Command Center

The Command Center is a Spotlight-style command palette. You can open it inside LaraEnv, or summon a standalone, always-on-top command bar from anywhere on your system via a global hotkey — even when the main window is hidden to the system tray.

Opening the palette

• Inside the app — press Ctrl+K (the in-app hotkey is configurable).
• From anywhere — set a global hotkey (e.g. Win+Shift+K) and press it to summon the standalone command bar, even when LaraEnv is hidden to the tray. It opens already focused, so you can start typing immediately.

The standalone bar is a separate frameless window that floats on top of everything. It dismisses on blur (when it loses focus) and forwards your chosen action to the main app.

note

The global hotkey has no default — it is disabled until you set one under Settings → Command Center. The in-app palette defaults to Ctrl+K.

What you can do

Start typing — results are fuzzy-filtered and grouped. Search runs across your pages, services, projects, and SSH hosts:

• Navigation — jump to any page: Dashboard, Projects, Terminal, SSH, Cron, Deployments, Libs/Tools, or Settings.
• Services — Start all, Stop all, Reload web stack, or start / stop / reload any individual service.
• Projects — open a project's folder, editor, or browser; or scaffold a new one (New Laravel project, Clone from Git, New Vite project, …). Selecting it opens the New Project form pre-filled to that type.
• Custom commands — your own saved commands (a terminal command, a service action, or a navigation), each optionally bound to its own hotkey.

Launcher mode — run commands in a project

Type a project name followed by a command and the palette switches into launcher mode:

myapp php artisan migrate
myapp npm run dev

artisan sub-commands and npm scripts for that project autocomplete as you type — press Tab to complete the highlighted suggestion. You can also type ssh:<host> to open a saved SSH host.

tip

Highlight an Open terminal · <project> row and press Tab to drop the project name into the input, ready for you to type a command.

Native vs embedded terminal

When you run a terminal or SSH action:

• Enter opens it in a native / external shell.
• Shift+Enter opens it in the embedded xterm.js terminal instead.

Keys

Key	Action
↑ / ↓	Move selection
Tab	Complete the highlighted token / project
Enter	Run — terminal commands open in the native external shell
Shift+Enter	Run terminal / SSH commands in the in-app xterm.js terminal
Esc	Close

Configuration

Set the in-app palette hotkey and the global hotkey, and manage your saved custom commands, under Settings → Command Center. An empty global hotkey disables the OS-wide shortcut.

Related

• Projects overview — create and manage projects.
• SSH hosts — connect to remote hosts.