=============================== Mintty 3.4.0 keyboard shortcuts =============================== First published at 10/23/2020 on https://defkey.com/mintty-3-shortcuts mintty is a free and open source terminal emulator for Cygwin (an Unix-like environment for Windows). Its terminal emulation is aimed to be compatible with xterm. Mintty 3.4.0 has 69 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below. Scrollback and selection ------------------------ Shift + Up arrow / Down arrow Line up / down Shift + Page Up / Down Page up / down Shift + Home Top Shift + End Bottom Alt + F3 Search Shift + Left arrow Go to previous scroll marker (e.g. in prompt) Shift + Right arrow Go to next scroll marker (e.g. in prompt) Shift + Num 5 Enter keyboard selection mode In keyboard selecting mode, following shortcuts can be used: Alt Set rectangular selection Up arrow / Down arrow Modify selection Page Up / Down Scroll / Modify selection Home Scroll / Modify selection End Scroll / Modify selection Alt + Num 5 Restart rectangular selection Insert Copy selection and exit selection mode Enter Copy selection and exit selection mode Del Exit selection mode Esc Exit selection mode Copy and paste -------------- Ctrl + Insert Copy Shift + Insert Paste Ctrl + Shift + Insert Copy and paste Window ------ Alt + F2 New (clone window at current size) Shift + Alt + F2 New (clone window at configured size) Alt + F3 Search (in scrollback buffer) Alt + F4 Close Alt + F8 Reset Alt + F10 Default terminal size (rows / columns) Shift + Alt + F10 Default terminal size (rows / columns) and font size Alt + F11 Toggle full screen Alt + Enter Toggle full screen Shift + Alt + F11 Toggle full screen and zoom font Shift + Alt + Enter Toggle full screen and zoom font Alt + F12 Flip screen Alt + Space Window menu Ctrl + Tab Next visible window (as sorted by creation time) Ctrl + Shift + Tab Previous visible window (as sorted by creation time) Ctrl + Ctrl + Tab Next window (as sorted by creation time) Ctrl + Ctrl + Shift + Tab Previous window (as sorted by creation time) Ctrl + Alt + Left click + Move the mouse Move window Multi-monitor selection ----------------------- Alt + F2 (or user-defined "new" key as defined with option KeyFunctions) will only spawn a new window after F2 has been released. While the key is being held, the target monitor can be selected with a sequence of numeric keypad keys: Num 8 Navigate the target focus to the respective neighbour in the monitor grid Num 2 Navigate the target focus to the respective neighbour in the monitor grid Num 4 Navigate the target focus to the respective neighbour in the monitor grid Num 6 Navigate the target focus to the respective neighbour in the monitor grid Num 7 Combine two directions respectively Num 9 Combine two directions respectively Num 1 Combine two directions respectively Num 3 Combine two directions respectively Num 5 Set the target focus to the Windows "primary" monitor Num 0 Reset focus to the current monitor numDel Reset focus to the current monitor Note: Note that a heuristic algorithm is used, based on the size of the smallest monitor attached to the system, so the target may not always be selected as expected if multiple monitors of different size are available or monitors are not arranged in a regular grid. Font zoom --------- Ctrl + Num + Zoom font in Ctrl + Num - Zoom font out Ctrl + Shift + Num + Zoom font and window in Ctrl + Shift + Num - Zoom font and window out Ctrl + 0 Back to configured font size Ctrl + Shift + Letter shortcuts ------------------------------- Ctrl + Shift + A Select all Ctrl + Shift + C Copy Ctrl + Shift + V Paste Ctrl + Shift + N New Ctrl + Shift + H Search scrollback buffer Ctrl + Shift + W Close Ctrl + Shift + R Reset Ctrl + Shift + D Default terminal size (rows / columns) Ctrl + Shift + F Full screen (not zooming font despite Shift) Ctrl + Shift + S Flip screen Ctrl + Shift + O Toggle scrollbar Ctrl + Shift + P Cycle pointer styles Ctrl + Shift + T Cycle or tune transparency levels Ctrl + Shift + T cycles through transparency levels in steps, whenever the keys are released. Alternatively, while holding down Ctrl + Shift + T, the navigation keys on the numeric keypad can be used for further fine-tuning: Use up / down to increase / decrease, Page Up / Page Down for steps, Del / Insert for no / max transparency, End for highest prefonfigured transparency, Home for previous value. If OpaqueWhenFocused is set, opaqueness is temporarily disabled to provide visible feedback for the changes. Source: Mintty Last modified on(UTC): Friday, October 23, 2020 Defkey © All rights reserved.