Custom shortcuts would be great. But my hopes are low, two years ago the support told me, that they will look into it 🤔

@anon21722796 I’m also working on windows with a german keyboard layout. What is the current approach to have a decent workflow by using keyboard shortcuts?

same here with swiss keyboard

Same with Latin American keyboards.

This is indeed an important feature that should be delivered ASAP.

Unfortunately it doesn’t work (Mac) 😭

Same with Swedish keyboard, most shortcuts aren’t available. Please Figma, think about people outside the US ;D

How can we vote on this request? Also, it seems like some shortcuts can be achieved, just with different combinations. For example Command + P on some non-English keyboard works for Quick Actions (usually Command + / ).

@anon21722796

This absolutely NEEDS to be a thing. I work both on mac and windows. I have Finnish keyboard and most of your default shortcuts don’t work on this. With Mac I have everything customized through mac’s own application shortcuts feature. That’s not possible in Windows.

Even the most basic stuff is different in Mac and Windows (like zooming with alt) and I would like to change everything to be same hand position in both.

This slows my work down like 40% and I’m thinking about giving Figma up just because of this. I love the tool in every possible way otherwise! Love it!

Good job on the software but please, please add this. Big portion, nay, HUGE portion of your users are not on default set keyboard!

Does not work with all shortcuts.

I set Command + Shift + Ä for «Bring to front». Did not work

Command + Shift + Ö for «Send to back» worked.

Command + ; for «Show layout grid» on the other hand didn’t work either.

Does anybody know a trick to invoke the Cursor chat feature? It says the keyboard shortcut is “/“, but we all know that isn’t right on non-US keyboards. It’s not a menu item either, so I can’t try to create my own shortcut in System Preferences. I can right click to invoke it, but it’s still very cumbersome.

I agree with everyone above, this needs to be a thing. It’s a pain in the b*t to do this for international keyboards. @anon21722796

Me too! Working with a german keyboard on linux.

It’s a bummer they don’t support it, but use BetterTouchTool (OS or PowerToys (Windows) to customize anything your heart desires and then some! You can do very powerful shortcuts with them. I essentially remapped Figma to replicate Sketch on both operating systems.

@PixelSushiRobot dialed it with recommending BTT on OS X. The key sequences are amazing with having variations of Lorem Ipsum, Dates, Time, Random Names, etc. It’s such a killer tool, I recommend their BetterSnapTool as well.

Why hotkeys in Figma so fiddly??? For example, if my left-hand fingers at position: Ctrl, Shift, S, F, Space, how I can use action Alt + H? I must move all my hand for this easiest action. Or, what about strange Ctrl + Shift + L? I cant use this with one hand, my finger can reach J button only! Are you kidded me?!?!?!

• Yes. I’m understand that this is duplicate, but Figma shortcuts extremely useless any way.

Does it mean you want all shortcuts to be reachable with left hand only without moving it? There probably won’t be enough keys for that.

Look at Adobe Xd hotkeys, it’s pretty good. For first example Shift+C, for second Ctrl+L (I can use right Ctrl at both program, but two-buttons Ctrl+L much clear than Ctrl+Shift+L).

And, yes, I see no reason to use two hands for the most popular combinations. I will lose too much time and concentration by moving my right hand a huge distance.

But, I’m don’t talking about specific combination. I’m talking about user preference, where I can change default keys.

Same here with spanish keyboard in mac. In sketch all shortcuts work well.

I don’t have a problem with shortcuts, but in french, there are certain very important characters which simply cannot be typed in Figma because some shortcuts is linked to it, even inside of text boxes.

That can be realy helpfull for working whit plugins and other things.

This is a bad response. You can do better.

If we could remap the hotkeys it would be entirely possible to map all the shortcuts you’d use frequently to a left hand position, entirely negating the implied condescension in your post.

1. I don’t work for Figma


2. The initial post didn’t ask for customizable shortcuts, but after further conversation it turned out to be the only solution (just what you are proposing) so the conversation was moved here

Same in Spanish ISO keyboard on WIndows, most of the shortcuts won’t work.

1. What does you working for Figma have to do with it being a bad response?


2. Sure seems like he’s suggesting that customizable shortcuts would be a useful addition.

Hey there, I just wanna give a little feedback here. When designing, I often use some symbols from the keyboard shortcuts. But some, it’s a shortcut. So could you just disable it or maybe change the shortcut combination for this decrease letter space (opt+,) which refer to ≤, this increase letter space (opt+.) which refer to ≥, this decrease line height (opt+shift+,) which refer to ¯ and this increase line height (opt+shift+.) which refer to ˘