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leopechansky
Jan 26, 2021 5:18 PM UTC

Customizable shortcuts

The main source of inspiration for this idea was to match the keyboard shortcuts themselves to different keyboard layouts. Right now, users who don’t use US keyboards have to memorize the location of the keys, rather than to use the actual character location to be able to use the shortcuts. Those involving this region are primarily the case:


ABNT2 layout (Brazil).

And here’s an example of confusing shortcuts:

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Although this problem could be solved by just rebinding the shortcuts to the actual character and not the location on the keyboard, I’ve noticed there are some other issues concerning key bindings.

On this forum post, a member of the community asked for help on backing one layer level with a different shortcut from what Figma has right now. This makes the user adapt their workflow to the tool, and not the other way around — and that hinders efficiency. It would be nice if the tool itself provided some sort of customization on this regard.

Although being a workaround, Mac users can customize keyboard shortcuts by application, but it is a bit limited. It’s also not a possibility for Windows users.

I think this could be a game-changer, as i’ve seen people who refused to migrate from other tools to Figma because they couldn’t customize shortcuts. It would also give the user more control over the tool and their workflow.

What do you guys think about it?

203 replies

dustavsson
Dec 2, 2021 12:17 PM UTC

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.

Arvid_Brane
Dec 7, 2021 2:10 PM UTC

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

Falk_Pauser
Jan 1, 2022 10:12 PM UTC

Me too! Working with a german keyboard on linux.

DoPeT
Jan 10, 2022 1:33 AM UTC

It’s a bummer they don’t support it, but use BetterTouchTool (OS X) 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.

RubyComp
Jan 10, 2022 10:22 PM UTC

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.
Gleb
Power Member
Jan 10, 2022 10:38 PM UTC

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.

RubyComp
Jan 10, 2022 10:49 PM UTC

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.

Willi_Maese
Jan 17, 2022 9:27 AM UTC

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

Bruno_Cloutier
New Member
Jan 17, 2022 1:54 PM UTC

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.

Mmdasn
Jan 25, 2022 10:41 AM UTC

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