# Changing Masters doesn't correspond with correct selection in Layers Palette **URL:** \ **Category:** Glyphs\ **Created:** [May 17, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457 "2016-05-17T14:55:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![oneweioranother](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/oneweioranother/32/273_2.png) [@oneweioranother](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/oneweioranother)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/1 "2016-05-17T14:55:47Z")
See this video [http://quick.as/2yG5TpPJk](http://quick.as/2yG5TpPJk) I’m clicking around the buttons at the top but it jumps around and is not correct. It’s the same if I use Alt+[0…9] ---
**Author:** ![GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/georgseifert/32/259_2.png) [@GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/GeorgSeifert)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/2 "2016-05-17T15:47:21Z")
Can you send me the file? ---
**Author:** ![oneweioranother](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/oneweioranother/32/273_2.png) [@oneweioranother](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/oneweioranother)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/3 "2016-05-17T15:58:38Z")
sent ---
**Author:** ![TimAhrens](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/timahrens/32/4309_2.png) [@TimAhrens](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/TimAhrens)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/4 "2016-05-17T19:00:52Z")
Related to master switching: I’d request that Cmd+1 always activated the first master, no matter which layer I might have previously selected manually. If I want to switch between layers in a non-synchronized way then I use the layers palette but if I use Cmd+1 I simply want to switch to that master (same for Cmd+2 etc, of course). ---
**Author:** ![GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/georgseifert/32/259_2.png) [@GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/GeorgSeifert)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/5 "2016-05-17T20:33:49Z")
About the original problem. I could not reproduce it. Does it still happen if you save, close and reopen the file? About the manually set masters. That would it make very difficult to compare different master next to each other. ---
**Author:** ![TimAhrens](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/timahrens/32/4309_2.png) [@TimAhrens](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/TimAhrens)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/6 "2016-05-18T07:07:51Z")
> [@GeorgSeifert](#): > > That would it make very difficult to compare different master next to each other. Can you explain? How does one compare different masters next to each other? Why would that become more difficult? ---
**Author:** ![oneweioranother](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/oneweioranother/32/273_2.png) [@oneweioranother](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/oneweioranother)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/7 "2016-05-18T08:15:11Z")
It doesn’t happen anymore now when I reopened the file today ---
**Author:** ![GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/georgseifert/32/259_2.png) [@GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/GeorgSeifert)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/8 "2016-05-18T08:25:11Z")
> [@TimAhrens](#): > > Can you explain? How does one compare different masters next to each other? Why would that become more difficult? You could type the same glyph several times and then assign a master to some of them. Then you can switch the remaining glyphs by cmd+1… ---
**Author:** ![TimAhrens](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/timahrens/32/4309_2.png) [@TimAhrens](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/TimAhrens)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/9 "2016-05-18T08:37:18Z")
> [@GeorgSeifert](#): > > You could type the same glyph several times and then assign a master to some of them. Then you can switch the remaining glyphs by cmd+1. Why would you want to switch the remaining glyphs? ---
**Author:** ![GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/georgseifert/32/259_2.png) [@GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/GeorgSeifert)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/10 "2016-05-18T12:30:20Z")
E.g., if you what to compare a brace layer to the masters. ---
**Author:** ![TimAhrens](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/timahrens/32/4309_2.png) [@TimAhrens](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/TimAhrens)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/11 "2016-05-20T08:27:35Z")
> [@GeorgSeifert](#): > > if you what to compare a brace layer to the masters If you what to compare a brace layer to the masters you don’t need Cmd+1, do you? Sorry, I still don’t see a realistic scenario in which the current behaviour is better, and I see a lot of uses in which it would be be better to always make Cmd+1 switch to the first master. ---
**Author:** ![Ginjam](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/ginjam/32/29831_2.png) [@Ginjam](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/Ginjam)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/12 "2016-05-21T03:06:33Z")
Just to say, I’ve had the same non-syncing Master/Layer selection happening. When I go back to the first Master and top layer they sync up again but often go out of sync. ---
**Author:** ![FlorianPircher](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/florianpircher/32/30457_2.png) [@FlorianPircher](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/FlorianPircher)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/changing-masters-doesnt-correspond-with-correct-selection-in-layers-palette/4457/13 "2026-09-30T18:30:19Z")
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