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 @lemmyng@lemmy.ca I now know about gpaste and use that to sync primary and selection both ways.

    • @anamethatisnt@lemmy.worldOP
      5•4 months ago

      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.

      • noughtnaut
        3•4 months ago

        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).

  • Anarch157a
    4•4 months ago

    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.

  • lemmyngEnglish
    4•4 months ago

    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.

    • @anamethatisnt@lemmy.worldOP
      1•4 months ago

      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.

      • lemmyngEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        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.

  • Max-P
    1•4 months ago

    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.

  • Strit
    1•4 months ago

    I can’t see anything wrong with that. Unless a cli application uses the same shortcut for something.