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Keybinds

Hyprland-based NixOS configuration with three swappable QuickShell-based shells. Use Super+Shift+W to switch between them at runtime.

The configuration is layered: a common set is sourced by every shell, then each shell adds its own bindings on top.

How to read the tables

Notation	Meaning
Super	Windows/Meta key
Super+Shift, X	hold Super+Shift, press X
bind	normal single-press binding
bindl	also fires when the session is locked
binde	repeats while held (e.g. resize, workspace cycle)
bindr	fires on release (used for qs ... kill)
bindm	mouse binding (movewindow / resizewindow)
$kbX	named variable defined in dots/hypr/variables.conf

Source files in the repository:

• Linux/dots/hypr/variables.conf - keybind variable definitions
• Linux/dots/hypr/hyprland/keybinds.conf - base Hyprland keybinds
• Linux/dots/hypr/shell-common-keybinds.conf - shared shell entrypoints
• Linux/dots/hypr/shell-workspace-keybinds.conf - workspace group navigation
• Linux/dots/hypr/{caelestia,noctalia,end4}/keybinds.conf - per-shell
• Linux/dots/hypr/{caelestia,noctalia}/launcher.conf - Super long-press launcher

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Common (all shells)

These keybinds are sourced by all three shells (caelestia, noctalia, end4) via source = $hypr/shell-common-keybinds.conf and shell-workspace-keybinds.conf, plus the base Hyprland config in hyprland/keybinds.conf.

Shell selector

Keys	Action
Super+Shift+W	Toggle QuickShell-based shell selector (switch between caelestia / noctalia / end4)

Application launchers

Keys	Action
Super+Return	Terminal
Super+Shift+F	Zen Browser
Super+Shift+C	Cursor IDE
Super+Shift+V	VS Code
Super+Shift+D	DataGrip
Super+Shift+A	Antigravity (Gemini CLI)
Super+Shift+Q	AmneziaVPN
Super+Shift, v2rayN	v2rayN
Super+Shift+B	Vesktop (Discord)
Super+Shift+I	Spotify (toggle)
Super+Shift+T	Telegram
Ctrl+Shift+Escape	btop
Super+E	File explorer
Super+Alt+E	File explorer (duplicate keybind)
Ctrl+Alt+V	pavucontrol (audio mixer)

Screenshots & screen recording

Keys	Action
Super+S	Screenshot whole screen
Super+Shift+S	Screenshot region
Super+Shift+Alt+S	Screenshot + edit
Super+C	Color picker (hyprpicker -a)
Super+R	Toggle screen recording

Workspaces

Keys	Action
Super+1 … Super+0	Jump to workspace 1–10
Super+Shift+1 … Super+Shift+0	Move active window to workspace 1–10
Ctrl+Super+1 … Ctrl+Super+0	Jump to workspace group 1–10
Ctrl+Super+Alt+1 … Ctrl+Super+Alt+0	Move active window to workspace group 1–10
Ctrl+Super+Right	Next workspace
Ctrl+Super+Left	Previous workspace
Super+Tab	Toggle special workspace
Super+Page_Up / Super+Page_Down	Previous / next workspace (repeats)
Ctrl+Super+ScrollUp/Down	Move ±10 workspaces
Super+Alt+Page_Up/Down	Move window ±1 workspace
Ctrl+Super+Shift+Right/Left	Move window ±1 workspace
Ctrl+Super+Shift+Up	Move window to special:special
Ctrl+Super+Shift+Down	Move window to current ws
Super+Alt+S	Move window to special:special

Special workspaces (toggled overlays)

Keys	Action
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Escape	System monitor overlay
Super+M	Music overlay
Super+D	Communication overlay
Super+T	Todo overlay

Window operations

Keys	Action
Super+Q	Close active window (delegates to close-active.sh)
Super+Space	Toggle floating
Super+P	Pin window
Ctrl+Shift+Return	Fullscreen
Super+Shift+Return	Bordered fullscreen
Super+Z (held)	Move window with mouse
Super+X (held)	Resize window with mouse
Super+LMB (held)	Move window with mouse (mouse:272)
Super+RMB (held)	Resize window with mouse (mouse:273)
Super+Alt+Backslash	Picture-in-Picture
Ctrl+Super+Backslash	Center window
Ctrl+Super+Alt+Backslash	Resize to 55%×70% and center
Super+Left/Right/Up/Down	Focus window in direction
Super+Shift+Left/Right/Up/Down	Move window in direction
Super+Minus / Super+Equal	Resize horizontally ∓10%
Super+Shift+Minus / Super+Shift+Equal	Resize vertically ∓10%
Super+Alt+Left/Right/Up/Down	Resize active window

Window groups (tabbed)

Keys	Action
Super+Comma	Toggle group
Super+U	Ungroup
Alt+Tab (held)	Cycle next in group
Shift+Alt+Tab (held)	Cycle previous in group
Ctrl+Alt+Tab (held)	Switch to next group member
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Tab (held)	Switch to previous group member
Super+Shift+Comma	Lock active group

Audio & media (hardware keys)

Keys	Action
XF86AudioMute	Toggle sink mute
XF86AudioMicMute	Toggle source mute
Super+Shift+M	Toggle sink mute
XF86AudioRaiseVolume (held)	Raise volume
XF86AudioLowerVolume (held)	Lower volume

Media play/pause/next/prev keybinds are shell-specific - see the per-shell sections below, because each shell wires its own IPC layer.

System

Keys	Action
Super+Shift+L	Suspend then hibernate
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+V	Paste last clipboard entry via ydotool (workaround)

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Caelestia

Bindings specific to caelestia-shell, layered on top of Common. Wired through caelestia's global, caelestia:* dispatchers and CLI helpers.

Source: Linux/dots/hypr/caelestia/keybinds.conf, Linux/dots/hypr/caelestia/launcher.conf.

Launcher (Super long-press)

Caelestia opens its launcher when you press and hold Super alone. A short tap is interpreted as a modifier (cancelled by any other key).

Trigger	Action
Super (immediate)	Open launcher (caelestia:launcher)
Super + any other key / mouse	Cancel launcher (caelestia:launcherInterrupt)

Interrupt is wired for: catchall keys, all mouse buttons (mouse:272–mouse:277), and scroll up/down.

Shell panels

Keys	Action
Ctrl+Alt+Delete	Session menu (caelestia:session)
Super+N	Show / hide sidebar (caelestia:sidebar)
Ctrl+Alt+C	Clear notifications (caelestia:clearNotifs)
Super+K	Show all panels (caelestia:showall)
Super+L	Lock screen (caelestia:lock)
Super+Alt+L	Restore lock state from last session

Brightness

Keys	Action
XF86MonBrightnessUp	Brightness up
XF86MonBrightnessDown	Brightness down

Media

Keys	Action
Ctrl+Super+Space	Play / pause (caelestia:mediaToggle)
XF86AudioPlay / XF86AudioPause	Play / pause
Ctrl+Super+Equal	Next track (caelestia:mediaNext)
XF86AudioNext	Next track
Ctrl+Super+Minus	Previous track (caelestia:mediaPrev)
XF86AudioPrev	Previous track
XF86AudioStop	Stop

Caelestia helpers

Keys	Action
Ctrl+Super+Shift+R (release)	Kill caelestia shell
Ctrl+Super+Alt+R (release)	Restart caelestia shell
Super+Alt+R	Start screen recording (caelestia record -s)
Ctrl+Alt+R	Start screen recording (default)
Super+Shift+Alt+R	Caelestia record helper (-r)

Window-specific

Keys	Action
Super+Alt+Backslash (from $kbWindowPip)	Resize active window to PiP

Clipboard & emoji

Keys	Action
Super+V	Toggle caelestia clipboard (pkill fuzzel first)
Super+Alt+V	Caelestia clipboard with -d (delete entries)
Super+Period	Caelestia emoji picker (-p)

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Noctalia

Bindings specific to noctalia-shell, layered on top of Common. Wired through noctalia-shell ipc call <topic> <method>.

Source: Linux/dots/hypr/noctalia/keybinds.conf, Linux/dots/hypr/noctalia/launcher.conf, Linux/dots/hypr/scripts/noctalia-launcher.sh.

Launcher (Super long-press)

Noctalia opens its launcher through a press/release dance on Super alone, wired via noctalia-launcher.sh. The script tracks press, release, and any interrupting input.

Trigger	Action
Super press	noctalia-launcher.sh press (arms launcher)
Super release	noctalia-launcher.sh release (opens launcher if no interrupt)
Super + any other key / mouse	noctalia-launcher.sh interrupt (cancels)

Interrupt is wired for: catchall keys, all mouse buttons (mouse:272–mouse:277), and scroll up/down.

Shell panels

Keys	Action
Ctrl+Alt+Delete	Session menu toggle
Super+N	Control center toggle
Ctrl+Alt+C	Clear notifications
Super+K	Settings toggle
Super+L	Lock screen
Super+Alt+L	Restore lock state from last session

Brightness

Keys	Action
XF86MonBrightnessUp	Brightness increase
XF86MonBrightnessDown	Brightness decrease

Media

Keys	Action
Ctrl+Super+Space	Play / pause
XF86AudioPlay / XF86AudioPause	Play / pause
Ctrl+Super+Equal	Next track
XF86AudioNext	Next track
Ctrl+Super+Minus	Previous track
XF86AudioPrev	Previous track
XF86AudioStop	Stop

Recording

Keys	Action
Super+R	Toggle screen recording (record-toggle.sh)

Clipboard & emoji

Keys	Action
Super+V	Noctalia clipboard launcher
Super+Alt+V	Noctalia clipboard launcher (same; placeholder for delete)
Super+Period	Noctalia emoji launcher

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End4 (Illogical Impulse)

Bindings specific to end-4 / Illogical Impulse, layered on top of Common. The end4 profile uses upstream end-4 dotfiles patched by Linux/NixOS/home/end4/patches/hypr.nix and overlays MySetup-specific keybinds from Linux/dots/hypr/end4/keybinds.conf.

Sources: Linux/dots/hypr/end4/keybinds.conf, upstream end-4/dots-hyprland.

Launcher

End4 ships its own QuickShell launcher tied to Super long-press via upstream end-4/dots-hyprland. MySetup leaves the upstream wiring alone - no per-shell launcher.conf is needed (Linux/dots/hypr/end4/launcher.conf is intentionally empty; the active $hypr/shell-launcher.conf symlink points to the upstream config while end4 is active).

Trigger	Action
Super long-press	Open end4 launcher (handled by upstream IPC)

MySetup overrides

Keys	Action
Ctrl+Super+Alt+Slash	Open this keybinds source in editor (xdg-open .../mysetup/keybinds.conf)

Unbound upstream defaults

These upstream end-4 bindings are explicitly cleared before sourcing the shared MySetup set, to avoid double-binds and conflicts:

Cleared
Super+Return
Super+E
Super+Shift+C
Super+Shift+A
Super+Shift+N
Super+Shift+T
Super+Shift+B
Ctrl+Shift+Escape
Super+S
Super+Shift+S
Super+C
Super+F
Super+X
Super+Ctrl+Space

After clearing, end4 sources shell-common-keybinds.conf and shell-workspace-keybinds.conf - see the Common section above for the resulting set.

Workspaces (end4 extras)

Keys	Action
$kbNextWs (Ctrl+Super+Right)	Next workspace
$kbPrevWs (Ctrl+Super+Left)	Previous workspace

Window operations (end4 extras)

Keys	Action
$kbMoveWindow (Super+Z, held)	Move window
$kbResizeWindow (Super+X, held)	Resize window
$kbCloseWindow (Super+Q)	Close active window
$kbToggleWindowFloating (Super+Space)	Toggle floating
$kbPinWindow (Super+P)	Pin window
$kbWindowFullscreen (Ctrl+Shift+Return)	Fullscreen
Super+Ctrl+Return	Fullscreen (extra alias)
$kbWindowBorderedFullscreen (Super+Shift+Return)	Bordered fullscreen

Notes

• All other end-4 panels, AI sidebar, anime corner, and shell-internal shortcuts come from the upstream end-4/dots-hyprland config. They are not duplicated here - refer to the upstream wiki for shell-internal bindings: https://end-4.github.io/dots-hyprland-wiki/.
• MySetup keeps end4 mutable runtime settings under ~/.config/illogical-impulse, so shell-side JSON changes can persist without a rebuild.