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Customization and shortcuts

Font, theme, and customizable terminal key sets.

Available on
  • Desktop
  • Web Portal

The terminal’s defaults work for most people. A few things can be customized.

Font and colors

The terminal uses your app’s monospace font and theme. There is no separate terminal font picker today.

  • Font — inherits the app’s monospace stack (Fira Code, Monaco, then a system fallback). To change it, change the app font in Settings > Appearance.
  • Colors — inherit your active theme. Switching between light and dark in Settings > Appearance updates the terminal palette immediately. Programs that ask the terminal for its colors (some TUIs and CLIs do this on startup) get answers consistent with the active theme.

Built-in shortcuts

ShortcutAction
`Ctrl+“Toggle the terminal panel
Ctrl+FOpen the find bar
Ctrl+KClear the terminal and replay buffer
Cmd+V / Ctrl+Shift+VPaste
Cmd+C / Ctrl+Shift+CCopy selection

These are not user-configurable.

Terminal key sets (portal)

The portal lets you define terminal key sets — named profiles of keyboard shortcuts that send specific input to the focused terminal. This is useful if you keep typing the same long sequences (Ctrl+C three times, a specific escape sequence to switch panes, your tmux prefix, etc.) and want a single key to fire them.

Open Settings > Terminal in the portal:

  1. Click New key set to create a profile.
  2. Add bindings, either picking a key from the catalog or composing a custom escape sequence.
  3. Activate the set. Only one set is active at a time. Activation is per-account and persists across sessions.

Key sets are not the same as shell shortcuts. They work at the Glueprint layer — when you press the bound key in a terminal, Glueprint sends the configured bytes into the PTY exactly as if you had typed them.

What is not configurable

  • The shell binary — the terminal uses your host’s default shell from $SHELL (or the OS default if that isn’t set). Change your default shell at the OS level if you want a different one.
  • Bell behavior, cursor style, and scrollback size are fixed at sensible defaults.