Sway keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Printable cheat sheet covering all 45 Sway 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
- Meta+6 — Switch to workspace 6
- Meta+7 — Switch to workspace 7
- Meta+8 — Switch to workspace 8
- Meta+9 — Switch to workspace 9
- Meta+0 — Switch to workspace 10
- Shift+Meta+1 — Move to workspace 1
- Shift+Meta+2 — Move to workspace 2
- Shift+Meta+3 — Move to workspace 3
- Shift+Meta+4 — Move to workspace 4
- Shift+Meta+5 — Move to workspace 5
- Shift+Meta+6 — Move to workspace 6
- Shift+Meta+7 — Move to workspace 7
- Shift+Meta+8 — Move to workspace 8
- Shift+Meta+9 — Move to workspace 9
- Shift+Meta+0 — Move to workspace 10
- Shift+Meta+Q — Close window
- Shift+Meta+C — Reload config
- Shift+Meta+E — Exit
- Meta+Minus — Scratchpad show
- Shift+Meta+Minus — Scratchpad move
- Shift+Meta+Q — Kill focused
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