i3 Window Manager keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Printable cheat sheet covering all 32 i3 Window Manager 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.
All shortcuts
- Meta+Enter — Open terminal
- Meta+J — Focus left
- Meta+K — Focus down
- Meta+L — Focus up
- Meta+Semicolon — Focus right
- Meta+A — Focus parent
- Meta+Space — Toggle focus mode
- Shift+Meta+J — Move window left
- Shift+Meta+K — Move window down
- Shift+Meta+L — Move window up
- Shift+Meta+Semicolon — Move window right
- Meta+F — Toggle fullscreen
- Meta+V — Split vertically
- Meta+H — Split horizontally
- Meta+R — Enter resize mode
- Meta+E — Default layout
- Meta+S — Stacking layout
- Meta+W — Tabbed layout
- Shift+Meta+Space — Toggle floating
- Meta+1 — Switch to workspace 1
- Meta+2 — Switch to workspace 2
- Meta+3 — Switch to workspace 3
- Meta+4 — Switch to workspace 4
- Meta+5 — Switch to workspace 5
- Shift+Meta+1 — Move to workspace 1
- Shift+Meta+2 — Move to workspace 2
- Shift+Meta+3 — Move to workspace 3
- Meta+D — Open launcher
- Shift+Meta+Q — Close window
- Shift+Meta+C — Reload config
- Shift+Meta+R — Restart i3
- Shift+Meta+E — Exit i3
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