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Four Small Tools That Save the Most Keystrokes

The command palette, broadcast input, the process manager and one-click themes: the parts of Voltius that don't need a launch post, and that you end up using every day.

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Some features get a launch post. These four never did, and they're the ones I use the most.

Every host, one keystroke: the command palette

Press Ctrl+K anywhere. The palette searches hosts, active connections, team sessions, local shells, keys and snippets at once, with your recent ones first. Type part of a name, press Enter, and you're connected.

A prefix narrows the search:

  • join> live sessions you can join
  • > snippets
  • m> the plugin and theme marketplace
  • @ settings

A snippet run from the palette lands in the tab you're focused on.

Type once, run on twelve: broadcast

Put several sessions in one split tab and turn on broadcast for that pane group. Everything you type goes to every pane at once.

It's the right tool for the interactive things: an apt upgrade that asks questions, a top you want to watch on twelve hosts side by side. For a script you want to run and get a report on, snippet sequences fan out across hosts and tell you which ones failed.

A tab that's broadcasting can't be shared, so a guest never sees keystrokes meant for twelve servers.

Find it, kill it: the process manager

The Processes panel lists what's running on the host of the current tab, with its CPU and memory, sorted by what's eating the most. Filter by name, then kill the culprit with a confirmation, without typing ps aux | grep.

It's a built-in plugin, so it works on any connected host without installing anything there, and an agent connected through the MCP server can use it too.

One click, pick yours: themes

Voltius ships six themes: Voltius, Voltius Light, Dracula, Nord, Monokai and Tokyo Night. Switching is one click and applies everywhere at once, the terminal included.

Pick a light theme and a dark one, and Voltius can switch between them by itself: with your system, on a schedule, or at sunset where you are. The theme editor builds your own, and more themes come from the marketplace.

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