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- Add optional modifier-only Super binding whose tap is cancelled by other input, focus changes, grabs, locks, and session teardown. - Ship the native ferese-rime user service, Rime defaults, installer inventory, package dependencies, session environment, and docs. - Vendor Smithay 8a27023 with the SHM texture-cache format fix and add GPU regressions for format changes and resize snapshots. - Release reused CRTC owners before staging output modes, then restore changed outputs before former owners when a transaction fails. - Wait for resize-capture GPU completion, expand filtered surface damage, and preserve IME popup origin under fractional scaling. - Mark weekends like holidays in both calendar layouts.
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Shortcuts and gestures
Super is usually the Windows key. These are the built-in defaults. Open
Settings → Shortcuts to change bindings and gestures or disable the login
guide. Your saved bindings can override these defaults.
The example config adds the app, media and arrow-key
shortcuts listed below.
Edit bindings in Settings
Choose Add shortcut, record the combination, then search for an action. Recording temporarily inhibits Ferese shortcuts after the compositor confirms the inhibition; Escape, focus loss, leaving the page or the 15-second timeout releases it. A key menu with modifier buttons is also available for combinations reserved by a host desktop. Mouse buttons, wheel directions and three-, four- or five-finger swipes use the same editor.
The editor provides action-specific arguments and an application command field. Commands are parsed into an argument vector; no shell is invoked. Adding an existing custom combination updates that binding; editing another binding into a duplicate reports a conflict. Changes apply globally. A physical-key binding retains its matching mode when only its action changes; recording or choosing a new key switches to key-label matching.
Launcher
Super + Space opens the launcher. Type to search, press Tab to accept completion, or Enter to open the selected match. Down shows alternatives. The Apps, Files and Windows tiles browse each source separately.
Escape clears the query, returns from a browse view, then closes the launcher, one step per press. In Windows, Alt + Enter moves the selected window to the current workspace. Power off, restart and logout also require Alt + Enter.
Run feresectl launcher toggle to open or close it from a script.
To also toggle the launcher by pressing and releasing Super alone, add
binding "Super" action="toggle-launcher" to your configuration. The action runs
on release; using another key, the pointer or a held mouse button cancels it, so
Super+Space and Super+mouse combinations continue to work. See
modifier-only bindings for input ownership and
cancellation behavior.
Move and resize with the mouse
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Super + left-button drag | Move a floating or tiled window |
| Super + right-button drag | Resize the edge or corner selected by the starting 3×3 region |
| Right-click while moving | Switch the drop between floating and tiled |
| Escape during a drag | Cancel the move or resize |
| Hold Shift during a move or resize | Bypass edge snapping |
| Super + Shift + Space | Switch the focused window between tiled and floating |
You can drag from inside the window; a title bar or resize border is not required. Drop a tiled window beside another window to reorder it, or in its center to join a tab group. Drag across monitors to move to the workspace shown there. Scroll or hold at a horizontal screen edge to reach more scrolling columns. The central resize region selects the nearest corner. Floating windows snap to nearby edges; continuing to drag beyond 20 logical pixels releases the snap.
Focus, move, and resize
H, J, K, and L mean left, down, up, and right.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Super + H / J / K / L | Focus in that direction |
| Super + Backspace | Return to the last focused window, including on another workspace or monitor |
| Alt + Tab | Preview recent windows in focus order |
| Alt + Shift + Tab | Preview recent windows in reverse focus order |
| Super + Shift + H / J / K / L | Move the focused window in that direction |
| Super + Ctrl + H / J / K / L | Resize in that direction |
| Super + Q | Close the focused window |
| Super + F | Maximize or restore the window |
| Super + Shift + F | Enter or leave fullscreen |
Maximize fills the available workspace. Fullscreen also hides the bar and window decorations.
Keep Alt held to cycle through recent windows. Release Alt to select the previewed window, or press Escape to cancel. Repeating Super + Backspace toggles between the two most recently focused windows.
Columns and layouts
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Super + R | Cycle column width |
| Super + C | Center the focused column |
| Super + [ | Join a neighbouring column or tree tab group |
| Super + ] | Leave the column or tree tab group |
| Super + Ctrl + [ / ] | Previous / next tab in a group |
| Super + Shift + T | Toggle a scrolling column between stacked rows and tabs |
| Super + M | Switch scrolling / tree layout |
| Super + Tab | Open or close overview |
In scrolling mode, Super + [ uses the left neighbour when available, otherwise the right. Try it with two terminals to place them vertically in one column. Super + ] separates the focused window again. Super + Shift + T changes the column to tabs or restores its stacked rows. In tabbed columns, Super + J/K switches tabs; the usual left/right focus keys still switch columns.
In tree mode, Super + [ joins the focused window to a neighbouring window
as a tab. Click a title in the tab bar or use Super + Ctrl + [ / ] to switch
tabs. Super + ] splits the focused tab out beside the group. For a specific
neighbour, bind join-tab with a direction; see Tabbed windows.
In overview, select a workspace to see its windows, then click the window you want. Directional focus keys move selection; Enter activates it and Escape closes overview.
Workspaces
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Super + 1–9 | Switch to that workspace |
| Super + Shift + 1–9 | Move the window to that workspace |
| Super + Escape | Toggle between the last two visited workspaces on this monitor |
Workspaces are created as needed and numbered separately on each monitor. Workspace shortcuts select a workspace on the focused monitor.
To make pressing the current workspace's shortcut toggle back too, enable
Settings → Windows → Toggle back with the same workspace shortcut. It is off
by default. The action can also be bound as workspace-back-and-forth or run with
feresectl workspace-back-and-forth.
Desktop actions
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Super + Enter | Open the configured terminal (foot by default) |
| Print Screen | Capture the active monitor and open Satty |
| Super + Shift + S | Select a screenshot area and open Satty |
| Super + Shift + E | Ask to log out |
| Super + F1 | Open or close the shortcut hint |
Display Fn key (XF86Display) |
Open or close the display-mode chooser |
Super + F1 works even when the guide at login is disabled. It opens on the
focused monitor. Bind toggle-keybinding-guide to change the shortcut, or run
feresectl toggle-keybinding-guide.
The display icon appears in the bar when an external monitor is connected,
including when that monitor is disabled or mirrored. Click it to choose Internal
only, External only, Extend or Mirror. Arrow keys or 1–4 select a mode; Enter
applies it. Tab moves between controls and Escape cancels. After applying, choose
Keep before the confirmation timeout or Revert to restore the last confirmed
configuration. Bind toggle-display-mode if your keyboard uses another key.
In Satty, Enter saves the edited screenshot and copies it to the clipboard; Escape discards it. See Configuration for dependencies and custom screenshot commands.
Touchpad gestures
| Three-finger swipe | Action on release |
|---|---|
| Up / down | Drag to the next / previous workspace on this monitor; release to settle |
| Left / right | Drag the window row; release to focus the window to the right / left |
Short or cancelled navigation swipes slide back. Diagonal swipes do not navigate. Gestures can use the same actions as keyboard bindings, including overview or moving a window. Four- and five-finger bindings are supported too.
Reserved and context controls
These controls are handled by the compositor rather than configurable bindings.
| Control | Action |
|---|---|
| Enter in overview | Activate the selected window |
| Escape in overview | Close overview |
| Escape during Alt + Tab | Cancel the preview without changing focus |
| Release Alt during Alt + Tab | Focus the previewed window |
| Ctrl + Alt + Escape | Release an active shortcut inhibitor or input-capture session |
| Ctrl + Alt + F1–F12 | Switch virtual terminals in a direct session |
Virtual-terminal switching is unavailable in nested previews.
Example-config shortcuts
The example config adds these to the built-in defaults. App and hardware controls require their configured programs to be installed.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Super + B | Open Firefox |
| Super + Z | Open Zed |
| Super + Alt + L | Lock with ferese-lock |
| Super + Left / Down / Up / Right | Focus in that direction |
| Super + Ctrl + Left / Down / Up / Right | Move the focused window in that direction |
| Super + Alt + Left / Down / Up / Right | Resize in that direction |
| Brightness up / down | Adjust brightness with brightnessctl |
| Volume up / down | Adjust volume with wpctl |
| Audio mute | Toggle output mute with wpctl |
| Microphone mute | Toggle microphone mute with wpctl |
Add a shortcut
For example, bind a lock command and use a swipe to open overview:
commands {
lock "ferese-lock"
}
binding "Super+Alt+L" "spawn" "lock"
binding "Swipe3Up" "toggle-overview"
These are examples, not defaults. To disable a built-in binding:
binding "Super+Q" disabled=#true
See Commands and bindings for action names, arguments, and physical-key matching.
In scrolling columns, hover over the left-edge tab indicator for window titles. Click a segment or title to switch tabs. Keyboard tab switching briefly shows the selected tab number and title without opening the list.