Keyboard shortcuts
The board is meant to be driven from the keyboard. Everything you can do with a mouse has a key, including rearranging tiles — drag-only reordering would make the feature unusable for a real share of people.
On the board
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
← ↑ → ↓ |
Move focus between apps |
Home / End |
First / last app |
Enter or Space |
Open the focused app in a new tab |
Shift + arrows |
Move the focused app one slot |
e |
Edit the focused app |
Delete / Backspace |
Remove the focused app (asks first) |
The grid uses a roving tab stop: exactly one tile is in the tab order at a
time, so Tab moves past the board rather than through forty tiles.
Arrow movement clamps at the edges rather than wrapping. On a wrapping grid,
holding → walks the whole collection and you cannot tell "I'm at the end"
from "I'm looping".
Every move announces itself to screen readers — "Grafana moved to position 4 of 9."
Anywhere in the app
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
n |
Add an app |
/ |
Jump to the filter |
1–9 |
Switch to group N |
Esc |
Close a dialog or menu |
| paste | Pasting a URL onto the board opens the add form, pre-filled |
Shortcuts are ignored while you are typing in a field, so / in a URL does not
teleport focus away mid-edit.
In dialogs
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Esc |
Close |
Enter |
Submit |
Read-only groups
In a group shared with you as a viewer, Shift+arrow announces "This group is
read-only" rather than doing nothing silently.