Keyboard Shortcuts

Ctrl+Q

ShowQ

Toggles between three states:

  • show electron density peaks
  • show electron density peaks with bonds
  • hides electron density peaks

 

Ctrl+H

ShowH

Toggles between three states:

  • show hydrogen atoms
  • show hydrogens with internal h-bonds
  • hides hydrogen atoms

 

Ctrl+T

ShowStr

Toggles between three states:

  • show structure only
  • show show structure and text
  • show text only

 

Ctrl+I

sel -i

Inverts the current selection.

Ctrl+A

sel -a

Selects all atoms currently visible, however if labels are active (i.e. one or more label is selected) then this selects all labels.

Ctrl+U

sel -u

Deselects all of current selection.

Ctrl+G

mode grow

Enters mode grow.  See also symmetry operations.

Ctrl+O

reap

Brings up the Open File dialogue.

F2

swapbg

Swaps the background between white and coloured.

F3

labels

Toggles labels on/off.

F4

grad -i

Toggles gradient background on/off.

F5

 

Go to the work menu.

F6

 

Go to the view menu.

F7

 

Go to the tools menu.

F8

 

Go to the info menu.

F11

Fullscreen(true/false)

Toggles full screen mode on/off.

Shift+F11

HtmlPanelVisible

Toggles html panel on/off.

Esc

 

Exits current mode (some modes, like mode match, can override this), clears current selection and text in the command line

Break

 

Interrupts the solution/refinement after the current cycle.

Del (Ctrl+Backspace on Mac)

kill

Deletes selected object