Keyboard Shortcuts & Tray

Shortcuts work while the Throne window is active. macOS: Ctrl means Cmd and Alt means Option, so Ctrl+Shift+S is Cmd+Shift+S. On a Mac laptop keyboard, Del is Fn+Delete.

Main window

The Settings and Routing menus have no shortcuts. The "Can change" column shows whether you can set another shortcut, see Change a shortcut. Simple mode hides some items, such as Resolve Domain for group, Export config and Reset Traffic (see Simple and Advanced mode).

In the status bar, click the running profile to URL-test it, or Mixed: … to open Basic Settings.

Program menu

Action	Shortcut	Can change
Hide window	Ctrl+H (macOS: also Cmd+W)	Yes
New profile	Ctrl+N	Yes
Add profile from clipboard	Ctrl+V	No
Add profile from File(s)	Ctrl+O	Yes
Scan QR Code	Ctrl+Shift+Q	Yes

You can also drop files, QR code images or links on the window to import them.

Groups menu

Group actions work on the group of the open tab.

Action	Shortcut	Can change
Url Test Group	Ctrl+Shift+G	Yes
Speedtest Group	Ctrl+Alt+P	Yes
Resolve Domain for group	Ctrl+Shift+I	Yes
Clear Group test result	Ctrl+Shift+C	Yes
Update subscription	Ctrl+U	Yes
Clean up → Remove Duplicates	Ctrl+Shift+D	Yes
Clean up → Remove Unavailable	Ctrl+Shift+R	Yes
Clean up → Remove Invalid	Ctrl+Alt+I	Yes
Stop Testing	Ctrl+.	Yes

Stop Testing appears only while a test is running. Right-click a group tab for the group's menu; drag tabs to reorder the groups.

Tools menu

Action	Shortcut	Can change
Search Settings	Ctrl+K	Yes
Speedtest Current	F6	Yes

Search Settings opens the command palette. Speedtest Current works only while a profile is running.

Command palette

The command palette finds menu commands and settings by name. Press Ctrl+K in the main window, or click Tools → Search Settings.

• Type one or more words. An entry matches when its name or path, such as Basic Settings › Common › Inbound Settings, contains all of them. In a translated interface, English words also find many entries.
• Start with > to search only commands, or with @ to search only settings. @ alone lists all settings.
• Press Enter or double-click an entry to run it. Esc closes the palette.

The palette finds the settings of Basic Settings, Routing Settings, Tun Settings, Preset Settings and Integration Settings, and the commands that the menus show at the moment, including the profile list menu and your routing profiles.

In Simple mode, the palette also finds the hidden settings, under Settings in Advanced mode; choosing one switches Throne to Advanced mode. Hidden menu commands are not listed.

Only one of these windows can be open at a time: a settings window, Manage Groups, OTP Manager, Traffic Stats and About. While one is open, the palette greys out entries that would open another one.

Profile list

Right-click the profile list for its menu. Besides the "add" actions of the Program menu, it has:

Action	Shortcut	Can change
Start	Enter	No
Stop	Ctrl+S	No
Share → Export config	Ctrl+E	Yes
Share → Copy links of selected	Ctrl+C	No
Share → Copy links of selected (Deep Links)	Ctrl+Alt+C	No
Delete	Del	No
Select All	Ctrl+A	No
Clone	Ctrl+D	Yes
Url Test Selected	Ctrl+Shift+S	Yes
Speedtest Selected	Ctrl+Shift+P	Yes
Reset Traffic	Ctrl+R	Yes

Other keys and mouse actions in the list:

Key or action	What it does
Double-click a profile	Opens the profile editor.
Esc	Clears the selection. In the filter row, closes the filter row.
Drag a row	Moves the profile. This does not work while a filter is active.
Ctrl+F	Shows or hides the filter row. Hiding it clears the filters.
Up on the first row, Down in the filter row	Moves between the list and the filter row.

Actions without a default shortcut

You can give a shortcut to QR Code and link, Copy Test Result, Resolve Selected Domain, Resolve Selected Out IP, Clear Test Result, Resolve out IP for group, Update all subscriptions, Remove Insecure Configs, IP Scanner and Refresh Column Widths.

Change a shortcut

1. Open Settings → Integration Settings → Shortcuts (Advanced mode only, see Simple and Advanced mode).
2. Click the field next to an action and press the new key combination. Backspace removes the shortcut.
3. Click OK.

Shortcuts marked "No" above, and Ctrl+F, cannot be changed. If another action or a global hotkey already uses the combination, the window names the conflict and does not save until you change one of them.

Global hotkeys

Global hotkeys work in any app, even when the Throne window is hidden. All of them are empty by default.

1. Open Settings → Integration Settings → Global Hotkeys.
2. Click the field of a hotkey and press the key combination.
3. Click OK.

Hotkey	What it does
Trigger main window	Shows the main window, or hides it if it is active, like a click on the tray icon.
Show groups	Opens Manage Groups.
Show routes	Opens Routing Settings.
Proxy mode	Opens the Operation Mode menu (System Proxy, Tun Mode) at the mouse pointer.
Toggle System Proxy	Turns System Proxy on or off.
Start/Stop Profile	Stops the running profile, or starts the last profile when none runs.
Toggle Tun Mode	Turns Tun Mode on or off.

• A hotkey needs Ctrl, Alt or Meta (Cmd on macOS), unless it is a function key such as F9.
• A combination that another program or the system already uses does not work. After you click OK, Throne lists the hotkeys it could not register.
• Global hotkeys are paused while Integration Settings is open.
• Linux: global hotkeys work in X11 and KDE Plasma Wayland sessions (on KDE Plasma they also appear in the system shortcut settings, under Throne), but not in other Wayland sessions.

To control Throne from a macro pad, a Stream Deck or a script, use thronectl.

Tray icon

Throne shows an icon in the system tray (on macOS, in the menu bar). The icon changes while a profile runs and when System Proxy or Tun Mode is on. Hover over it to see the running profile and mode.

• Windows and Linux: click the icon to show or hide the window. Right-click it for the tray menu.
• macOS: click the icon for the tray menu.

Closing the window does not quit Throne: it keeps running in the tray. To quit, choose Exit in the tray menu or the Program menu.

macOS: while the window is hidden, Throne has no Dock icon. If you keep Throne in the Dock, click its Dock icon to show the window, or open Throne again from Finder.

Linux: GNOME shows tray icons only with the AppIndicator extension (#1623). Without a tray icon, start Throne again to bring back its hidden window.

Tray menu

Item	What it does
Connect / Disconnect	Stops the running profile, or starts the profile selected in the list, else the last profile, else the first profile of the open group.
Remember last profile	At the next start, Throne starts the profile that was running when it quit, and turns System Proxy and Tun Mode back on if they were on. A profile you stopped yourself is not remembered.
Allow other devices to connect	Opens the local proxy port to your network, see LAN sharing.
Select Profile	Starts a profile chosen by group, or found by typing its name.
Select Routing	Makes a routing profile active and restarts the running profile.
OTP Codes	Click an OTP profile to copy its current code. Hidden in Simple mode.

Start with system starts Throne when you log in. It adds a Task Scheduler task on Windows, a login item on macOS, and Throne.desktop with the option -tray to ~/.config/autostart on Linux. On Windows and macOS, the window opens at login unless Hide dashboard at startup is on. On Windows, each start of Throne gives the task the rights of the running Throne: if Throne runs as administrator, the task also starts it as administrator, unless Always Start as Standard User is on.

Tray settings

In Settings → Basic Settings → Style:

Setting	Default	What it does
Hide dashboard at startup	Off	Throne starts with only the tray icon, like the command-line option -tray.
Disable tray	Off	Removes the tray icon. Closing the window then quits Throne.