i3 Window Manager keyboard shortcuts
Explore all 32 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys for i3 Window Manager 2025 on an interactive visual keyboard. Toggle modifiers (Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Meta), filter by category, and search any command or key combination.
Top 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
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