Keyboard
Press any icon in the menu bar without a mouse, walk the bars, and every key a page in GreatBar answers to.
The point of a menu bar is that it is always in the same place. The point of the keyboard is that you do not have to go there. Every icon on the bar showing answers to a number, from whatever app you are in.
In the menu bar
These work everywhere, whatever app is in front.
| Keys | What happens |
|---|---|
| ⌃⌘1 … ⌃⌘9 | Presses the first nine icons, counting from the left and stepping over the lines between them |
| ⌥⌃⌘1 … ⌥⌃⌘9 | The nine after those: ⌥⌃⌘1 is the tenth icon |
| Hold ⌃⌘ | Every icon says which number it is, so there is nothing to count |
| ⌃⌘← ⌃⌘→ | The bar before or after. The whole menu bar changes |
| ⌃⌘G | GreatBar’s own menu: every bar, and everything on every bar |
| ⌃⌘A | This bar’s shortcuts as a flat menu. Arrows walk it, a letter jumps, Return opens |
Pressing an icon is exactly a click on it: a link opens where that link opens, a group drops its menu, an app comes forward.
Changing the pair
Settings › Number keys offers ⌃⌘ (the default), ⌥⌘, ⇧⌃, a pair you hold yourself, or Off. The pair carries the digits and the arrows, so turning it off turns off both.
A custom pair has to be two modifiers at least, with ⌘ or ⌃ among them: one modifier and a digit is a key somebody else is almost certainly using, and ⌥ or ⇧ alone type characters. ⇧⌘ is refused, because ⇧⌘3, 4 and 5 take screenshots and macOS keeps those keys whatever else is held with them.
The second nine take one extra modifier on top of the pair, chosen for you: ⌥ where the pair leaves room, then ⌃, then ⇧. Settings says which, in the keys you are actually on rather than in symbols nobody explained.
⌃⌘G and ⌃⌘A are recorded separately in Settings, and either can be cleared. A combination with no ⌘ or ⌃ in it takes that character away from everything, everywhere, and the row says so when you record one.
In a menu
| Keys | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1 … 9 | The first nine openable rows of a group’s menu |
| Hold ⌥ | Every row grows an arrow: a panel, a window, your browser, or which app opens a file |
| Arrows, letters, Return | As in any Mac menu |
In a page opened in GreatBar
| Keys | What happens |
|---|---|
| ⌘L | Edit the address |
| ⌘R | Reload |
| ⌘[ ⌘] | Back and forward |
| ⌘F | Find on the page |
| ⌘G ⇧⌘G | Next and previous match |
| ⌘+ ⌘- | Zoom in and out, kept on that link |
| ⌘0 | Back to 100% |
| ⌘P | |
| ⌘T | A new tab on this surface |
| ⌘W or Escape | Close the panel or the window |
Elsewhere
⌘, opens Settings from GreatBar’s own menu, and ⌘Q quits.
If a key does nothing
Another app registered it first: macOS gives a global shortcut to whoever asked, and GreatBar is not told which app that was. Record a different one, or find the app holding it and change it there. See Troubleshooting.