Reference
Keyboard Shortcuts
Every shortcut in GMT, organized by context. Use your browser's print function (Ctrl+P) for a printable cheat sheet.
Orbit mode (default camera)
- Left drag
- Rotate around target
- Right drag
- Pan camera
- Scroll
- Zoom in / out
- Q +E
- Roll camera left / right
Fly mode
- W +S
- Forward / back
- A +D
- Strafe left / right
- Space +C
- Ascend / descend
- Q +E
- Roll camera
- Mouse drag
- Steer (look around)
- Scroll
- Adjust fly speed
- Shift
- 4× speed boost
History
- Ctrl +Z
- Undo parameter change
- Ctrl +Y
- Redo parameter change
- Ctrl +Shift +Z
- Undo camera move
- Ctrl +Shift +Y
- Redo camera move
Camera slots
- 1 +… +9
- Recall saved camera from slot 1–9
- Ctrl +1–9
- Save current view to slot 1–9
UI & modes
- Tab
- Toggle Orbit / Fly camera mode
- T
- Toggle Timeline panel
- H
- Toggle UI hints overlay
- `
- Toggle Advanced Mode (extra controls)
- B
- Toggle Broadcast mode (clean feed — hides UI)
- Esc
- Exit Broadcast, cancel focus picking, close menus, deselect
- Space
- Play / pause animation (when Timeline hovered)
Timeline
- Ctrl +C
- Copy selected keyframes
- Ctrl +V
- Paste keyframes (works across tracks)
- Backspace +Delete
- Delete selected keys
- Click
- Select single key
- Shift +Click
- Add to selection
- Drag box
- Select multiple keys
- Shift +Drag
- Lock movement to time or value axis (Graph Editor)
Graph Editor
- Alt +Right drag
- Zoom view (scale time / value)
- Alt +Left drag
- Pan view
- Middle click drag
- Pan view
- Double-click ruler
- Fit view to all keyframes
Also: right-click any slider, button, or panel in the app to jump to its specific help entry.