Desktop Keybindings

Keystone Desktop is designed around keyboard-first navigation.

The launcher and desktop workflow center on a small set of bindings:

Launchers and menus

• $mod+Return opens Ghostty
• $mod+Space opens Walker
• $mod+D opens the Keystone project switcher
• $mod+Escape opens the Keystone menu
• $mod+K opens the keybindings menu

Walker prefixes

Once Walker is open, these prefixes switch directly to useful providers:

• . for files
• = for calculator
• $ for clipboard history
• / for the provider list

Walker and Elephant together provide the backend for these desktop menus. See Walker for the launcher architecture and project navigation model.

Window and workspace control

• $mod+H and $mod+L move focus horizontally
• $mod+left/right/up/down move focus between windows
• $mod+Shift+left/right/up/down swap windows
• $mod+1 through $mod+0 switch workspaces
• $mod+Shift+1 through $mod+Shift+0 move the current window to a workspace
• $mod+Tab and $mod+Shift+Tab move between workspaces
• Alt+Tab cycles through windows

Utilities

• $mod+Ctrl+V opens the clipboard manager
• $mod+Ctrl+E opens the emoji and symbols picker
• Print starts a screenshot
• Shift+Print captures a smart screenshot to the clipboard
• $mod+Print opens the color picker

Related docs

• Walker
• Projects and pz
• Notes