In Athens, or at least the latest Beta (2025.2), toggling the layout (ctrl + L) doesn’t work when no element is selected, after clearing a selection.
For example, if I have a textfield selected in a Frame (artboard), and then click in the empty to deselect it, trying to toggle the Layout of the Frame doesn’t work anymore.
In older versions, it used to remember what Artboard I was working in, even if I had nothing selected, so I could toggle the Layout.
(Although, I like that you won’t select a Frame if it’s top-level in a page when clicking inside it’s emptyness, like Artboards did before)
I guess that now that any Frame can have a Layout it’s kinda confusing.
Side question, among confusing things, how do we now name these:
A top-level Frame in a page? Artboards still? There are Frames, but they have little specials features like the selection thing.
Frame Layout and Frame Layout? I know one is a ‘Stack Layout’, but it seems to not always be used. Is the other one like a ‘Layout Guides’. It’s currently named the same in the UI.
Regarding the issue with showing/hiding the Layout/Grid, I can see the difference in 101 vs Athens, and I’m filing this internally so our Product team and engineers can take a look at it. Thanks for reporting!
About the naming, we now call top-level frames at the containers previously known as Artboards. The Layout grids, on the other side, are the ones you change with ctrl+L.
This is such a massive papercut that I experience dozens of times each day, its not even funny anymore.
Scenario 1: You press CTRL+G, nothing happens. Oh yeah, I have to CMD+Click to select the artboard first, great.
Scenario 2: I have selected a stack and want to arrange it on the grid, so I press CTRL+G to turn on the layout. It now shows me the Layout of the stack, which is absolutely useless 99% of the time.
It’s nuts that this is the default behaviour. It was perfect before the latest updates, and it still works in Figma like this. Just fix it. Add a menu shortcut to Show/Hide all Layouts at once.
“Filing this internally” also means “It’s never gonna happen”.
I agree and appreciate you flagging this. It’s something we plan to address in the future, though I can’t say exactly when. I’ll keep you posted as soon as I know more.
I know one is a ‘Stack Layout’, but it seems to not always be used. Is the other one like a ‘Layout Guides’. It’s currently named the same in the UI.
