The tutorial
The speech bubble that teaches GoTo, the command palette and the two panes — and how to run it again.
The tutorial is fman's onboarding tour: a small speech bubble that walks you through GoTo, the command palette and the two panes.
It starts by itself on the first run, in the left pane. Afterwards you can start
it again from the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P → Tutorial), and on macOS
from the Help menu. If you abort the tour on a first run and then reach for
the mouse, fman offers it once more.
A second tour, Cleanup guide, uses the same bubble to walk you through tidying a folder.
Where the bubble sits
Bottom right of the window, with a small margin, above the status bar when that is shown. The position is deliberately stable: the bubble does not follow the cursor, the active pane, or a dialog.
It moves in exactly one case — when an open dialog would overlap it, it hops to just above that dialog, still right-aligned.
Driving it from the keyboard
The tour is meant to teach the keyboard, so it can be driven from the keyboard.
- Enter activates the focused button, which is painted as the default one so you can see where Enter would go.
- Arrow keys move between the buttons — Left and Up back, Right and Down forward, wrapping around.
- Alt and the underlined letter activates a button wherever focus is.
- The last button is the affirmative one by convention, and it is the one focused when a step opens.
Where the keyboard goes
Each step decides for itself whether the bubble takes focus:
| The step asks you to… | Keyboard goes to |
|---|---|
| Press a key in the pane — "press Tab", "press F5", "type its name" | the directory pane |
| Acknowledge and move on — "Yes"/"No", "Continue", "Close" | the bubble's buttons |
While a bubble holds the keyboard, fman's own shortcuts do not fire and the pane's cursor row loses its highlight. Both come back when the step closes and focus is handed back to the pane, so the next step's instructions land where you expect.