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Sally manual

  • Introduction
    • Introducing Sally
    • Using Help
    • System Requirements
    • License Agreement
    • Technical Support
    • What's New in This Release
  • Window Components
    • Main Window Components
    • Menu Bar
    • Top Toolbar
    • Plugin Bar
    • User Menu Bar
    • Hot Path Bar
    • Drive Bar
    • Middle Toolbar
    • Split Bar
    • Panel
      • Panel Components
      • Directory Line
      • Header Line
      • Working Area
      • Information Line
    • Command Line
    • Bottom Toolbar
    • Window Menu
    • Minimize, Maximize, and Close Buttons
  • Using Sally
    • Working with Windows and Panels
      • Activating Panel
      • Focusing Item
      • Activating Command Line
      • Selecting Current View
      • Choosing Visible Columns
      • Setting Column Width
      • Setting Visibility of Window Components
      • Setting Visibility of Panel Components
      • Setting Panel Width
      • Maximizing and Restoring Panel
      • Swapping Panels
      • Setting Window Always on Top
      • Common Shortcut Keys
    • Navigating Through Directories
      • Changing Directory
      • Changing Directory in Other Panel
      • Change Drive Menu
      • Using Hot Paths
      • Opening Directory You've Worked In Recently
      • Restoring Network Connections
    • Basic Working with Files and Directories
      • Sorting Panel Contents
      • Selecting Files and Directories
      • Quick Searching File or Directory Name
      • Copying Files and Directories
      • Moving or Renaming Files and Directories
      • Deleting Files and Directories
      • Creating a Directory
      • Viewing File
      • Editing File
      • Opening Archive Files
      • Packing Files and Directories
      • Unpacking Archive File
      • Finding Files and Directories
      • Starting Application or Opening Document
      • Opening Plugin File Systems
    • Advanced Working with Files and Directories
      • Emailing Files
      • Saving and Loading Selection
      • Using Clipboard to Perform File and Directory Operations
      • Copying File or Directory Name to Clipboard
      • Opening File You've Used Recently
      • Changing the Name of File or Directory
      • Changing Attributes of Files and Directories
      • Compressing and Encrypting of Files and Directories
      • Changing Name Case of Files and Directories
      • Converting Contents of Text Files
      • Calculating Occupied Space
      • Calculating Directory Sizes
      • Comparing Directories
      • Making List of Files and Directories
      • Opening Properties of Files and Directories
      • Creating New Object
      • Finding Duplicate Files
      • Finding Shortcut or Link Target
      • Displaying Shared Directories
      • Limiting the Files and Directories to Display
      • Highlighting Groups of Files and Directories
      • Refreshing Panel
      • Rereading Associations
      • Using User Menu
    • Using Internal Viewer
      • Introduction to Internal Viewer
      • Finding Text
      • Copying Text to Clipboard
      • Selecting Text
      • Changing View Mode
      • Opening Previous or Next File from Panel or Find Window
      • Drag & Drop
      • Text Wrapping
      • Converting Text
      • Copying Text to File
      • Viewing in Full Screen
      • Opening File
      • Reloading File
    • Working with Disks
      • Formatting Disk
      • Labeling Disk
      • Displaying Drive Information
      • Connecting to and Disconnecting from a Network Drive
    • Securing Files and Directories
      • Setting Files and Directories Permissions
    • Using Plugins
      • Managing Plugins
      • Using Plugins
      • Configuring Plugins
    • Customizing Sally
      • Configuring Sally
      • Setting User's Skill Level
      • Customizing Toolbars
      • Customizing Plugin Bar
      • Customizing User Menu
      • Archivers Autoconfiguration
    • Other Tasks
      • Working with Command Line
      • Opening System Folder
      • Opening Command Shell
      • Using Password Manager
      • Displaying About Dialog Boxes
      • Accessing Help
      • Using Sally Task List
      • Starting Sally with Parameters
      • Exiting Sally
  • Dialog Boxes
    • Configuration
      • Appearance
      • Archivers
      • Archives Associations in Panels
      • Change Drive Menu and Drive Bar
      • Colors
      • Confirmations
      • Drives
      • Editors
      • External Archivers Locations
      • General
      • History
      • Hot Paths
      • Security
      • Icon Overlays
      • Internal Viewer
      • Keyboard
      • Main Window
      • Packers in Pack Dialog
      • Panels
      • Language
      • Recycle Bin
      • Unpackers in Unpack Dialog
      • User Menu
      • Viewers
      • Views
    • Find
      • Advanced Options
      • Find
      • Find Duplicate Files
      • Find Log
      • Ignore Directory List
      • Settings Manager
    • Internal Viewer
      • Find Dialog
      • Go To Offset Dialog
    • Password Manager
      • Enter Master Password
      • Change Master Password
      • Remove Master Password
    • Sally Task List
    • Archive Update
    • Archivers Autoconfiguration
    • Archivers Autoconfiguration Drives
    • Calculate Occupied Space
    • Change Attributes
    • Change Case
    • Choose Directories to Compare
    • Change Directory
    • Change Icon
    • Choose Files to Compare
    • Code Page Conversion Tables
    • Compare Directories
    • Connect to Network Path
    • Convert
    • Copy
    • Create Directory
    • Customize Toolbar
    • Disconnect
    • Drive Information
    • Edit New File
    • Filter
    • Load Selection
    • Make File List
    • Move/Rename
    • Pack
    • Plugin Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Plugins Manager
    • Quick Rename
    • Save Selection
    • Select
    • Set Speed Limit
    • Shared Directories
    • Unpack
    • Unselect
    • User's Skill Level
  • Shortcuts
    • Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Mouse Shortcuts
    • Shortcut Menus
  • Plugins
    • Plugins Concepts
    • 7-ZIP
    • Automation
    • Checksum
    • Check Version
    • Database Viewer
    • DiskMap
    • File Comparator
    • FTP Client
    • Web Viewer
    • Multimedia Viewer
    • Network
    • Quake PAK
    • Portable Executable Viewer
    • Registry Editor
    • Renamer
    • Split & Combine
    • TAR
    • UnARJ
    • UnCAB
    • UnCHM
    • Undelete
    • UnFAT
    • UnISO
    • UnLHA
    • UnMIME
    • UnRAR
    • Windows Mobile
    • ZIP
  • Appendix
    • File and Directory Concepts
      • Understanding Files and Directories
      • File Systems
      • Naming a File or Directory
      • Disk Path Specifier
      • File and Directory Attributes
      • File and Directory Times
      • Text Files Coding and End of Line Characters
      • Wildcard Characters
      • File Masks
      • Operation Masks
      • Archive Path Specifier
      • Plugin File System Path Specifier
    • Regular Expressions Syntax
    • Group Policy Restriction
    • Unicode Support
  • Glossary
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F
    • G
    • H
    • I
    • J
    • K
    • L
    • M
    • N
    • O
    • P
    • Q
    • R
    • S
    • T
    • U
    • V
    • X
    • Y
    • Z
Manual › Dialog Boxes › Configuration

Keyboard

Keyboard shortcuts cannot be changed in this version of Sally. You can assign a keyboard shortcut to any plugin menu command; see the Keyboard button in the Plugins Manager dialog box. See the list of Keyboard Shortcuts.

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From the Sally manual (GPL-2.0-or-later), © 1997-2023 Open Salamander Authors; © 2025-2026 Elias Bachaalany. Source: manual source (zip) · original page in the Sally repository

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A fast, keyboard-first dual-panel file manager for Windows. Free software under the GNU GPL, based on Open Salamander.

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