> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.socketchat.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Commands > Every slash command in the chat screen and every socketchat terminal command, with its flags. ## Slash commands Type these in the chat screen's message box. Tab completes a command as you type it. ### Rooms and people | Command | What it does | | - | - | | `/new ` | Start a new group chat on the open room's server, and say which server. | | `/invite` | Make a one-time link that brings someone into this chat, and copy an invite message. | | `/invite --dm` | Make a link that opens a new two-person chat. | | `/join ` | Use an invite link someone sent you. | | `/dm ` | Start a two-person chat with someone in this chat. | | `/switch [room]` | Open another room. Tab completes the name; with no name, opens the switcher. | | `/verify ` | Compare safety numbers with someone. | | `/name ` | Change the name others see for you. | | `/rename ` | Rename someone on your screen only. | | `/invites` | See your open invite links. | | `/cancel ` | Stop an invite link from the `/invites` list. | | `/details` | See this room's admins, size, age and server. | | `/mute` | Hide this room's new-message count. | | `/unmute` | Show this room's new-message count again. | | `/leave` | Leave this chat and delete its history here. | | `/clear` | Delete this room's messages from this computer. | ### Admins | Command | What it does | | - | - | | `/kick ` | Remove someone. | | `/admin ` | Make someone an admin. | | `/title ` | Rename this room for everyone. | | `/close` | Close this room for everyone, once the admins agree. | | `/keep` | Say no to closing this room. | ### Files | Command | What it does | | - | - | | `/send ` | Send a file, photo or video. | | `/save [folder]` | Save a file someone sent. Use `:` when several files share a name. | ### Servers | Command | What it does | | - | - | | `/servers` | List every server your profile knows, numbered, with how many of your rooms are on each and whether it is connected, could not be reached and why, or not connected yet. | | `/forget ` | Delete a server from the `/servers` list, with its rooms, from this computer. Asks first. | `/forget` deletes that server's rooms, their messages and keys, the joins waiting there, the invite links you made there, its certificate and your account key, all from this computer only. The server is not told, so others there still see you in its rooms until an admin removes you. If the server still works, `/leave` its rooms first. Run `/servers` before `/forget`, because `/forget` takes a number from the last list it showed. New rooms go on the open room's server. With no room open, they go on the newest server you joined. `/new` says which one, as in "Made Book club on chat.example.com.", and `/servers` marks that server "(new rooms go here)". ### The app | Command | What it does | | - | - | | `/theme [name]` | See or change the colors: `phosphor` or `classic`. | | `/mouse [on\|off]` | Turn mouse clicks and scrolling on or off. | | `/help` | List every command. | | `/about` | See the version and what Socketchat is. | | `/quit` | Close Socketchat. | A name with spaces goes in quotes, as in `/save "beach day.jpg"`. ## Terminal commands Run these in a terminal. `socketchat --help` and `socketchat --help` print the same list. | Command | What it does | | - | - | | `socketchat` | Open the chat screen. With no profile yet, print how to start. | | `socketchat join [--new-certificate]` | Use an invite link. The first time, this also sets up your profile. Opens the chat screen when run in a terminal. | | `socketchat new [--server ]` | Start a new group chat on the newest server you joined, or on the server at that number in `socketchat servers`. | | `socketchat servers [--forget ] [--yes]` | List your servers and whether each can be reached, or forget one. `--yes` forgets without asking first. | | `socketchat invite --group ` | Print an invite link to a room, on one line. | | `socketchat invite --dm` | Print a link that opens a new two-person chat. | | `socketchat invites [--cancel ]` | List your open invite links, or cancel one. | | `socketchat send --group ...` | Send a message to a room. | | `socketchat log --group [--limit ]` | Print a room's recent messages, 50 by default, and mark them read. When more are unread than the limit, prints the oldest unread first. | | `socketchat sync` | Fetch everything new and print what happened. | | `socketchat server init [--host
] [--listen ] [--data-dir ]` | Set up a server. See [Server settings](/hosting/server-settings). | | `socketchat server run [--data-dir ] [--config ]` | Run the server until Ctrl-C. | | `socketchat server invite [--data-dir ]` | Print a one-time link that registers a new person on this server. | | `socketchat --version` | Print the version. | `--new-certificate` trusts the server certificate in the link in place of the one Socketchat already trusts for that server, after its operator set it up again. See [A certificate-change warning](/help/troubleshooting#a-certificate-change-warning). `socketchat servers --forget` deletes the same things as `/forget`. Away from a terminal it cannot ask, so it stops and says to add `--yes`. `--group` takes a room's name, ignoring upper and lower case. If you are in two rooms with the same name, the command says so. ## Environment variables | Variable | What it does | | - | - | | `SOCKETCHAT_HOME` | Use a different profile folder. Useful to run a second identity, such as an agent, on one computer. | | `SOCKETCHAT_PASSPHRASE` | The passphrase, so commands do not ask for it. For scripts; never put it in a shell profile on a shared machine. | | `SOCKETCHAT_NAME` | The display name to use when `socketchat join` sets up a new profile. | | `SOCKETCHAT_THEME` | `phosphor` or `classic` for this run only. | ## Exit codes Commands exit with 0 on success, 2 when the passphrase does not open the profile, and 1 for any other error. Errors print to standard error. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.