Search and menus
Find any page, setting, widget, event or command with Ctrl+K, and right-click almost anything to act on it
- Events
- Overlay widgets
- Settings
Two ways to reach anything without hunting for its button: press Ctrl+K/Cmd+K and type what you want, or right-click the thing you want to act on.
Search everything
Open search
Press Ctrl+K/Cmd+K, or click the magnifier in the title bar.
Type a few letters
Results filter as you type. Every word has to match somewhere, but a word can be only the start of one, so "obs sce" is enough.
Open or run it
Move with the arrow keys and press Enter. Press Esc, or Ctrl+K/Cmd+K again, to close.
Try typing in the search above. With nothing typed, search lists the last six things you used, then the pages and quick actions. English words find things even when the app is in another language.
Know what search finds
| Section | What happens when you pick it |
|---|---|
| Go to | Opens that page: Dashboard, Events, Throwing, Overlay or Settings. |
| Quick actions | Switches light or dark mode, opens Recipes, New Event, the chat window, Run setup again or the debug console, or presses a Quick Deck pad. |
| Events | Each event appears twice: once to run now, as a test, and once to Edit. |
| Overlay widgets | Opens the Overlay tab with that widget already open. |
| Settings | Opens Settings at that card. |
| Commands | Runs any command that needs no value, and says whether it worked. |
A command or a pad run from search shows Done and its name when it works, or Couldn't run and the reason when it doesn't.
Right-click almost anything
Right-click something in Vfinity and a menu opens at the pointer, titled with what it acts on. Entries that can't run yet stay in the menu, dimmed; rest the pointer on one to see why.
| Right-click | What you can do |
|---|---|
| An event | Test it now, edit, duplicate, switch it on or off, show only its kind of trigger, Copy event ID, delete. A Blueprint adds Open Blueprint and Convert to simple event; with Blueprint mode on, a Simple event adds Convert to Blueprint. |
| The Events list's empty space | New Event, Recipes, filter by trigger, Turn on all shown or Turn off all shown. |
| An action step | Duplicate, switch off, move it, Change to another kind, Add step below, Copy step, Paste step, delete. |
| A Blueprint node | Details, Duplicate, Copy, Cut, Disable, Break all wires, Wrap in a comment, Delete. A wire offers Delete wire and Add reroute, and empty canvas opens the add-node list. |
| A Quick Deck pad | Play or stop, edit, duplicate, switch off, pick its Color, move, delete. |
| A Dashboard card | Width, Move up, Move down, hide, Customize dashboard. |
| An event log line | Copy line, copy the name or the message, clear the log. |
| An overlay widget | Configure, switch on or off, Copy OBS URL, add a copy, Test on OBS, and its quick controls, like spinning the wheel or skipping an alert. |
| A connection pill | Connect or disconnect, Reconnect, Stop waiting, Connection settings. |
| A dock tab | That page's shortcuts. Settings lists every card by category. |
| A text field | Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Select all, Clear. |
| An empty spot | Search everything, Go to, New Event, Recipes, pause, light or dark mode, the chat window, the debug console. |
The Throwing tab, hotkeys, stream profiles, themes and the chat window have menus of their own too. A hotkey offers Run it now, and a theme offers Use this theme.
Copy step and Paste step carry a step between events, and into or out of Quick Deck pads. A password field won't copy: its menu says Passwords can't be copied.
Use the keyboard
Press the Menu key or Shift+F10 to open the menu for the control that has focus. In the menu, the arrow keys move, Enter runs an entry, typing a letter jumps to the entry that starts with it, and Esc closes it. → opens a submenu and ← closes it.
Undo a delete
Deleting an event shows a notice with Undo. It puts the event back exactly where it was, switched on or off as before, with its whole action list. Delete several in a row and each gets its own Undo, in any order.
Quick Deck pads deleted from their menu get the same notice.
Get the browser menu back
Vfinity's menus replace the web view's own, which had Reload and Back, so a stray click can't reload the app in the middle of a stream. Hold Shift while you right-click to get it back, for spelling suggestions.