Keyboard Shortcuts

Here is a list of some of the keyboard sortcuts you currently have at your disposal. These are the defaults. There is a way to customize these, but it is currently not intuitive. Basically you need to edit the accelrc file in your synfig settings directory.

Keystroke	Description
<Control>-x	Cut currently selected layer(s) and put them in clipboard
<Control>-c	Copy currently selected layer(s) and put them in the clipboard
<Control>-p	Paste the contents of the clipboard above the currently selected layer
<Control>-z	Undo
<Control>-r	Redo
<Control>-a	Select all ducks
<Control>-d	Deselect all layers
<Control>-s	Save
<Control>-g	Toggle grid show
<Control>-o	Toggle onion skin
<Control>-l	Toggle grid snap
<Control>-i	Import image
<Control>-`	Toggle low/high-resolution (defaults to low resolution)
<Control>-0...9	Change the current rendering quality (lower is better, but 0==10)
<Alt>-1	Toggle display of "Position" ducks
<Alt>-2	Toggle display of "Vertex" ducks
<Alt>-3	Toggle display of "Tangent" ducks
<Alt>-4	Toggle display of "Radius" ducks
<Alt>-5	Toggle display of "Width" ducks (DEFAULTS TO OFF)
<Alt>-6	Toggle display of "Angle" ducks
<Control>-'-'	Zoom out of canvas (spacial zoom)
<Control>-'='	Zoom in on canvas (spacial zoom)
<Control>-<Shift>-z	Zoom canvas to 100% (spacial zoom)
<Control>-'_'	Zoom out of timeline (temporal zoom)
<Control>-'+'	Zoom in on timeline (temporal zoom)
<Control>-','	Move backward one frame
<Control>-'.'	Move forward one frame (be careful - can step past the end of an animation; fixed in svn r452)
<Control>-'<'	Move backward one second
<Control>-'>'	Move forward one second
<Control>-'['	Move backward to previous keyframe
<Control>-']'	Move forward to next keyframe
Home	Jump to beginning of timeline (broken; fixed in svn r451)
End	Jump to end of timeline (broken; fixed in svn r451)
<Control>-<Alt>-'('	Decrease 'amount' of selected layer
<Control>-<Alt>-')'	Increase 'amount' of selected layer
<Shift>-PgUp	Raise currently selected layers
<Shift>-PgDn	Lower currently selected layers
<Alt>-a	Select 'normal' tool
<Alt>-s	Select 'rotate' tool
<Alt>-d	Select 'scale' tool
<Alt>-b	Select 'bline' tool
<Alt>-f	Select 'fill' tool
<Alt>-e	Select 'eyedrop' tool
<Alt>-g	Select 'gradient' tool
<Alt>-z	Select 'zoom' tool
F8	Canvas Properties
F9	Render
F11	Preview
F12	Canvas Options (Grid size, etc.)
Escape	Stop (stop what? not sure...)
<Delete>	Deletes the currently selected canvas. (CAREFUL! There is currently a bug which makes this work in just about any context! ie: if you are editing a parameter and press the delete key, it will delete the layer! this can be easily undone, but just keep it in mind)