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Aleksander_Klajderic
February 11, 2021
Question

Toggle Show/Hide UI not working on Windows since Ctrl + can not be pressed

  • February 11, 2021
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At least on European keyboards (don’t know about the others) there is no dedicated backslash button. Therefore I can not use Ctrl + \ to show or hide the UI of the Figma web app.

Keyboard combinations with Alt are not working.

If I hide the UI with the help of the menu, I can not Show it again since the menu is part of the UI. !!??!

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62 replies

Philippe_Chambon
New Member
November 19, 2021

Same here with a French Canadian qwerty Mac keyboard…
I know we can use the quick command / but it doesn’t really make thing quick …

for example the moving front and back shortcut is using [ and ]
HOWEVER [ is on alt +9
and ] is on alt + 0

which is already bind by default to the very useful switching to Design Prototype and Inspect tab

Skander
November 24, 2021

I have an AZERTY ( French ) keyboard on my Mac and I can’t use the shortcuts for some features like “chat” and “quick actions”.

For example : the default shortcut for chat is “/” . However to type “/” on an AZERTY keybord i have to click “Shift”. When I press Shift+/ it doesn’t work.

As the shortcuts are adapted for the QWERTY keyboard, is there a way to adapt them manually for my AZERTY keyboard ?

Alexis_GEROME
December 3, 2021

Hey Simon, tu m’as devancé je voulais reply la même chose hehe 🙂

Marouane_Dekkaki
New Member
January 27, 2022

ℹ️ For mac users

This may help for European keyboards which don’t have a specific backslash ( \ ) key (Azerty keyboard), the shortcut that works for me is:

⬆ Shift + ⌥ option + ⌘ Command + :

(The : key is the one with slash symbol /)

Gabriel7
March 21, 2022

Salvou demais! Tmj

Nico_Dure
May 11, 2022

This key was the only one bordering windows on the keyboard that didn’t have the separate . Control + | It would be in my case, or the key that is to the left of 1 and above the tab. I’ve been looking for this option for a long time, thank you very much

Agathe_Mazur
June 13, 2022

Hello !

I don’t know if french people are still looking for the answer. Figma is still displaying Ctrl + \ for hiding and showing panes in its ‘essential keyboard shortcuts’ (when you click on the ‘?’ in the right bottom of your canvas). It doesn’t matter since the real shortcut to hide and show menus isCtrl + *. Strange that Figma hasn’t been updated! But it works for me.

Hope this helps!

bengala
New Member
June 16, 2022

With the new mac keyboard is ⌘ + | 👌🏽

StLa1
August 2, 2022

@Gleb The snackbar dialog shown when the prototyp UI is hidden needs to be updated according to the keyboard shortcut layout

Gleb
Power Member
August 3, 2022

I can’t do it.