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Tray and Shortcuts
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Closing the window keeps Lanyard running in the system tray (the notification area on Windows, the menu bar on macOS). Right-click the icon for:
- Open Lanyard
- One menu per git provider, titled with the active account (for example GitHub · work). Pick another account to switch, or None (use default SSH keys) to deactivate.
- Test active accounts
- Hosts: your servers (connect, test, switch key) and git hosts (test, use an account).
- Manage hosts…, Manage keys…, ssh-agent…
- Start at login
- Quit Lanyard
The tray updates by itself when you change something in the app, the CLI, or an editor.
Press Ctrl/⌘+K, or click the search box in the top bar.

Type to filter, use ↑/↓ to move and Enter to run. It can:
- switch the active account on any provider
- connect to any server
- switch the key any server uses
- run actions: test accounts, add an account or host, generate a key, scan a host
- jump to any page
- change the theme or accent colour
Ctrl on Windows and Linux, ⌘ on macOS.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+K | Command palette |
| Ctrl+1 … 8 | Go to a page, in sidebar order |
| Alt+← / → | Back / forward |
| Ctrl+N | Add git account |
| Ctrl+Shift+N | Add host |
| Ctrl+, | Settings |
| Ctrl++ / - / 0 | Zoom in / out / reset |
| Ctrl+W | Close the window (keeps running in the tray) |
| Ctrl+Q | Quit Lanyard |
On Windows and Linux, the ☰ button at the top left opens the app menu (File, Edit, View, Go, History, Help). Help has shortcuts to the SSH folder, Lanyard's data folder and Backups.
This wiki is generated from docs/wiki in the repository. To suggest a change, edit the file there and open a pull request.
Start
Using the app
- Git accounts
- Hosts (remote servers)
- Keys
- ssh-agent
- Known hosts
- Backups
- Settings
- Tray, palette and shortcuts
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