# Combos

> Save a set of windows with their layout and start the same share in one click.

Source: https://curtains.app/help/combos/

A combo saves your windows and how you arranged them, so you can start the same share again with one click or one key.

## What a combo saves

- Which windows, by app and window title, in canvas order.
- The layout, and where each window is in Free.
- Which window is the large one in Focus.
- Blur regions and whole-window blur.
- An optional hotkey.

It doesn't save your theme, your ink, or the state of the apps themselves. Combos are stored on your Mac.

## Save a combo

1. Pick your windows and arrange them, in a draft or while you're sharing.
2. Click **Combos** in the rail on the left edge.
3. Under **Save what you share now as a combo**, type a name in **Combo name**.
4. Click **Save combo**.

*Image: The Combos panel. At the top, Save what you share now as a combo, with a name field and a Save combo button. Below, two saved combos, Client review and Code walkthrough, each with their apps, a layout, a Hotkey field, move buttons, Update and delete.*

The save box stays disabled until at least one window is picked.

## Start a combo

With no session running, the **Combos** panel opens by default, and **Start** is on each combo. If you've folded the panel away, your combos are listed at the top of **Sources** instead, each with a **Start** button. They're hidden from Sources while you search or while the Combos panel is open.

*Image: The top of Sources with no session and the Combos panel folded away. A Combos heading lists Client review, Code walkthrough and Design crit, each with its app icons and a Start button, and Design crit marked 1 not open, above the Windows list.*

Curtains looks for each saved window among your open ones: an exact title match first, then a title pattern, then the app's front window. It starts with whatever it finds, and a message names any app it couldn't find, and any windows left out by your plan's limit. A combo with none of its apps open can't start.

A combo starts the session directly, with Curtains Presenter open. With **Start Paused** on in **Settings › Presenter**, which is the default, it starts **Paused**: viewers see the holding card, and you can check the layout and blur before you click **Live**. With **Start Paused** off, it starts Live. A combo's saved blur is applied from the first frame either way.

Starting a combo replaces a draft you had going. You can't start one while Curtains Presenter is already open, so **End** the session first.

## Start a combo with a key

Give a combo its own hotkey in its **Hotkey** field in the Combos panel. The key works from any app. Combos with a hotkey are also listed in the **Shortcuts** sheet in the rail.

## Update, rename, reorder and delete

- **Rename:** click the combo's name.
- **Reorder:** drag its grip, or use the up and down buttons.
- **Update:** while you're sharing, click **Update**, then **Replace?**, to replace the combo with what you share now.
- **Delete:** click the bin, then **Confirm**.

Replacing and deleting each ask twice, because they can't be undone.

## Related

- [Layouts](https://curtains.app/help/layouts/)
- [Blur and hide](https://curtains.app/help/blur-and-hide/)
- [Apps in Sources](https://curtains.app/help/hidden-apps/)
- [Keyboard shortcuts](https://curtains.app/help/keyboard-shortcuts/)
- [Live, Paused and End](https://curtains.app/help/live-paused-and-end/)