JompterJompter Docs

Keys and system gestures

A keyboard when you need one, and the macOS gestures a trackpad would give you.

The Keys tab of the viewer dock.

The Keys tab of the Jompter Remote dock
The Keys tab, with the quality presets sitting above it.

The key panel

A compact keyboard with the keys that are awkward to reach on iOS: a real arrow cluster, Esc, Tab, and shortcuts shaped for working with an AI agent in a terminal.

Modifiers latch the same way they do in the viewer — tap once for the next action, double-tap to lock. The panel says so itself: "Modifiers stick until the next key." See The viewer.

The one shortcut that will not go through

Anything with ⌘Q is refused, whatever else is held with it: ⌘Q quits Jompter, ⌃⌘Q locks the Mac, and ⇧⌘Q logs you out. All three end the session in a way the phone cannot undo — there is no unlock screen you can reach from here — so the Mac declines them rather than stranding you.

Nothing else is filtered. ⌘Space, ⌘⌥Esc and the rest all reach the Mac, because a remote control that quietly swallowed shortcuts would be the more surprising behaviour — and the pointer can reach those menus anyway.

System gestures

The gestures a trackpad would give you, as buttons:

  • Mission Control
  • App Exposé
  • Space left / Space right
  • Show Desktop

These send the real macOS gestures, so they behave exactly as they would on the Mac.

On this page