Shortcuts and quick input · DeutschlandGPT

The desktop app has two kinds of keyboard shortcuts. System-wide ones work while you are in any other application, so they are also the only ones that can collide with another program. In-app ones only work while a DeutschlandGPT window has focus.

All of them are listed and rebindable under Settings, Shortcuts (Cmd/Ctrl+,), grouped exactly as below.

Quick input

Press the quick-input hotkey anywhere, while writing an email, reading a PDF, in a spreadsheet, and a small input box appears over your current window. Type your question, press Enter, and the answer opens in a new conversation in the app. Esc closes the box.

Platform	Default
macOS	`Cmd+Shift+I`
Windows	`Ctrl+Alt+Space`

The defaults differ per platform on purpose: Ctrl+Shift+I opens the developer tools on Windows, so quick input takes a chord that is genuinely free there.

The tray icon opens the same box without bringing the whole window forward.

System-wide

Action	macOS	Windows
Quick input	`Cmd+Shift+I`	`Ctrl+Alt+Space`
Dictation	`Cmd+Shift+L`	`Ctrl+Shift+L`

The dictation entry only appears if dictation is enabled for your account. Directly below it sits its trigger setting, Push to talk or Toggle, because that describes the key press rather than the transcript. The default is Toggle: one press starts, the next one stops.

On Windows and macOS the dictation hotkey may also be modifier keys alone, such as Ctrl+Win or Ctrl+Cmd (Windows or Command key plus at least one more modifier). On macOS this needs the Accessibility permission. In toggle mode a short tap of such a chord starts or stops the dictation, and if you press another key while holding it, the press counts as a different shortcut and nothing is recorded.

In-app shortcuts

Grouped as in the settings list.

Navigation

Action	Default
New conversation	`Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+O`
Search conversations	`Cmd/Ctrl+K`
Switch product	`Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+K`
Cowork	`Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+C`
Code	`Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+D`
Learning platform	`Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+A`
Special applications	`Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+G`

Code and Cowork

Action	Default
Switch mode	`Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+M`

In Code and Cowork this cycles the permission mode of the conversation. In Chat the same keys switch Agent Mode on and off.

Window

Action	Default
Toggle sidebar	`Cmd/Ctrl+B`
Close window (to tray)	`Cmd/Ctrl+W`

Profile and settings

Action	Default
Settings…	`Cmd/Ctrl+,`
Profile	`Cmd/Ctrl+P`
Skills	`Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+S`
Tasks	`Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T`
Integrations	`Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+E`
Sign out	none

Help

Feedback, contact and the status page are in the list with no default binding. Give them one if you use them often.

In-app shortcuts are delivered through the native menu bar, so they work regardless of which part of the window has focus. That is why they still fire while the cursor sits in the terminal or in the code editor, which would otherwise swallow the key press.

Rebinding

Open Settings, Shortcuts.

Click the combination you want to change and press the new keys. It saves immediately. Esc cancels.

Conflicts are shown in red on both sides, not blocked. Swapping two shortcuts has to pass through a conflicting state, and you are the one who knows which you meant. Resolve it before you leave.

While this settings pane is open, every shortcut is suspended: the system-wide hotkeys are unregistered and the menu bar is rebuilt without its accelerators, so the keys you press reach the recorder instead of firing their command.

Reset to default is available per shortcut, and a shortcut can be removed entirely.

A combination needs at least one modifier key. A bare letter cannot become a shortcut, or typing would trigger commands.

When a shortcut does not work

Message	What it means
Already taken by another app	The operating system refused to register it, because another program claimed it first. Pick a different one
Could not be registered	Same cause, reported at the moment you tried to save. The old binding is kept rather than silently lost

A system-wide hotkey outranks the application that normally owns that combination while DeutschlandGPT runs. If a chord suddenly stops working in another program, that is where to look.

Two Windows specifics:

The Windows key is reserved by Windows for its own shortcuts and cannot be used reliably by applications. The recorder refuses it and asks for Ctrl instead.
AltGr reports itself as Ctrl+Alt. A key press with AltGr held is therefore never treated as a shortcut and cannot be recorded as one, because otherwise typing @ or € would trigger commands.

Not configurable

Text-editing keys are conventions rather than app commands, so rebinding them would break the surface they belong to:

Enter sends, Shift+Enter adds a line break, Esc closes.
The approval keys in Code and Cowork: Cmd/Ctrl+Enter approves, Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Enter approves everything pending, Esc declines. With several requests waiting, Alt+1 to Alt+9 selects one and Alt+Up/Down moves the selection. These keys only work while an approval is waiting.
Cmd/Ctrl+S saves in the code editor.