Customizable shortcuts

While using the German keyboard, the cmd + Z is just besides cmd + T, which opens a new tab, and completely interrupts me workflow 🙃 pls fix thissssss

I get used with ALT/OPTION key + mouse wheel for zoom in & out in most of design industry’s apps. It’s so hard to adapt with CTRL/CMD key here in Figma.

And when I get used to the CTRL/CMD and have to switch back to other design applications, I have to adapt back to the ALT/OPTION again. So it’s frustrating me twice, and I am sure this bothers other users too.

I wish Figma dev team consider a way to customize keyboard shortcuts, but since that almost 4 years have passed since this thread has been created, it discourages my hopes.

Greetings,

I’m a frequent shortcut user, and there is so many important actions which doesn’t have shortcuts. It would be great to have ability to make custom shortcuts.

Same comes to MacBook with Touchbar, it would be grate to include custom buttons to the Touch bar! Simple in development, so much usage.

Thank you.

Figma does not allow me to edit the keyboard shortcuts, yet it would be very useful to do so. Mainly in the case of the “Actions” shortcut: [Command + ,] is not as straightforward as having [Command + K]. Despite of knowing the correct Figma shortcut, I always end up doing the latter because it’s such an ingrained behaviour acquired from working with other softwares/apps. This is the most painful case, but others would also benefit from the ability to edit.

This should be a standard feature. Come on Figma team, this is an easy win for accessibility. Also it would be good to have shortcuts organized the way we prefer for our workflows. (For example, the P key is the Pen tool but the V key is the move tool; for my workflow I want them to be close to each other. My brain keeps wanting C to be the shortcut to tweak the bend in the vectors and it brings up Comments instead, which I only ever use at the very end.)

4 years and still nothing… lol

Your comment inspired me to look at the beginning of this thread, with only 660 votes. But below the initial comment, you can see that 46 other threads have been merged with this one, with a total number of votes exceeding 5,500. So there’s no way that Figma doesn’t know it’s a desired feature. Again, I just wish they would come out and say: “We will never do this, so stop asking.” Then we can all stop wasting our time on this. And stop hoping for a change that will never happen.

Or even better, of course, would be some official response saying they’re working on it and hoping to release it by Qx of 2025. Or whatever.

yes some of the shortcuts are extremely awkward to use or understand because they were designed for MacBook laptops instead of desktop or Windows system. Giving some freedom to diverse user is a great idea. Please add the user discretionary shortcuts. Figma is a much larger compony than 6 years ago and it’s important to realize they have various users operating on different systems/ keyboards.

Blease remove ctrl B if the selected layers are not text. 

I don’t understand why to block users from customising their workflow. If it’s too complicated to implement in the Figma app itself – no problem. People can use native functionality of MacOS or third-party apps. 
I have been using specific shortcut for Align objects. I don’t know what is MORE frequent action than that. Now, out of nowhere Figma decided to assign some unknown feature to that shortcut. And I cannot even find that shortcut in the list of Figma’s shortcuts. When I tried to assign that shortcut with System Preferences on MacOS – it won’t work.. Only option I’m given – being FORCED to LEARN the shortcut Figma wants. Frankly speaking = ruining my workflow and wasting my time.
This is a bit mental.

I cannot emphasize it more – it is MUST! I could understand why Figma wouldn’t have change shortcuts in Figma app. I could understand why for new users default Figma shortcuts would be useful. But I DO NOT understand why not allowing to use an existing functionality of System Preferences of MacOS or third-party apps.
People use different apps, people have different regional keyboard layouts, people use different OSs. It is just common sense to allow people change default shortcuts to what they want.

As an option, support / upvote / comment this topic too:

• Customizable shortcuts

So this has been requested 3 years ago, still not working. Isn’t this supposed to be a basic feature?

I’m here just to upvote – I would need an option to disable some of them – like Cmd+W. To me it’s a terrible one, I keep reopening the app 🙈

I keep accidentally triggering the ‘select next sibling’ shortcut (tab) when trying to switch between apps on windows (alt-tab). It’s rather annoying & I’d like to be able to disable or remap that shortcut.

Although there are numerous great feedbacks in this thread, I want to highlight a few things: 

1. not allowing users to customize hotkeys is a horrible product decision. No flexibility, US first and clearly lazy.
2. a lot of your hotkey poses significant accessibility issue by pretty much randomly scattering thing across the board. like what on earth do you think I can type control+option +t with one hand? and if I have to let go of mouse every 3 seconds why do i even need hotkeys? totally loses the point here
3. Adobe is not a good company. I have used its product for a decade and decided to switch. do let its weird culture change you please.

any idea about the progress of implementing this feature?