In most programs these days, you press Ctrl+C to copy to the clipboard.
In GNOME Terminal on Linux it's Ctrl+Shift+C and in PuTTY on Windows it happens as soon as you select some text.
This was confusing me until I found a great feature of GNOME Terminal:
Now Ctrl+C will act as copy if some text is selected, but it still acts as the interrupt key to stop a program if there's nothing selected.
In GNOME Terminal on Linux it's Ctrl+Shift+C and in PuTTY on Windows it happens as soon as you select some text.
This was confusing me until I found a great feature of GNOME Terminal:
- Click on the Edit menu, then on Keyboard Shortcuts...
- Click on Copy, then type Ctrl+C
Now Ctrl+C will act as copy if some text is selected, but it still acts as the interrupt key to stop a program if there's nothing selected.
The GNOME Edit Keyboard Shortcuts menu
Ctrl+C with something highlighted
Ctrl+C with nothing highlighted
This seems to be a good idea. Anyway, selecting text in Gnome-Terminal still sucks. Why isn't there no possibility to select (or copy) everything from the terminal ?
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