Keyboard shortcut keys
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Additional: You might want to check out the Volunteer Portal for the Keyboard Shortcuts CheatSheet by Kippie Friedkin (Lisa Lowe 02:23, 4 August 2008 (PDT))
The following is a list of keyboard shortcuts used in the Second Life Viewer
Basic List
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| User Interface | |
| Ctrl-F | Search (previously called Find, hence the shortcut key F) |
| Ctrl-G | Gestures |
| Ctrl-H | Chat History |
| Ctrl-I | Inventory |
| Ctrl-L | Link (selected objects in edit) |
| Ctrl-M | World Map |
| Ctrl-P | Preferences |
| Ctrl-Q | Quit the Second Life viewer |
| Ctrl-R | Run Mode (toggle switch) |
| Ctrl-T | Instant Message open/close |
| Ctrl-W | close current Window (or IM tab page ) |
| Ctrl-Shift-W | close all Windows |
| Ctrl-U | Upload Image |
| Ctrl-Z | Undo (once while in edit - chat window off) |
| Shortcut | Action |
| Edit | |
| Ctrl-1 | Focus |
| Ctrl-2 | Move |
| Ctrl-3 | Edit |
| Ctrl-4 | Create |
| Ctrl-5 | Land |
| Shortcut | Action |
| Script Editor | |
| Ctrl-F | Find/Replace dialog |
| Shortcut | Action |
| Client | |
| Ctrl-Alt-C | disable Camera Contraints (Client->Disable Camera Contstraints) |
| Ctrl-Alt-D | Open/Close Debug menu (some systems require Ctrl-Shift-Alt-D) |
| Ctrl-Alt-M | Mouse Moves Sun (requires Debug menu on) |
| Ctrl-Alt-R | Rebake Textures (Client->Character->Rebake Textures) |
| Ctrl-Alt-T | Highlight Transparent |
| Ctrl-Alt-F1 | Hide/Show UI (This closes the GUI on Ubuntu Linux, stopping the Xserver completely.) |
| Ctrl-Alt-6 | All Fog Off (Fog is SL default...no fog must be reset every log in) |
| Ctrl-Alt-A | Toggle Animate Textures On/Off |
| Ctrl-Shift-A | Start/Stop Movie to Disk |
| Ctrl-Shift-L | Unlink (selected objects in edit) |
| Ctrl-Shift-M | MiniMap |
| Ctrl-Shift-N | Force Sunset |
| Ctrl-Shift-S | Snapshots |
| Ctrl-Shift-` | Snapshot to disk |
| Ctrl-Shift-1 | Sim Stats (you will need to turn off or move the minimap to view the full stats page) |
| Ctrl-Shift-3 | Texture Console (to view textures on a particular object right click and go into
edit and then press ALT 3 , the textures for all sides of that object will be highlighted in yellow) |
| Shortcut | Action |
| Rendering | |
| Ctrl-Alt-Shift-U | Show/Hide Updates (Causes red triangles or 'lightning' to appear from some objects) |
| Ctrl-Alt-Shift-= | Turn particle effects on/off. |
| Ctrl-Alt-Shift-3 | Remove all Linden trees. This is a toggle... press again to turn trees back on. |
| Ctrl-Alt-Shift-5 | Remove ground cover. This is a toggle... press again to turn ground cover back on. |
| Ctrl-Alt-Shift-T | Selected Texture Info (Writes terse information about the selected texture to Chat Console) |
| Shift and Drag | Copy object in edit |
Camera Control
Pan and Zoom Camera
To pan around an object hold down the Alt key and left-click an object or avatar then use the left and right arrows to pan around (this function goes circular around an object) & page up and page down to move closer or further away. To change the zoom, you have to use the following keys:
| Ctrl-8 | Zoom out |
| Ctrl-9 | Reset zoom |
| Ctrl-0 | Zoom in |
| Esc | Reset view |
Strafe Camera
Hold down Ctrl-Alt-Shift and left-click an object or avatar then use the arrow keys to strafe left right up or down. (this goes vertical and horizontal on an object view).