Last updated: 2026-03-19
Shortcut packs are JSON documents that describe keyboard shortcuts for specific Windows processes — for example devenv.exe or photoshop.exe. They ship with FluentOverlay and can be extended with community or custom packs.
FluentOverlay always tries live menu reading first (UI Automation). When an app exposes a classic menu bar, you see current items straight from the UI.
If there is no usable menu surface — common for many creative tools, Electron apps, or heavily customised IDEs — FluentOverlay looks for a pack whose processNames match the foreground executable. When a match exists, the overlay shows the pack contents instead of an empty state.
We ship 157+ curated packs covering categories such as Adobe Creative Cloud, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio / VS Code, Microsoft Office, browsers, CAD, and common developer utilities. Pack content is localized in six languages (en, de, es, fr, hi, zh) under the FluentOverlay repository’s Packs/i18n layout.
You can import JSON packs shared by the community or authored yourself. The Pack Editor (Pro) is the easiest path; hand-written JSON is also supported. See Creating custom packs and Contributing for workflow details.
