GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 756970
Gnome terminal copy and paste could use IBM CUA
Last modified: 2021-06-10 21:01:27 UTC
the current copy (ctrl-shift-c) and paste (ctrl-shift-v) conflicts with keybindings in firefox and chrome. Using the same shortcuts will cause CSS editors to open,etc. This essentially means that I have to use different keybindings across different pieces of software . However the IBM CUA bindings - ctrl-insert and shift-insert is universally honored. On some laptops, the insert key is a dual function key - using the Fn key to switch between printscreen and insert. So the IBM CUA can still be used there.
I do understand your pain, I also often open firebug accidentally. The problem boils down to two things: - The standard Ctrl+C Ctrl+V combos can't be used because we need to forward them to the apps. (As opposed to Mac where Ctrl+anything is forwarded to the app, and Cmd+{C,V} do the copy-pasting.) I'm afraid there's nothing we could do here. - The total mess with two different copy-paste buffers: the primary (aka. selection - what you highlight is automatically placed here, this is the older method) and the clipboard (the newer one used by modern desktop apps for Ctrl+C Ctrl+V pasting). Shift-insert is traditionally used for pasting the primary selection (e.g. in xterm), where you request that it should paste the clipboard. I would really miss the current shift-insert functionality if we changed it to pasting the clipboard. However, I tend to believe that consistency in the whole Gnome environment should be the most important, and it seems to match the behavior you request. Maybe changing the default, and have some hidden setting to revert to the current behavior would be the best? It's also unclear to me why certain hotkeys are handled hardcoded in vte, some others are configurable in (and are handled by? (not sure)) g-t.
@egmont - thanks for replying. really appreciate your thought. Yes - I have been long jealous of OSX with its consistent copy paste behavior and I have been hoping for Wayland (and its wl_data_offer events) to finally get us to promised land. Honestly, I do not mind any key combination as long as it is *consistent*.
(In reply to sandeep from comment #2) > Honestly, I do not mind any key > combination as long as it is *consistent*. Well, I heard some people saying (haven't verified) that if you change your gnome-terminal copy/paste shortcuts to ctrl-c/v then you can still send these keycombos to apps with shift-ctrl-c/v. Not sure if it's good for you :)
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