So, being frustrated with a firefox addons copy not showing up with shift+ins in gnome-terminal I decided to switch gnome-terminal paste shortcut to shift+ins.
Are there any known bugs with doing this? I’ve only done some quick tests and seem to always get the clipboard info I’m expecting.
edit: Thanks to @[email protected] I now know about gpaste and use that to sync primary and selection both ways.
@anamethatisnt Lone voice in the crowd : Why?
Muscle memory!
As soon as I work in a terminal I use shift+ins instinctively, most programs still send the copy to both buffers if they have a “copy” button/function but some now only send to primary and you get some old text selection thrown into your terminal instead of the command the program helpfully copied for you.Shift/Ctrl+Ins/Del unite! 😁 And yes, muscle memory is a powerful drug. Been using it since before Windows came along, kept using it after. Especially useful after I switched to Dvorak (and yes, I know of Colemak).
Bugs? No, works as intended. But you might want to consider a clipboard manager instead, so that you can sync the clipboard to the selection buffer and vice versa.
I’ve tried finding a manager for this, Pano allows me to sync primary to selection but not selection to primary but I haven’t found one that works the other way around. I’m currently running Fedora 38 with Gnome 44.
While the shift+ins helps with pasting the wrong stuff it would be even better if I could get middle-click to sync up too.Gpaste can do it. The out of the box experience is a bit hit and miss, but it’s plenty configurable and reliable once set up to your liking.
Kudos! Thanks a lot! gnome-terminal reverted to ctrl+shift+v and shift+ins and middle-click works as expected!
Shift+Ins was the default paste on Windows 3.0, before Apple sued Microsoft for copying their OS (back in then it was still called just “System”), so MS added Ctrl+C for Windows 3.1, but the old one still work.
Same thing for Xorg. Ctrl+Ins for copy, Ctrl+Del for paste and Ctrl+Ins for paste.
Are you calling me old? :(
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I can’t see anything wrong with that. Unless a cli application uses the same shortcut for something.
I’m over here just wishing tmux copy and paste made any fucking sense.
They wouldn’t let you change the shortcut if changing the shortcut didn’t work. You can even do Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V if you want, but then ^C and ^V wouldn’t be passed to the terminal anymore. The shortcuts take priority.
