FAST keyboard shortcuts
Your hands never leave home row. Spatial navigation uses Vim directions, moving a window is the same key plus Shift, and every geometry change can be undone. These are the defaults — every one of them can be changed or removed in Settings.
FAST reads ⌃ as Control, ⌥ as Option, ⇧ as Shift, ⇥ as Tab and ↩ as Return. Every move follows the actual layout on screen: multi-zone spans are preserved, and there is no parallel set of hard-coded halves and quarters to memorise alongside them.
Move the focus
Vim directions: H left, J down, K up, L right.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌃⌥H | Focus the tile to the left |
| ⌃⌥J | Focus the tile below |
| ⌃⌥K | Focus the tile above |
| ⌃⌥L | Focus the tile to the right |
Move the window
Same directions, plus Shift — the window travels instead of the focus.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌃⌥⇧H | Move the focused window left |
| ⌃⌥⇧J | Move the focused window down |
| ⌃⌥⇧K | Move the focused window up |
| ⌃⌥⇧L | Move the focused window right |
Layouts, stacks and focus
Layout switching applies to the display under the pointer, wraps at either end of the list, and leaves every other display on its own layout.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌃⌥← | Previous layout on the display under the pointer |
| ⌃⌥→ | Next layout on the display under the pointer |
| ⌃⌥⇥ | Show the next window in the current zone |
| ⌃⌥↩ | Enter or leave Focus Mode for the focused window |
| ⌃⌥A | Arrange open windows into zones |
Undo
FAST keeps a 30-step history of geometry, assignment and stack changes.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌃⌥Z | Undo the last geometry-changing action |
Mouse
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| ⇧drag | Snap a window into the tile you drop it on |
Changing or removing a shortcut
Open Settings and pick the action you want to rebind. Assigning an empty combination removes the shortcut entirely, which is the right move if one of the defaults collides with something you already use — FAST will not fight another app for a key.
Beyond the keyboard
Every shortcut on this page maps to the same typed action that the Shortcuts app, Siri, the fast:// URL scheme and the bundled fastctl command-line tool execute. That is why Undo works no matter where a command came from.
Every window, exactly where it belongs.
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