Did you know, what you can do, maybe even faster, with keyboard shortcuts?

You can access lots of commands by pressing multiple keys on your keyboard. Below is a short list of the most important commands that you can use, and that aren't dependent on your interface language.

Global shortcuts: ‌
[Ctrl] + [I‍]: Open/Minimize the contact list. (If opening the message window on message receipt is not set up in the options, Open the last received unread message)

Main window: ‌
[F2]: Rename selected Contact/Group
[F5]: Add Contacts
[Del]: Delete selected Contact/Group

Message window: ‌
[Ctrl] + [B‍]: (Un)set Bold font
[Ctrl] + [I‍]: (Un)set italics font
[Ctrl] + [U‍]: (Un)set underlined font
[Ctrl] + [E‍]: Quote last sent message
[Ctrl] + [R‍]: Quote last received message
left [Ctrl] + [Shift]: Change text direction to left-to-right
right [Ctrl] + [Shift]: Change text direction to right-to-left

[Alt Gr] + right [Shift]: Switch to next keyboard layout

[Alt Gr] + left [Shift]: Switch to previous keyboard layout
[Ctrl] + [Page Up]: Switch to last open message session tab
[Ctrl] + [Page Down]: Switch to next open message session tab
[Ctrl] + [Tab]: Switch between open message session tabs
[Ctrl] + [W‍]: Close current tab
[Esc]: Close current window

History miner: ‌
[Del] Delete selected entries

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