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Viewer controls.

The grid distinguishes rendered visual lines from logical records, so wrapped messages remain navigable without losing record-level jumps. The same keyboard model also covers sources, tabs, filters, bookmarks, and presentation.

MOVE visual line · record · page
WORKSPACE F2 · Ctrl+T
ANALYZE find · filter · query
CHROME --pager · Ctrl+P
§ CTL·2 Sources and Tabs workspace operations

Open, arrange, refresh, and export views.

F2 · source picker

Choose a local, remote, container, device, cloud, listener, or stream source from one place. Ctrl+O opens Docker, Ctrl+I iOS Simulator, Ctrl+K Kubernetes, and Ctrl+J local journalctl on Linux.

F3 / F4 · switch tabs

Move to the previous or next open tab. F6 closes the active tab; Ctrl+R opens the recent-source history.

Ctrl+T · tab list

Enter switches to the selected tab and Delete closes it. Space marks multiple compatible timestamp-aware tabs, then Merge creates a UTC-ordered combined view.

Ctrl+D · duplicate

Open an independent tab over the same source with the current profile, filters, search, position, and view state copied into it.

Ctrl+Shift+R · reload

Reopen the backing source and reapply the current live tab state where the source supports reloading.

Ctrl+S · export

Write the currently visible rows of the active tab to a file, after its active filtering has been applied.

SOURCE DETAILS → NAMED SESSIONS → PROFILE WORKFLOWS →
§ CTL·3 Investigate and Present search, filter, mark, and shape

Narrow the current view or derive a new one.

find
Ctrl+F · Ctrl+G · Ctrl+Shift+G
Search the current filtered view, then move to the next or previous match. The Search menu also exposes first, last, and clear actions.
columns
F11 · per-column filters
Configure include and exclude filters by field. Press + or − on a row for a quick include or exclude using one of its text values.
expression
Ctrl+Shift+F · expression filter
Compile a typed predicate over the active view and keep only rows for which it returns true.
query
Ctrl+Q · Ctrl+Shift+Q
Create a derived Query Tab over a reopenable source, or edit the active Query Tab in place.
bookmark
Space · Shift+Space · F12
Toggle a bookmark, create or rename one, and open the complete bookmark list. Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown jump between bookmarks.
detail
Enter · row detail
Open the selected record in a scrollable dialog for fields or messages that need more room than the grid.
highlight
h · Ctrl+H
Create a temporary quick highlight from the selected row, or manage reusable highlight rules attached to the active profile.
layout
Ctrl+L · columns
Set visibility, width, wrapping, maximum cell height, and virtual columns for the current profile.
view
F7 · F8 · F9
Toggle configured wrapping, select or manage the parser profile, and switch timestamp display between local time and UTC.
decode
Ctrl+E · encoding
Choose another text encoding and reopen the current file with it.
theme
Ctrl+Y · color theme
Apply a different global palette to the application.
EXPRESSION GUIDE → QUERY GUIDE → VIRTUAL COLUMNS →
§ CTL·4 Pager Mode content-first terminal chrome

Use the viewer like a pager when chrome is unnecessary.

Start with --pager

The terminal viewer opens without the menu, tab strip, frames, column headers, or status bar, leaving more rows and columns for log content.

Toggle with Ctrl+P

In the standalone terminal viewer, hide or restore pager chrome for the current run without restarting or reopening the source.

Hosted app behavior

Ctrl+P is intentionally unavailable in the hosted desktop window, whose surrounding application chrome is managed by the host.

Commands remain available

Keyboard actions continue to operate while pager chrome is hidden. Toggle the chrome back on when a menu-only command is needed.

PAGER STARTUP OPTION →