Kitty keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Printable cheat sheet covering all 42 Kitty 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.
All shortcuts
- Ctrl+Shift+ArrowUp — Scroll line up
- Ctrl+Shift+ArrowDown — Scroll line down
- Ctrl+Shift+PageUp — Scroll page up
- Ctrl+Shift+PageDown — Scroll page down
- Ctrl+Shift+Home — Scroll to top
- Ctrl+Shift+End — Scroll to bottom
- Ctrl+Shift+Z — Previous shell prompt
- Ctrl+Shift+X — Next shell prompt
- Ctrl+Shift+H — Browse scrollback
- Ctrl+Shift+G — Browse last output
- Ctrl+Shift+Slash — Search scrollback
- Ctrl+Shift+T — New tab
- Ctrl+Shift+Q — Close tab
- Ctrl+Shift+ArrowRight — Next tab
- Ctrl+Shift+ArrowLeft — Previous tab
- Ctrl+Shift+L — Next layout
- Ctrl+Shift+Period — Move tab forward
- Ctrl+Shift+Comma — Move tab backward
- Ctrl+Shift+Enter — New window
- Ctrl+Shift+N — New OS window
- Ctrl+Shift+W — Close window
- Ctrl+Shift+R — Resize window
- Ctrl+Shift+BracketRight — Next window
- Ctrl+Shift+BracketLeft — Previous window
- Ctrl+Shift+F — Move window forward
- Ctrl+Shift+B — Move window backward
- Ctrl+Shift+F1 — Show help
- Ctrl+Shift+C — Copy to clipboard
- Ctrl+Shift+V — Paste from clipboard
- Ctrl+Shift+S — Paste from selection
- Ctrl+Shift+Equal — Increase font size
- Ctrl+Shift+Minus — Decrease font size
- Ctrl+Shift+Backspace — Restore font size
- Ctrl+Shift+F11 — Toggle fullscreen
- Ctrl+Shift+F10 — Toggle maximized
- Ctrl+Shift+U — Input Unicode
- Ctrl+Shift+E — Open URL
- Ctrl+Shift+Delete — Reset terminal
- Ctrl+Shift+F2 — Edit config
- Ctrl+Shift+F5 — Reload config
- Ctrl+Shift+F6 — Debug config
- Ctrl+Shift+Escape — Open shell
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