Smart Lists, Reading Lists, Continuity)
New list / collection	Ctrl+N (Smart Lists, Reading Lists)
Save	Ctrl+S (the editors and Smart Lists, even from inside a text field)
Previous / next tab	Ctrl+PageUp / Ctrl+PageDown, or the controller's bumpers. On a screen with tabs (detail screens, Insights, Wanted, Continuity, the editors, Preferences' sections) they switch tab; Home steps the spotlight; elsewhere they switch screen
Pin / unpin the sidebar	Shift+F6
Quit	Ctrl+Q
Move around the left-hand rail	↑ ↓, Home, End; → goes into the screen; Enter / Space opens the screen. From inside a screen, ← at its left edge returns to the rail
Move up/down in the sidebar	↑ ↓, Home, End (fixed)

Library grid

Action	Default
Select all visible	Ctrl+A
Remove selected item(s)	Delete
Refresh	F5
Show / hide the preview panel	Ctrl+B
Edit properties (bulk edit for several)	Ctrl+I
Rating: none / 1–5 stars	Alt+Shift+0 … Alt+Shift+5
Mark as read / unread	Alt+Shift+R / Alt+Shift+U
Show in Explorer	Ctrl+G
Copy data / paste data	Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V
Copy file paths	Ctrl+Shift+C
Clear search and return to grid	Esc (while the search box has text)

Menu entries and the selection bar show whatever you have bound, so they stay correct after a remap.

Books grid

Action	Default
Select all	Ctrl+A
Edit properties of the selection	Ctrl+I
Remove the selection	Delete

Detail screens

Action	Default
Continue reading	Ctrl+Enter
Edit properties of the selected issues	Ctrl+I
Back to the previous screen	Backspace, or Esc

Smart Lists

Action	Default
New smart list	Ctrl+N
Duplicate the open list	Ctrl+D
Save the open list	Ctrl+S

Reader

Defaults mirror ComicRack CE's keymap (with two deliberate exceptions — page-turn is Left/Right instead of CE's PageUp/Alt+Left).

Navigation

Action	Default	Where it applies
Page back (spatial left)	←	paged, not zoomed
Page forward (spatial right)	→	paged, not zoomed
Page back / forward (vertical paging)	↑ / ↓	top-to-bottom paged books
Next page (reading order)	PageDown, Space, media next-track, mouse side button 5, controller A / right bumper	paged modes
Previous page (reading order)	PageUp, Shift+Space, media previous-track, mouse side button 4, controller B / left bumper	paged modes
First / last page	Home / End	paged modes
Pan left / right / up / down	← → ↑ ↓	paged, zoomed in
Scroll left / right / up / down	← → ↑ ↓	continuous modes
Scroll up / down a page	PageUp / PageDown, mouse side buttons 4 / 5	continuous modes
Scroll to start / end	Home / End	continuous modes
Toggle auto-scroll	S	continuous modes
Previous / next bookmark	Ctrl+PageUp / Ctrl+PageDown	always
Back to previous position (after a jump)	Alt+←	always
Report a bad page	X	always
Reader command palette	Ctrl+K	always
Go to page…	Ctrl+G	always

The mouse side buttons turn pages in the reader while Preferences → Reader → Mouse side buttons turn pages is on (the default); with it off they go back / forward like everywhere else.

Zoom & Fit

Action	Default
Zoom in / out	Z / Shift+Z, or Ctrl + wheel up / down (zooms around the cursor)
Fit: Original size	1
Fit: Fit all	2
Fit: Fit width	3
Fit: Fit height	4
Fit: Best fit	5

Display and tools

Action	Default
Toggle fullscreen	F, F11
Rotate clockwise / counter-clockwise	R / Shift+R
Next reader profile	P
Toggle reading stats	H
Toggle warm tint	W
Toggle guided panel view	G
Toggle the info panel	I
Pin this page as a reference	Shift+P
Clip a region of this page	Ctrl+Shift+C
Copy page (or spread)	Ctrl+C
Toggle the performance overlay	Ctrl+Shift+P

Controller (Xbox / XInput)

The controller works in the whole app, not just the reader, while Preferences → Reader → Use a game controller is on and the PaperBunkr window is the active one.

Everywhere:

Action	Default
Move	D-pad or left stick
Open / press the focused item	A
Back / close	B
Context menu	Y
Previous / next tab (or screen)	left / right bumper
Scroll	right stick
Quick open	Start

In the reader these are replaced by the reading controls:

Action	Default
Next / previous page	A or right bumper / B or left bumper
Turn, pan or scroll	D-pad or left stick (what happens depends on whether the page is zoomed, as with the arrow keys)
Pan / scroll continuously	right stick
Zoom	right trigger in, left trigger out
Show / hide the toolbar	Y
Fullscreen	X
Command palette	Start
Close the reader	Back

Every controller button can be changed in Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts: click Add shortcut… on a row and press the controller button (the controller must be switched on in Preferences → Reader). The "All screens" group lists the shared ones, including the arrows, Enter, Space, F2, Delete, Home, End, Page Up and Page Down that act on whatever has focus; moving one of those to another key makes that key do it everywhere. Rename, remove and toggle-the-focused-item have no controller button by default, so you can give them one if you want them.

Books (EPUB, FB2, MOBI)

Action	Default
Next page	→, PageDown, Space
Previous page	←, PageUp
Announce the reading position (for screen readers)	Ctrl+Shift+W

These work whether the focus is on the reader's toolbar or inside the page itself.

Compare

Action	Default
Next / previous page	→ PageDown / ← PageUp
First page	Home
Flip between the two	Space or F
Switch comparison mode	M
Reset zoom and pan	0
Keep A / keep B	1 / 2

Plugin commands

Every enabled Library plugin command gets a shortcut that runs it on the selected issues: Ctrl+Shift+F1 to F12 for the first twelve, or the key the plugin asks for in its manifest (shortcut="Ctrl+Alt+K"). They appear under Plugins in Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts, where you can change or remove them, and next to the command in the right-click Plugins menu. Your choice is kept if you switch the plugin off and on again.

Dropdown boxes open when you click them, or press Enter, Space or Alt+↓ while they have focus; the arrow keys alone just move on to the next control.

A text box you reach with the arrow keys (or a controller) is only highlighted, so the arrows keep moving you around: press Enter (or F2, or click it) to type, and Esc to step back out. Tabbing into a box, or Ctrl+F for search, lets you type straight away.

Remapping

1. Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts. Every action is listed on the left under its group, one line each, with its first shortcut (and +2 and so on when there are more). Pick one and its page opens on the right, with every input bound to it as a chip. Type in the search box to find an action by name or by key (ctrl wheel, d-pad left), use All / Keyboard & mouse / Controller to narrow the list by device, and Customised only to see what you have changed (a dot marks those actions).
2. Click Add shortcut…, then press the key (with Ctrl, Shift or Alt held for a combination), click the middle or a side mouse button, or turn the wheel (also with modifiers). Esc cancels. Left and right clicks are ignored — a click is how the box got focus.
3. Click the ✕ on a chip to remove it, or Reset to default to put that action back to its defaults. An action with no chips is simply unbound. The controller's sticks and triggers are fixed (a lock marks them) and have no ✕.
4. Conflicts are marked quietly: a small warning icon on the action in the list and on the chip, and a note on the action's page that names the other action, says whether it can take the press instead, and has Show that action to jump to it. Two actions conflict only when one input would reach both at once: a key may be page-turn, pan and scroll (only one is ever active), but an always-available action shares nothing with them. Nothing is blocked.
5. Import Layout… / Export Layout… save and load your whole layout as a file — handy for moving between machines or sharing. Layouts exported by earlier versions still import. Reset to Defaults reverts everything.

With the keyboard or a controller: Up and Down move through the list, Right goes into the action's page and Left comes back to the same row.

Your changes are stored in keymap.json next to the PaperBunkr database (only what you changed, so new defaults in later versions still reach you). Controller bindings can be viewed and removed in the editor today; adding a new controller binding there is not supported yet.