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Shortcuts & settings
Global — anywhere on your Mac
| ⌥` | Show or hide the panel |
| ⌥⇧` | Go to the next session waiting for you |
| ⌥V | Dictate a prompt into the active session |
All three can be rebound or switched off in Settings → Shortcuts.
While the panel is open
| ⌘T | New session |
| ⌘W | Close session |
| ⌘S | Save a checkpoint |
| ⌘1 – ⌘9 | Switch to a tab |
| ⌘D / ⌘⇧D | Open / close split view (Pro) |
| ⌘E | Agent Office (Pro; free users see a demo) |
| ⌘F | Find in the terminal |
| ⌘G / ⌘⇧G | Find next / previous |
Mouse
- Hover the notch — peek at the panel; it hides when you move away. Open it from the menu bar icon or the shortcut to make it stay.
- Right-click the menu bar icon — a card with three tabs: Sessions (with New, Open Folder and Resume), Usage (plan limits and usage insights) and Quick (silent mode, notifications, sounds, tutorial, support). ⌘N, ⌘O, ⌘, and ⌘Q work while it's open.
- Drop a folder on the notch — open it as a session.
- Middle-click a tab — close it. Right-click for rename, restart, split and worktree options.
- ⌘-click a file path in the terminal — reveal it in Finder.
- Pin (top-left of the panel) — keep the panel open when you click elsewhere.
Settings worth knowing
| General | Notch overlay and the activity line, sounds, notifications, launch at login, automatic updates. Under Detection: Xcode and editor detection, live status, and tracking sessions started outside Termy. |
| Agent | Which agent to launch, whether to launch it automatically, resuming after a crash, holding queued prompts at the plan limit, Codex hooks, and checkpoint options. |
| Appearance | Nine color themes (Soft Dark, Warm Night and Paper are the easiest on the eyes), following macOS light / dark if you like. Font, size, weight and line spacing, a minimum contrast that brightens faint colors, and the cursor style. |
| Shortcuts | The three global shortcuts, plus a reference for the in-panel ones. |
| Snippets | Your saved prompts. |
| Pro | Purchase, trial, restoring on another Mac. |