3.3 Keyboard Setup

Inkscape is unusually rich in keyboard shortcuts. A complete chart of all keyboard and mouse shortcuts (you can view it in the browser by choosing the Keys and Mouse Reference command in the Help menu) contains more than 460 entries.

Normally, keyboard shortcuts don’t require any setup: They just work. Sometimes, however, you may want to change some of these shortcuts or add new ones, perhaps because you’re used to a different keyboard layout from another program, or simply because your work habits are not adequately covered by the existing shortcuts.

Most (although currently not all) of Inkscape’s keyboard shortcuts can be configured by the user. You can also assign a shortcut to any of the commands that you see in the menus, ...

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