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Keyboard shortcuts

While a presentation is running, Slope reacts to the keys below.

Key Action
→ right arrow Next slide, or start the slide's timed pause if it has one
← left arrow Previous slide
↓ down arrow Skip to the next slide without transition
Tab Slide menu: jump to any slide and read rehearsal timings

Interactive placement

These act on persistent screen primitives.

Key / mouse Action
Ctrl + left click Pick the primitive under the cursor. Click again on the same spot to cycle through the primitives below it
drag Move the picked primitive (light-blue guides snap it to other primitives)
mouse wheel Scale the picked primitive
Shift+wheel Change the alpha of the picked primitive
Ctrl+wheel Rotate the picked primitive
H Center it horizontally
V Center it vertically
Ctrl + Shift + left click Toggle the primitive in/out of a group selection
Ctrl + Shift + drag Marquee selection: every primitive entirely enclosed by the box joins the group
left drag (with a group selected) Move the whole group, preserving relative spacing (a short click clears the selection)
Ctrl + Z Undo the last move
Ctrl + S Save all dragged positions and edited parameters to disk
T Transform guizmo editor (3D objects)

Tools & windows

Key Action
C Export the current camera view
D Polyscope GUI
L Reload LaTeX (hot reload)
E Editor for every hot-reloaded file
N Copy a free label to the clipboard, to name a new item
A Tuner panel: tunable parameters of the current slide, and their handles
P Screenshot (saved to /tmp/screenshot_*.png)
R Reset rehearsal timings
Space Pause/resume the rehearsal timer