AutoPaper’s shortcuts work only in its own windows and menus. It never claims a key combination system-wide, so it can’t collide with anything you already use. Each app follows its own platform’s conventions, so the keys differ between them.
These are the shortcuts in AutoPaper 0.1.0.
macOS
In the menus
These work while AutoPaper’s window is in front.
Keys
Command
Menu
⌘N
New Mood (opens Moods, with the new mood’s name ready to type)
File
⌥⌘N
New Wallpaper Now
File
⌘.
Cancel New Wallpaper, while one is being made
Wallpaper
⌘1, 2, 3
Now, Moods, History
View
⌃⌘S
Show or hide the sidebar
View
⌥⌘↑ / ↓
Move Mood Up / Down, or Move Keyword Up / Down, for the row selected in Moods
Edit
⌃⌘1, 2, 3
Keyword Weight: Must, Maybe, Avoid, for the selected keyword
The Wallpaper menu also has Like, Dislike, Make an Echo, Pause New Wallpapers and Restore My Wallpaper, without shortcuts.
In the menu bar menu
Keys
Command
⌥⌘N
New Wallpaper Now
⌘,
Settings…
⌘Q
Quit AutoPaper
↑↓Return
Choose any item, including Like, Dislike, Mood, Pause New Wallpapers and Restore My Wallpaper
Esc
Close the menu
Opening the menu from the keyboard: press ⌃F8 (Move focus to status menus, a macOS shortcut), use ←→ to reach AutoPaper’s icon, then press Return. On keyboards where the top row controls brightness and volume, add fn.
Now
Keys
What it does
⌘R
New Wallpaper Now, the toolbar button
Esc
Stop: the same button while a wallpaper is being made
Moods
Keys
What it does
Where
Return
Use the selected mood (double-click does the same)
The list of moods
⌫
Delete the selected mood, after asking (not the last one)
The list of moods, or a mood in the sidebar
Return / Esc
Keep the new name, or put the old one back
The mood’s name, at the top of its detail panel
Return
Add the keyword you typed, as Must
Add a keyword
Return
Rename the selected keyword; Return again keeps it, Esc cancels
The list of keywords
⌫
Remove the selected keyword (⌘Z brings it back)
The list of keywords
Return or Space
Show on Desktop
A thumbnail under Made in this mood, or on a mood’s card in Your Moods
History
Keys
Grid
Gallery
←→↑↓
Move the selection
←→: previous or next wallpaper in the filmstrip
Home / End
First or last wallpaper loaded
First or last wallpaper
Page Up / Page Down
Up or down about three rows
—
Return
Open the wallpaper’s actions: Show on Desktop, Like, Dislike, Make an Echo, Show Original and Echoes, Show in Finder, Delete…
Show on Desktop
Space
Quick Look, on or off
Quick Look, on or off
⌫ or ⌦
Delete…, after asking
Delete…, after asking
Tab
To the selected wallpaper’s Actions button
—
The welcome window
Keys
What it does
Return
Add the keyword you typed; elsewhere in the window, Make My First Wallpaper
Esc
Not Now
Adding your own
macOS lets you give a shortcut to any command in an app’s menus: open System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts… → App Shortcuts, click +, choose AutoPaper, type the menu command’s name exactly (for example Pause New Wallpapers), and press the keys you want. This works for the commands in the menus above, while AutoPaper is the active app; it doesn’t reach the menu bar menu. AutoPaper’s actions in the Shortcuts app (see the Reference) can have keyboard shortcuts of their own too.
Windows
Anywhere in the window
Keys
What it does
CtrlN
On the Moods page, New mood. On every other page, New wallpaper now
Alt←
Back, like the title bar’s Back button
Moods
Keys
What it does
Where
Enter
Use the mood (in a narrow window, open it)
A mood in the list
F2
Rename…
A mood in the list
Delete
Delete…, after asking (not the last mood: it says why)
A mood in the list
Alt↑ / ↓
Move up / Move down
A mood in the list, or a keyword
ShiftF10 or the Menu key
The mood’s menu: Use, Duplicate, Rename…, Move up, Move down, Delete…; or a keyword’s: Move up, Move down, Remove
A mood, or a keyword
Arrow keys
Must, Maybe or Avoid
A keyword’s weight
Enter / Esc
Keep the new text, or put the old text back
A mood’s name, or a keyword’s text
Enter
Add the keyword you typed, as Must
Add a keyword
History
Keys
What it does
Enter
Show on desktop (double-click does the same)
ShiftF10 or the Menu key
The wallpaper’s menu: Show on desktop, Like, Dislike, Make an echo, Show original and echoes, Show in File Explorer, Delete…
The notification-area icon
Press WinB to move focus to the notification area (a Windows shortcut), and the arrow keys to reach AutoPaper’s icon; it may be among the hidden icons. Then:
Keys
What it does
Enter or Space
Show AutoPaper
ShiftF10 or the Menu key
AutoPaper’s menu: Like, Dislike, Mood, New wallpaper now, Pause new wallpapers, Restore my wallpaper, Show AutoPaper, Settings, Quit AutoPaper
In dialogs that ask before deleting or clearing something, the safe button (Cancel or Close) is the default, so Enter never deletes by accident.
Linux
Press Ctrl? in AutoPaper for its own list of these, in the Keyboard shortcuts window.
Anywhere in the window
Keys
What it does
CtrlR
New wallpaper now
CtrlN
New mood, while Moods is showing
Alt1, 2, 3
Now, Moods, History
Ctrl,
Preferences
Ctrl?
Keyboard shortcuts
F10
The main menu
CtrlW
Close the window (AutoPaper keeps running in the background)
CtrlQ
Quit AutoPaper
Now
AltL Like, AltD Dislike, AltN New wallpaper now: the underlined letters in the buttons’ names.
Moods
Keys
What it does
Where
Enter
Use the mood (in a narrow window, open it)
A mood in the list
Delete
Delete…, after asking (not the last mood: it says why)
A mood in the list
Alt↑ / ↓
Move up / Move down
A mood in the list, or a keyword
ShiftF10 or the Menu key
The mood’s menu: Use, Duplicate, Rename…, Delete…
A mood in the list
Enter
Rename the mood, add the keyword you typed (as Must), or rename a keyword
The mood’s Name, Add a keyword, a keyword’s text
CtrlZ
Bring back the keyword you removed last
The keywords
History
Keys
What it does
Enter, or ShiftF10 or the Menu key
The wallpaper’s actions: Show on desktop, Like, Dislike, Make an echo, Show original and echoes, Show in Files, Delete…
In the welcome screen, AltM is Make my first wallpaper and AltS is Skip. In dialogs that ask before deleting something, Enter and Esc both cancel; Esc closes Preferences.
On every system
Pause, Like and Dislike have no shortcut of their own; they’re in the menu bar or notification-area menu, the window, and (on Windows and Linux) the notification for each new wallpaper.
Each app is meant to work entirely from the keyboard, with Tab and the system’s usual keys, including reordering moods and keywords and every action on a past wallpaper. Where something doesn’t, that’s a bug: please open an issue.
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