Awesome WM keyboard shortcuts
Explore all 27 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys for Awesome WM 2025 on an interactive visual keyboard. Toggle modifiers (Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Meta), filter by category, and search any command or key combination.
Top shortcuts
- Enter — Open terminal
- J — Focus next
- K — Focus previous
- Shift+J — Swap next
- Shift+K — Swap previous
- Ctrl+J — Focus next screen
- Ctrl+K — Focus previous screen
- U — Jump to urgent
- Tab — Go back
- L — Increase master width
- H — Decrease master width
- Shift+L — Increase columns
- Shift+H — Decrease columns
- Space — Select layout 1
- Shift+Space — Select layout 2
- F — Toggle fullscreen
- M — Toggle maximized
- Ctrl+Space — Toggle floating
- Shift+C — Close window
- N — Minimize
- Ctrl+N — Restore minimized
- W — Toggle menu
- W — Show main menu
- R — Run prompt
- X — Run Lua prompt
- Ctrl+R — Restart awesome
- Shift+Q — Quit awesome
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