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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

Federico_Dion
January 26, 2024

wowwwwwwwww thank you sooooo much!

HosokawaR
February 5, 2024

In my case it was conflicting with 1Password ctrl + \ shortcut.

Environment: Windows 11, Figma desktop app, US layout keyboard

Theo16
February 6, 2024

I had some issue with my french azerty keyboard with the “@” key to hide/show UI.
Just figure it out that you have to press “²” and it works perfectly
De rien 🙂

Caimi_Piccinni
March 11, 2024

It worked for me to change the keyboard layout to “generic”. To do that: first go to the “?” symbol to the bottom right of the screen; in the menu select “change keyboard layout”; in the keyboard panel that appears select “generic” from the small menu on the left. Done.

Benny_Stuhler
March 15, 2024

For the german folks who have this problem:
In Figma it says that you should press ^ but you actually need to press this “<” key

Felipe_Martins1
April 3, 2024

I had the same problem and what worded for me was Ctrl + ]

Holse_Mattias
New Member
April 10, 2024

They “solved” the problem for some languages some 20 days ago.

Normally you need to press §. But for some reason it does not work anymore.
Maybe we just need to be even more patient… who knows.

April 19, 2024

Command + . for me (Mexico)

April 28, 2024

OMFG! 2 years I’ve struggled to find why this does not work. Indeed, 1Password was conflicting with this.

THANK YOU! 🙏

I wish there was a way to see all the app level shortcuts in windows in one place.

Emirhan_Dikci
New Member
May 2, 2024

CTRL + Ç (for Turkish)