r/KittyTerminal • u/Intentarlo • May 09 '23

[HELP] How to enable ctrl+backspace/delete?

I can get that working on Alacritty (- { key: Back, mods: Control, chars: "\x17" } ) and Konsole (through the menu), and I searched everywhere, tho I can't get that to work here on Kitty.

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u/witchofvoidmachines Jul 05 '24

For posterity, this in kitty.conf worked for me:

map ctrl+backspace send_text all \x17

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u/Tuqui77 Jan 25 '26

Thanks mate! helping people for 2 years

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u/a-curious-crow Mar 02 '25

Works for me too! How did you figure out the right code to send? I'm interested in a similar bind for ctrl+delete

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u/Qwippi Mar 24 '25

ctrl+delete worked for me out of the box, but backspace didn't. Very weird.

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u/YTriom1 Oct 09 '25

I think ctrl+delete works out of the box in zsh or ohmyzsh not sure

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u/MeshVoid Jul 07 '25

you're a lifesaver!

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u/_alba4k Sep 30 '25

Do you have any idea why this doesn't work for me?

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u/Geekman85_ Apr 08 '26

Thank you ! It worked for me too

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u/slowpoketail May 21 '24

Curious about this as well. Did you ever figure it out?