hamster-lite

Keyboard shortcuts

Hamster can be used very efficiently from the keyboard if desired. You may also find it useful to bind either the command hamster-lite or hamster-lite add to a keyboard application shortcut using your desktop UI settings.

The following key combinations can be used in the overview window.

Left or Right: Same as < or > buttons. Navigate backwards or forwards in time.

Down/Up: Navigate the activity list, starting from the top/bottom respectively, and select a previous activity.

Home/End: Navigate to the first or last activity in the list, respectively, and select the activity.

PageDown/PageUp: Navigate the activity list if longer than one page.

Ctrl++: Create a new activity. If an existing activity is selected, it will be resumed (i.e. its details will be cloned, aside from the start time). Same as the + button in the action bar.

Enter or Ctrl+R: Resume an existing selected activity. Enter is the same as Return.

Ctrl+N: Create a New activity from scratch.

Ctrl+Enter or Ctrl+E: Edit/Update the selected activity if any. Same as double click.

Ctrl+Space: Stop tracking the ongoing activity, if any. Same as the stop button in the action bar.

Delete: Delete the selected activity if any.


More Ctrl combinations: Most keys above without Ctrl can also be used in combination with Ctrl, for example Ctrl+Left. The exception is Enter.

Note: the behaviour of the Enter/Return keys in hamster-lite differs from the main Hamster v2+ application.