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Software & hardware support => Newbie questions => Topic started by: biff123 on April 14, 2018, 03:28:51 AM

Title: I Can't Copy and Paste in Terminal
Post by: biff123 on April 14, 2018, 03:28:51 AM
I can't figure out how to copy and paste in the terminal. Neither ctrl+V nor ctrl+shift+V works, nor can I right-click to paste in the terminal. I'm new to linux, but I've been trying out lots of different distros and have never ran into this problem. I'm I missing something obvious?
Title: Re: I Can't Copy and Paste in Terminal
Post by: seppalta on April 14, 2018, 05:53:05 AM
What terminal are you using?  The ability to copy and paste is a function of the terminal.  Some, like xterm, do not copy and paste.
Title: Re: I Can't Copy and Paste in Terminal
Post by: biff123 on April 15, 2018, 12:15:49 AM
I, unfortunately, don't recall what terminal I was using as I've already moved on to another distro. I'm doing a lot of distro hopping right now. It was whatever the default terminal for Sparky Linux Game Over edition is. I'm sure that you are right, however, about how I just needed to install a different terminal. I will probably come back to Sparky Linux later, as I did like it, but I will probably try just the vanilla edition and not the Game Over one, as it had too much stuff on there I didn't want or need. Thank you so much for your response seppalta!
Title: Re: I Can't Copy and Paste in Terminal
Post by: Bert B. on April 19, 2018, 05:05:31 PM
biff, which surface do you have installed? for example, I have the MATE version installed, which brings its own terminal. ctrl-c and ctrl-v do not work, but the right-mouse-button does.

maybe you can find the installed terminals by typing "terminal" in the search field in the main menue ;)
Title: Re: I Can't Copy and Paste in Terminal
Post by: pavroo on April 19, 2018, 10:35:06 PM
GameOver uses Openbox and xterm as default.
It is very simple terminal emulator so it is better to change it to other, for example Lxterminal or any.
Title: Re: I Can't Copy and Paste in Terminal
Post by: keithrboz on May 03, 2018, 01:50:47 PM
Quote from: Bert B. on April 19, 2018, 05:05:31 PM
biff, which surface do you have installed? for example, I have the MATE version installed, which brings its own terminal. ctrl-c and ctrl-v do not work, but the right-mouse-button does.

maybe you can find the installed terminals by typing "terminal" in the search field in the main menue ;)

Have you tried shft-ctrl-c & shft-ctrl-v
Title: Re: I Can't Copy and Paste in Terminal
Post by: tenfoot on May 03, 2018, 08:56:42 PM
Quote from: Bert B. on April 19, 2018, 05:05:31 PM
biff, which surface do you have installed? for example, I have the MATE version installed, which brings its own terminal. ctrl-c and ctrl-v do not work, but the right-mouse-button does.

maybe you can find the installed terminals by typing "terminal" in the search field in the main menue ;)

I'm also using Mate as my DE on Sparky 5.3 with the 4.15.0-3 kernel and Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V work as expected :)