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Spotlight

Command palette for navigating Dockerman, running actions, and searching resources.

Spotlight is Dockerman's command palette. Open it to search resources, run common actions, and jump to places in the app from the keyboard.

Open Spotlight

Press Cmd/Ctrl + ; by default, or open Spotlight from the tray menu. Spotlight opens as a separate, frameless window while leaving the main Dockerman window open in the background.

Start typing a container name, image tag, or Compose project. Pressing Enter opens the selected result or action. Dockerman does not currently rank results by usage or recency.

Quick actions

Use inline actions from the result list when Spotlight shows them.

  • Containers: Start, Stop, Restart, Logs, Terminal, Backup, and Diagnostic Bundle
  • Images: inspect the image actions currently exposed by the palette
  • Compose stacks: lifecycle actions, Edit YAML, and Diagnostic Bundle
  • Utilities: Docker Run to Compose

Search highlights

Search uses the command palette's current text matching. Dockerman does not add usage-based ranking or a separate documented match-highlighting contract.

Customize the shortcut

Change the Spotlight shortcut in Shortcut settings.

Tips

Spotlight runs in its own Tauri window. Closing it does not close the main Dockerman window, and vice versa.

Advanced and Scripting

Schema, call allowlist, Cloudflare Quick Tunnels, managed WSL2 engine, and scripting patterns.

Remote Hosts (SSH)

Manage remote Docker hosts over SSH tunnels and switch between them from the host selector.

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