# macOS shortcut conflict command palette

**URL:** <https://community.silverbullet.md/t/macos-shortcut-conflict-command-palette/1890>\
**Category:** v1: Troubleshooting (legacy)\
**Created:** [March 1, 2025, 10:02am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/macos-shortcut-conflict-command-palette/1890 "2025-03-01T10:02:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Christoph](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/christoph/32/1067_2.png) [@Christoph](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Christoph)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 10:02am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/macos-shortcut-conflict-command-palette/1890/1 "2025-03-01T10:02:12Z")

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Hi all  
using macOS the shortcut command that is supposed to invoke the command palette (CMD-/) instead brings up the browser’s help menu and places the cursor inside the search field. In fact, it is a system-wide shortcut that works the same in whatever the frontmost application is.  
If it matters, I am working on a German keyboard and “/” is activated hitting SHF-7

What is the best way to resolve the issue, changing the shortcut for the help menu (possibly just for Safari) or changing the one for Silverbullet’s command palette? And if the latter: how?  
Thank you  
Christoph

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**Author:** ![Christoph](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/christoph/32/1067_2.png) [@Christoph](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Christoph)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/macos-shortcut-conflict-command-palette/1890/2 "2025-03-01T21:51:43Z")

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Ah, found the answer here myself:

> [@Change keyboard shortcut / date format](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/change-keyboard-shortcut-date-format/148/2):
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> Regarding the keyboard shortcuts, you can do that in the SETTINGS page. Have a look at the one here: [SETTINGS](https://silverbullet.md/SETTINGS) These below are for example the ones i created to change the way Outlines behave: shortcuts: - command: "Outline: Move Up" key: "Ctrl-ArrowUp" - command: "Outline: Move Down" key: "Ctrl-ArrowDown" - command: "Outline: Move Right" key: "Ctrl-ArrowRight" - command: "Outline: Move Left" key: "Ctrl-ArrowLeft" - command: "Outline: Fold" key: "Ctrl-[" - comma…

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**Author:** ![zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/zef/32/7_2.png) [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/macos-shortcut-conflict-command-palette/1890/3 "2025-03-02T09:34:35Z")

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Finding available shortcuts is really hard. I use macOS and don’t have this issue. It’s likely related to your German keyboard indeed.

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**Author:** ![nachbelichtet](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/nachbelichtet/32/1078_2.png) [@nachbelichtet](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/nachbelichtet)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 10:05am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/macos-shortcut-conflict-command-palette/1890/4 "2025-03-02T10:05:28Z")

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I had the same problem on my Mac with German layout.

```auto
- command: "{[Open Command Palette]}"
  key: "Alt-ArrowRight"

```

works great for me.

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**Author:** ![Christoph](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/christoph/32/1067_2.png) [@Christoph](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Christoph)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/macos-shortcut-conflict-command-palette/1890/5 "2025-03-02T12:53:18Z")

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Finding available shortcuts is actually the easy part. All the keys that aren’t present on a US/UK keyboard are available.  
The hard part is finding out which app uses a particular key combination as a shortcut under macOS. Without this information, you cannot disable or change the behaviour. In this case, it is system itself, however, the shortcut does not appear under the ones the user can modify. Anyway, problem is solved, thank you both.

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**Author:** ![olav](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/olav/32/991_2.png) [@olav](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/olav)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 8:45am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/macos-shortcut-conflict-command-palette/1890/6 "2025-06-29T08:45:45Z")

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> [@nachbelichtet](#):
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> `{[Open Command Palette]`

(( Sorry, I am new to Silverbullet )) I am on a Mac with German keyboard and would like to set the keyboard shortcuts as well.

What is the SETTINGS page? When I try to open it at [silverbullet.md](http://silverbullet.md) or in my local instance, I only get an empty page. What would be the format?

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**Author:** ![MrMugame](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mrmugame/32/358_2.png) [@MrMugame](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/MrMugame)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 9:53am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/macos-shortcut-conflict-command-palette/1890/7 "2025-06-29T09:53:51Z")

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This thread is about v1 of silverbullet. Since then a lot has changed and pretty much every thing is now done using [SpaceLua](https://silverbullet.md/Space%20Lua).  
You’d want to use `command.update` as [described here](https://silverbullet.md/Library/Std/Command).  
This specific case would look like this

```lua
command.update {
  name = "Open Command Palette",
  mac = "Alt-ArrowRight"
}

```