Recoll GUI keyboard navigation
Using Recoll without the mouse is not completely straightforward, but it is mostly feasible. Here follows a description of the usable shortcuts.
Anywhere
Ctrl+q
should exit Recoll from anywhere.
Main window and result list
When Recoll starts up, the focus is in the simple search entry. The main window tab order is as follows:
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Clear
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Search
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Search type combo
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Search entry (Initial focus)
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Result list (scrolling etc)
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Result list 1st link
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Result list next links…
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Back to Clear
Each result list entry has 3 links: the icon link is not active, but its value is the URL, so that it can be dragged and dropped to another application. The 2 other links are Preview and Open and can be activated by typing Enter.
Typing Ctrl+Shift+s anywhere in the main window should return the focus to the search entry. So will Ctrl+l in future versions (for compatibility with WEB browser usage).
For pure keyboard usage, you can improve this by:
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Disabling the icon link: use Preferences→GUI configuration→Result List→Edit result paragraph and remove the
<a href='%U'>
and</a>
around the<img…>
tag. -
Making the active link more visible by adding the following code to the result page HTML header insert (same preferences tab). Feel free to adjust the color :=) :
<style type="text/css"> a:focus {background-color: red;} </style>
Result table
The same Ctrl+Shift+s will return the focus to the search entry when working with the result table.
Ctrl+r will move the focus from the entry to the spreadsheet. When in there the arrow keys will navigate the lines.
When a line is selected:
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Ctrl+o or Enter will Open the document.
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Ctrl+Shift+o will Open the document and exit Recoll.
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Ctrl+d (detail) will start a Preview
Esc will deselect the current line so that mouse hovering will work again.