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Documentation / Contents - Menu & Shortcuts

• Overview of Menu & Shortcuts
  • Two Pages, Two Files
  • Who Is In Charge
• Editing the Desktop Menu
  • Reading the Tree
  • Changing a Label or a Command
  • Adding Items, Submenus and Separators
  • Deleting and Reordering
  • Reload File
• Editing Shortcuts
  • The Action List
  • The Inspector
• Setting a Shortcut
  • Arming the Capture
  • When a Chord Is Already Taken
  • Clear and Reset Default
  • Reset All Defaults
• The Action Catalog
  • Window
  • Desktop
  • Tiling
  • Session
  • Launchers
• Where the Settings Live
  • The Shortcuts File
  • The Menu File
  • The Legacy Keys File
• The Status Line
• Keys and Shortcuts in the Editor
• Copyright Information

Copyright Information

The Menu & Shortcuts help book is part of Blueprint, a clean-room revival of the SGI (Silicon Graphics) IRIX Interactive Desktop.

Copyright (c) 2026, Swift Griggs and The Cyanotype Project contributors. All rights reserved. Distributed under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Blueprint is not a product of, nor endorsed by, Silicon Graphics. "IRIX" and "Silicon Graphics" are used only to describe what Blueprint revives.

IRIX shipped no editor of this kind: the desktop menu and the session keys were resource files you edited by hand. Menu & Shortcuts is a Blueprint addition, so it is an extended tool rather than a canonical one.