Keyboard shortcuts

While a presentation is running, Slope reacts to the keys below. You can also print this list in the terminal by launching your executable with --help.

Navigation

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 down through primitives stacked there
drag	Move the picked primitive (light-blue guides snap it to other primitives)
mouse wheel	Scale 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
W	Color palette editor
D	Polyscope GUI
L	Reload LaTeX (hot reload)
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