Fullscreen mode

Fullscreen mode gives Kiro CLI a dedicated terminal screen with its own scrollable conversation view. Your existing terminal scrollback remains available when you return to inline mode.

Type /fullscreen to enter. Type /fullscreen again to leave.

By default, Kiro renders inline with your shell history. Fullscreen mode is useful for longer sessions because it separates the conversation from that history and provides application-managed scrolling.

In fullscreen mode:

• Your conversation scrolls independently from your shell history.
• You can use the mouse, touchpad, or keyboard to browse earlier messages.
• New messages remain available while you are scrolled up.
• Messages produced in fullscreen are added to the inline transcript when you leave.

/fullscreen

A brief notification confirms the switch. The same command toggles you back:

There is no keyboard shortcut for switching modes. Use /fullscreen to enter or leave fullscreen.

Switching modes does not reset the conversation or start a new session.

The /fullscreen command changes only the current session. To start future interactive TUI sessions in fullscreen:

1. Type /settings.
2. Open Display.
3. Turn on Start fullscreen.

The preference takes effect on your next interactive TUI launch. Turn it off from the same settings row to start future sessions inline again. You can still use /fullscreen at any time to change the current session without changing the saved preference.

In fullscreen, you can scroll through the conversation using your mouse or keyboard.

When the prompt contains text, Home moves the cursor to the beginning of the input. End still returns to the latest content while you are scrolled up; at the latest content, it moves the cursor to the end of the input.

You can also use your mouse wheel or touchpad. When you scroll up, a control appears above the prompt showing how many new messages arrived. Click it or press End to return to the latest content.

The view follows incoming content while you are at the bottom. If you scroll up, Kiro keeps your position until you return to the latest content.

Tool calls show a preview when their output is long. You can reveal more output in either of these ways:

• Press Ctrl+O to expand or collapse the 20 most recent tool outputs.
• Click the toggle text below a tool call to expand or collapse that output individually.

Fullscreen mode captures mouse events for scrolling and selection. Click and drag across text to copy the selected text to your clipboard. Kiro displays a confirmation after copying.

You can also use:

• /copy to copy the last assistant response
• /transcript to open the full conversation in your configured pager
• /transcript save <path> to save the conversation to a file

You can switch during a session without losing conversation context.

Fullscreen uses your terminal's alternate screen buffer. If it does not render correctly:

• Confirm that your terminal or terminal multiplexer supports the alternate screen.

• If you use tmux, check whether your configuration disables its alternate-screen option. To enable it globally, add the following line to ~/.tmux.conf:

  set -g alternate-screen on
  

  Then start a new tmux server or reload the configuration.

• Try running Kiro directly in your terminal to determine whether a multiplexer configuration is interfering.

Mouse scrolling requires terminal mouse reporting. If it does not work:

• Confirm that Kiro shows the Entered fullscreen notification.
• Check whether your terminal or multiplexer has mouse reporting disabled.

Click and drag to copy text using Kiro's fullscreen selection. If your terminal does not support that interaction, use /copy or /transcript.