Complete Alacritty keyboard shortcuts reference — 19 shortcuts across 2 categories. Quick reference cheat sheet for Windows & Mac.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + Shift + C | Copy |
| Ctrl + Shift + V | Paste |
| Ctrl + Shift + F | Search forward |
| Ctrl + Shift + B | Search backward |
| Ctrl + Shift + N | New window |
| Ctrl + = | Increase font size |
| Ctrl + - | Decrease font size |
| Ctrl + 0 | Reset font size |
| F11 | Toggle fullscreen |
| Shift + PageUp | Scroll page up |
| Shift + PageDown | Scroll page down |
| Shift + Home | Scroll to top |
| Shift + End | Scroll to bottom |
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + Shift + Space | Toggle Vi mode |
| V | Start selection |
| Y | Copy selection |
| G | Scrollback top/bottom |
| I | Leave Vi mode |
| Esc | Clear selection |
The most essential Alacritty shortcuts are: Ctrl + Shift + C (Copy), Ctrl + Shift + V (Paste), Ctrl + Shift + F (Search forward). These cover the most frequent actions and can significantly speed up your workflow.
Alacritty has 19 keyboard shortcuts across 2 categories on shortcut-tools.com.
Simply press the key combination while Alacritty is focused. Most shortcuts work immediately. On Mac, replace Ctrl with Cmd and Alt with Option for most shortcuts.
The Alacritty shortcut for copy is Ctrl + Shift + C.
Alacritty includes 13 General shortcuts, including Ctrl + Shift + C (Copy) and Ctrl + Shift + V (Paste). See the full list in the General section above.
Print the Alacritty cheat sheet and keep it next to your keyboard for the first week, then switch to active recall: open Shortcut Speedrun and practice Alacritty shortcuts against the clock until they're automatic.
Yes — use My Stack to combine Alacritty shortcuts with any other platform on this site into one printable reference, which is useful if your daily workflow spans several tools.
Most do not — the underlying key is the same, but Alacritty (like most software) maps Ctrl on Windows/Linux to Cmd on Mac for standard operations. Where a shortcut is platform-specific, this page notes the Mac variant next to the Windows one.
Open your assistant with this page preloaded as the source — great for follow-up questions like "which of these work in other apps?"