"Of all the available terminal emulators..." Question

brent

I'm been loyal to gnome-terminal since I started using Solus. Use it several times a day, every day. But the absence of a keyboard paste function (CTRL+V) has been driving me crazy as of lately. Without me having to install/uninstall all available terminal emulators, does anyone know of a terminal emulator that allows for the keyboard paste function? Or more keyboard commands?
edit: this bizarrely published in code font the first time even though no code brackets were inserted...

Staudey

Just use CTRL+SHIFT+C to copy and CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste?

brent

Staudey That worked.

After years of reading forum posts about every topic imaginable I never knew about the extra (SHFT) key..I'm still learning. Thank you. Paint me sheepish.

MODS: SOLVED

kyrios

brent perhaps you should read the user manuals or the help pages rather than forums for getting this kind of information 😉

synth-ruiner

Shift+Insert works too! Ctrl+Shift+V feels more natural to me though...

brent

synth-ruiner -that's the weird thing. Ctrl+C and ctrl+V work for everything in Solus so naturally I always thought the gnome-terminal was defective....adding a 3rd key just for terminal cut/paste never occured to me but like I said---"L" For Learning🙂---hell throwing that 3rd shift key into the command never occured to me in a lifetime because I never needed to do it.
but this makes gnome-terminal much easier when I am batching commands

JoshStrobl

The reason Ctrl+C isn't used is because that sends SIGINT to the process running there to kill it.

brent

JoshStrobl I wasn't thinking about SIGINT at all there, although I know what it is and what the other signals are and do. so thank you for the explanation. @DataDrake said recently in a thread, in essence, an entire lifetime is not enough to even understand a subsection of all the (linux?) moving parts of an OS and I am living proof...🙂

DataDrake

kyrios

synth-ruiner

you can also (for example) drag a file from Nautilus to your terminal and it'll paste the file path. works in alacritty at least, but I'm assuming it works for others too.

brent

I am low-hanging fruit for the cheap shots today. I'm all about making it easy.🙂

TraceyC

I usually change the keybinds in the terminal clients within their UIs. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V for copy & paste, Ctrl-Shift-C for SIGINT. I've done this in tilix and konsole. Many terminal clients allow you to change their specific keybinds within their UI.

brent

TraceyC Thank you @yin&yang. Go with it, I like the avatar.. Keybinds, and changing them, are something I've never done and always wanted to try. My fear is not liking my keybinds after a while, then forgetting how to undo them. Linux and note-taking are sadly anathema in my world. Appreciate the input and that's something I will try someday after a lot of reading.

elfprince

brent I leave keybinds alone as well. 😂

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Middle mouse click to paste as well

brent

LunarResident elfprince feel like I live in a cocoon! didn't even know this was a thang.
I could get easily addicted to pasting this way. Thank you.

elfprince

Almost always using middle-mouse-click to paste in terminal, and elsewhere. Too easy! 😁