weston-bindings - Man Page
a list of keyboard bindings for Weston — the reference Wayland compositor
Introduction
The Weston desktop shell has a number of keyboard shortcuts. They are listed here.
Description
Almost all keyboard shortcuts for Weston include a specified modifier mod which is determined in the file weston.ini(5).
- mod + Shift + F
Make active window fullscreen
- mod + K
Kill active window
- mod + Shift + M
Maximize active window
- mod + Shift + KEY_LEFT
Make the active window tiled left.
- mod + Shift + KEY_RIGHT
Make the active window tiled right.
- mod + Shift + KEY_UP
Make the active window tiled top.
- mod + Shift + KEY_DOWN
Make the active window tiled bottom.
- mod + Tab
Switch active window
- Ctrl + Alt + Backspace
If supported, terminate Weston. (Note this combination often is used to hard restart Xorg.)
- Ctrl + Alt + F
Toggle if Weston is fullscreen; only works when nested under a Wayland compositor
- Ctrl + Alt + S
Share output screen, if possible
- Ctrl + Alt + F1/F2/F3/F4/F5/F6/F7/F8
Switch virtual terminal, if possible
- Super + S
Make a screenshot of the desktop
- Super + R
Start or stop recording video of the desktop
Touch / Mouse Bindings
There are also a number of bindings involving a mouse:
- <Touch>, <Left button>, <Right button>
Activate clicked window
- Super + Alt + <Vertical Scroll>
Change the opacity of a window
- mod + <Left button>
Click and drag to move a window
- mod + Shift + <Left button>, mod + <Right button>, mod + <Touch>
Click and drag to resize a window
- mod + <Middle button>
Rotate the window (if supported)
Debug Bindings
The combination mod + Shift + Space begins a debug binding. Debug bindings are completed by pressing an additional key. For example, pressing M may cycle through the GL renderer debug modes. Most debug effects can be disabled again by repeating the command. Debug bindings are often tied to specific backends. Below are the debug bindings available.
- KEY_D :
Subscribe for flight recorder.
- - KEY_C :
Enable/Disable cursor planes.
- - KEY_V :
Enable/Disable overlay planes.
- - KEY_Q :
Start VAAPI recorder.
- - KEY_M :
Cycle through gl-renderer debug modes: none, wireframe, batches, damage, opaque.
- - KEY_R :
Enable repaint debugging for Pixman.
See Also
weston(1), weston-drm(7), weston.ini(5), xkeyboard-config(7)