Keyboard shortcuts in Xen Orchestra

Oct 3, 2016

We just introduced keyboard shortcuts in Xen Orchestra. That's just a start, but it will be very useful to accelerate your every day Xen management operations.

Discover your shortcuts

Just press the "h" (or "?") key, it will display a modal window with the list of all existing shortcuts:

We use combo keys, which is better to keep it simple and not to clash with browser/OS shortcuts.

Global

Those shortcuts are available everywhere (in any view). You can go to the home view (displaying VM or pools or hosts) or create a new VM

Home view

You can get the search field focus, or browser all the lines with the keyboard and with enter, going in the object detail. This way, you can avoid using your mouse for some operation.

What's next?

We'll add needed shortcuts: our goal is to avoid creating too many of them but just select those are really important for your productivity. Feel free to drop comments for suggestions :)

Olivier Lambert

Vates CEO & co-founder, Xen Orchestra and XCP-ng project creator. Enthusiast entrepreneur and Open Source advocate. A very happy Finnish Lapphund owner.