electron/docs/api/accelerator.md

Accelerator

An accelerator is string that represents a keyboard shortcut, it can contain multiple modifiers and key codes, combined by the + character.

Examples:

• Command+A
• Ctrl+Shift+Z

Platform notice

On Linux and Windows, the Command key would not have any effect, you can use CommandOrControl which represents Command on OS X and Control on Linux and Windows to define some accelerators.

Available modifiers

• Command (or Cmd for short)
• Control (or Ctrl for short)
• CommandOrControl (or CmdOrCtrl for short)
• Alt
• Shift

Available key codes

• 0 to 9
• A to Z
• F1 to F24
• Punctuations like ~, !, @, #, $, etc.
• Plus
• Space
• Backspace
• Delete
• Insert
• Return (or Enter as alias)
• Up, Down, Left and Right
• Home and End
• PageUp and PageDown
• Escape (or Esc for short)
• VolumeUp, VolumeDown and VolumeMute
• MediaNextTrack, MediaPreviousTrack, MediaStop and MediaPlayPause