On Linux, Control-C and Control-V don't work for copying and pasting in terminals. The Control modifier is used for its original purpose of inserting control codes. Instead, terminal apps require an extra Shift modifier, like Control+Shift+C. But what if there were hidden shortcut combos for copy and paste
  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Centre click is a godsend though. I recently had to start using Windows again and I keep instinctively hitting it.

  • Chris@feddit.ukEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I found this handy snippet to enable these keys in GTK 2 and 3 (not sure of the equivalent for GTK 4 but I guess that’s the one which has been updated anyway): https://forum.colemak.com/topic/1438-dreymars-big-bag-of-keyboard-tricks-linuxxkb-files-included/#p10012

    Unfortunately I’ve found this whilst I’m not at the right computer so I haven’t been able to test them.

    Edit: I tested this and it doesn’t appear to have helped.

  • crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Control+C is used to kill a process in the terminal and that shouldn’t be overwritten. If it is, you’d have to create a totally separate key binding to kill a process. Seems unnecessarily complex when Control+Shift+C works just fine.

    • hallettj@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      1 month ago

      The article doesn’t suggest using Control+C. It talks about dedicated copy and paste key codes, and you can program your keyboard to map those codes to whatever keys you like. They suggest Fn+C.

    • Overspark@feddit.nl
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      1 month ago

      Kitty has a setting that makes Ctrl-C copy text, but only if you’ve selected something. If you haven’t it does a regular break. Best of both worlds!

        • Overspark@feddit.nl
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          1 month ago

          Had to look it up for you. I use (in kitty.conf):

          map ctrl+c copy_and_clear_or_interrupt
map ctrl+v paste_from_clipboard

          Obviously you only need the first one for the copy bit but having paste as well is nice.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Honestly, this is a nice feature of macOS (or at least iTerm 2; I don’t use the official terminal). I know CTRL-C is used to kill processes and we all have that muscle memory but I usually try to change that on my personal Linux installs because I’ve hit it by mistake before.

    I used to use CTRL+INSERT for copy and SHIFT+INSERT for paste but there’s usually no insert key on laptops or even small keyboards. It’s probably time to just adapt.