Keyboard shortcut keys

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• Download the Second Life Viewer Cheat Sheet by Kippie Friedkin
• All keyboard shortcut keys - a comprehensive list of keyboard shortcut keys in the Second Life Viewer, even ones that are rarely used

The following is a list of common keyboard shortcuts used in the Second Life Viewer

Basic List

Shortcut	Action
User Interface
Ctrl-F	Search
Ctrl-G	Gestures
Ctrl-H	Chat History
Ctrl-I	Inventory
Ctrl-L	Link (selected objects in edit)
Ctrl-⇧ Shift-L	Unlink (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-D	Open/Close Debug menu (some systems require Ctrl-Shift-Alt-D)
Ctrl-Alt-R	Rebake Textures (Client->Character->Rebake Textures)
Ctrl-Alt-T	Highlight Transparent
Ctrl-Alt-F1	Hide/Show UI (This can't be used on Linux - See and vote VWR-2085)
Ctrl-Alt-F6	All Fog Off (This can't be used on Linux - same reason than VWR-2085)
Ctrl-⇧ Shift-M	MiniMap
Ctrl-⇧ Shift-N	Force Sunset
Ctrl-⇧ Shift-Y	Force Midday
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)
Shortcut	Action
Rendering
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.
⇧ 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).