Open the command palette keyboard shortcut in 17 apps
Open the command palette has a documented keyboard shortcut in 17 apps here, among them Android Studio, Chrome DevTools, ClickUp, DBeaver. The most common keys are Ctrl + Shift + P on Windows and Cmd + Shift + P on a Mac.
Keys on this page were last checked against their sources on September 14, 2026.
| App | Windows | Mac | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Android Studio | Windows Ctrl + Shift + A | Mac Cmd + Shift + A | Find an action by name |
| Chrome DevTools | Windows Ctrl + Shift + P | Mac Cmd + Shift + P | Open the command menu |
| ClickUp | Windows Ctrl + K | Mac Cmd + K | Open search and the command center |
| DBeaver | Windows Ctrl + 3 | Mac Cmd + 3 | Find an action |
| Godot Engine | Windows Ctrl + Shift + P | Mac Cmd + Shift + P | Open the command palette |
| Grafana | Windows Ctrl + K | Mac Not documented | Open the command palette |
| Inkscape | Windows ? | Mac ? | Open the command palette |
| IntelliJ IDEA | Windows Ctrl + Shift + A | Mac Cmd + Shift + A | Find an action |
| JupyterLab | Windows Ctrl + Shift + C | Mac Cmd + Shift + C | Open the command palette |
| Miro | Windows Ctrl + K | Mac Cmd + K | Open the command palette |
| Obsidian | Windows Ctrl + P | Mac Cmd + P | Open the command palette |
| Postman | Windows Ctrl + Shift + P | Mac Cmd + Shift + P | Open the command palette |
| RStudio | Windows Ctrl + Shift + P | Mac Cmd + Shift + P | Show the command palette |
| Sublime Text | Windows Ctrl + Shift + P | Mac Cmd + Shift + P | Open the command palette |
| Visual Studio Code | Windows Ctrl + Shift + P | Mac Cmd + Shift + P | Search available editor commands |
| Windows Terminal | Windows Ctrl + Shift + P | Mac Not documented | Open the command palette |
| Zed | Windows Ctrl + Shift + P | Mac Cmd + Shift + P | Open the command palette |
What most apps settled on for Open the command palette
On Windows, Ctrl + Shift + P is the combination in 8 of the 17 apps here that document one. On a Mac, it is Cmd + Shift + P in 7 of 15. 9 apps go their own way on Windows, and the table above is where to find them.
Where the table is deliberately empty
2 apps here publish no Mac key for Open the command palette, so those cells are left blank. A blank there is a gap in that maker documentation for Open the command palette, not an oversight here, and it is never filled by converting the other system.
If the keys for Open the command palette do nothing
The 17 apps listed here each decide this for themselves, so the first thing to check is that you are reading the row for the app you are actually in, and the column for your system. After that, check the app version, since open the command palette is the kind of command makers move between releases. Report a correction
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