@Josh @admins I see this has been an ongoing issue since '21, has there been any movement on this topic?
Hey @joep, no major updates to share on this other than our team is actively working on adding the ability to create customizable shortcuts. As the project develops, we’ll do our best to keep the community updated here. Thanks! 😊
As the project develops, we’ll do our best to keep the community updated here.
So modest, “as project develops”. If only Figma had Billions of dollars to attend problems that users been begging for years. oh wait…
The problem has been around, I believe, since Figma’s inception. It just gets closed and reopened.
Pleeeease allow me to change the mousewheel zoom key from CTRL to ALT
My muscle memory from Adobe (Photoshop) to Figma keeps messing me up when I switch back and forth
Same @Matthew_Schwartz, this is the only key I’d like to change, the other ones are fine
Naming in automation really means nothing to the Automater. Or any code. You have to specify inputs as variables, then store that input in the variable for sending to the action to use as context.
thats the reason? ha. I mean… its cmd+] front and cmd+d to send back.
When I want to enter fullscreen on Chrome on Mac, I normally press “Shift + Cmd + F”.
In Figma, this opens the search.
Same here. Happy If I can only adjust this one short key… It’s driving me nuts.
Our dev team follows the prototype link-lines to find destination pages in Figma.
Action: they choose a button with a link, and manually scroll across the document, following the ptototype link line, to locate the destination page. It works, but could be better.
Request: a Zoom method (i.e., a shift-option-2 method) to zoom to the destination view of a selected link.
Worst shortcut: cmd+B.
This has messed up so many designs for me.
When copying or pasting something, I would accidentally click the shortcut and miss it and then way later I would notice that a lot of design texts are broken.
I feel that this is by design, I am not sure what purpose it serves having a fixed set of shortcuts since it is an established standard in most editing software by now.
And I don’t think it will take much effort to create such a feature.
Mehhh
It would most certainly help with accessibility
This is an absolut must have.
One of the best examples is After Effects. Not only you can change a shortcut pretty easily, but you can also see what certain keys do as you press them.
Super user friendly!
Bro, I’m literally struggling to hide/show UI with my tablet keyboard, my spanish keyboard, and my windows spanish+english keyboard…
How did you solve it? I have the same problem…
I recommend a third party software product called Keyboard Maestro for US $36. I’m not the first to recommend it, but that is how I solved my keyboard shortcut issues (of which I have several 😉 ).
I have a problem with the ‘ś’ letter in Polish. The Windows shortcut 'right alt+S" opens “Add to version history” which is frustrating… is there a way to bypass?
I’m sorry I don’t have an answer for you, without using third-party software. Somehow, Figma thinks it’s OK to make keyboard shortcuts without using Control or Command. Which is ridiculous, because only using option and/or shift + any key can always type some sort of character.
Just another unconventional way that Figma decides is OK.
Ugh!
How is this still not fixed? Is it really that hard to have customizable keyboard shortcuts like pretty much any other tool I use?
It’s been over a year since your colleague said it’s in the works. You’ve been ‘actively working’ on this for how long now?
I have dual layout on shift where tapping it creates a bracket (. Somehow it interprets that as the shortcut Shift+1. But for some reason every time I tab shift it zooms to fit. Which happens at least 30 times a day. Then I have to manually zoom back in. I’m going to loose my mind over this. I can’t switch software cause I’m adjusting to my client.
This combined with the recent general bugginess of the software has me desperate to find a new tool to switch to. I am actively looking for alternatives to recommend to future clients.The Keyboard layout switcher ‘fix’ does absolutely nothing for me. It’s frustrating as hell that this seemingly basic feature request is ignored for so many years.
@fro to be precise: this ticket has been open since Jan 2021
Yeah, and yet another crazy thing? Figma actually thought it was a better idea to work on a physical keyboard than to fix this! Just a little salt in the ol’ wound.
Maybe now that they’re getting $1,000,000,000(!) they can spend a little of that on solving this.
Three years and counting…
Someone else has probably brought this up, but I need to be able to quickly switch the snapping. Having only one shortcut for pixel grid makes moving from designing to grid to having more flexible positioning makes this lack of customization a pain point for me.
Not to mention all of my other use cases. But particularly, switching snapping is incredibly clunky.
Not having the ability to remap or turn off single character shortcuts goes against WCAG accessibility because they could interfere with screen readers. Understanding Success Criterion 2.1.4: Character Key Shortcuts | WAI | W3C
For example the “c” (comment) shortcut should be able to be remapped to another combination or Figma should allow us to turn it off. I’m forever hitting it.
I would have thought Figma would provide this before they are held liable?? Especially in Europe where accessibility standards are WCAG 2.1 AA.
