# 5. Keybindings

**Mod** is the Super key. These are the shipped defaults, from
`~/.config/sway/config`. Edit that file and press `Mod+Shift+C` to reload.

## Session

| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| `Mod+Return` | Open a terminal |
| `Mod+D` | Launcher: fuzzy picker over installed apps |
| `Mod+Shift+V` | Clipboard history picker |
| `Mod+Ctrl+L` | Lock the screen |
| `Mod+Shift+C` | Reload the sway config |
| `Mod+Shift+E` | Exit the session |
| `Mod+F1` | Put the keybinding panel on the desktop away, or bring it back |

## Windows

| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| `Mod+Q` | Close the focused window |
| `Mod+F` | Fullscreen |
| `Mod+Shift+F` | Fullscreen across all outputs |
| `Mod+H` `Mod+J` `Mod+K` `Mod+L` | Focus left, down, up, right |
| `Mod+Shift+H/J/K/L` | Move the window left, down, up, right |
| `Mod+Shift+Space` | Toggle floating |
| `Mod+Space` | Move focus between tiled and floating |

## Layout

| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| `Mod+B` | Split horizontally |
| `Mod+V` | Split vertically |
| `Mod+W` | Tabbed layout |
| `Mod+S` | Stacking layout |
| `Mod+E` | Toggle split direction |
| `Mod+R` | Resize mode: `h/j/k/l` resize, Enter or Esc leaves |
| `Mod+-` | Shrink width by 10% |
| `Mod+=` | Grow width by 10% |

## Workspaces

| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| `Mod+1` .. `Mod+4` | Switch to workspace 1 through 4 |
| `Mod+Shift+1` .. `Mod+Shift+4` | Move the window to that workspace |
| `Mod+N` | Switch to the `notes` workspace |
| `Mod+M` | Switch to the `main` workspace |

## Screenshots

| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| `Print` | Capture the whole output |
| `Shift+Print` | Select a region (Esc cancels) |
| `Ctrl+Print` | Capture the active window |
| `Mod+Print` | Annotate the most recent capture in satty |

Every capture goes to `~/Pictures/Screenshots` and raises a notification.

## Media and hardware keys

| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| Volume up / down / mute | Output volume, with an on-screen indicator |
| Mic mute | Input mute |
| Brightness up / down | Backlight |
| Play / pause / next / previous | Whatever is playing, over MPRIS |
| Caps Lock | Shows a caps indicator |

## Inside the console

Every `alloy` view shares one keymap.

| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| `Tab` / `Shift+Tab` | Move between panes |
| `j` / `k` or arrows | Move within a list |
| `Enter` | Activate the selection |
| `Space` | Toggle a switch, or fold a section in a form |
| `Esc` | Cancel. In a view with nothing to cancel, leave |
| `Ctrl+S` | Save, in a file-backed form |
| `?` | Help |
| `q` | Quit |

Views with tabs switch between them with `h` and `l`. A field being edited owns
every key while it is open, so `q` types a `q` there rather than quitting.

## Inside the other tools

Alloy does not rebind the applications it adopts. helix, yazi, zathura, imv,
mpv and bottom keep their own upstream keys, all of them vim-shaped. Their own
help (`?` in yazi and bottom, `:tutor` in helix) is the reference.

## The desktop background

The desktop shows this page. Not a copy of it: the panel behind your windows
derives its two lists from the machine itself, the verbs from `alloy --help`
and the keys from your own `~/.config/sway/config`, so a bind you add appears
there the next time you log in.

`Mod+F1` puts it away and brings it back. Behind it is a cellular automaton,
which changes every fifteen minutes and repeats never:

| Pattern | What it is |
|---|---|
| Rule 30 | Wolfram's elementary cellular automaton, from one live cell |
| 10 PRINT | `10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10`, the Commodore 64 one-liner |
| Langton's ant | Two rules, ten thousand steps of scribble, then a highway |
| Life | Conway's B3/S23, reseeded whenever it settles |

Nothing there is a picture. Each is a rule short enough to state in a sentence,
and what you see is what the rule does.

Run `alloy-backdrop --once | less` for the panel in a window, or
`alloy-drift --pattern life --no-legend` for one of the automata in a terminal.
`alloy-drift --help` lists the rest.