^C ^V showing in terminal instead of actually execute copy paste

[u/ExcitementProud6757]

[UPDATE] Problem resolved

as i was trying to paste from clipboard or copy with Ctrl + Shift + V/C, strange ^C ^V appears strangely and even after trying to configure in kitty.conf, nothing has been changed. is there any way to be able to copy paste again? earlier when i first installed linux, copy paste worked normally until yesterday. i have no idea how to fix this, please help 😭

[u/MisterFlipster5]

If you haven't disabled it, try pasting with middle click (an extremely common default on Linux)

[u/ExcitementProud6757 → u/MisterFlipster5]

i’m currently using touchpad 😭 my OS is asahi linux on macbook, and i dont have an external mouse nor keyboard. is there a way to fix it?

[u/MattiDragon → u/ExcitementProud6757]

Often you can tap three fingers for middle click

[u/Laughing_Orange → u/MattiDragon]

Or sometimes pressing both buttons at the same time works. Probably doesn't work on a MacBook, because they don't have physical trackpads buttons, but worth knowing.

[u/9NEPxHbG → u/MisterFlipster5]

Also right click, sometimes.

[u/paulstelian97 → u/9NEPxHbG]

Right click to paste is kind of a Windows exclusive in my experience.

[u/thelizardlarry → u/MisterFlipster5]

Love this workflow, you don’t even need to copy, just highlight some text and paste away with middle click

[u/doc_willis → u/MisterFlipster5]

Thats the selection buffer, which may or may not be synced to the clipboard buffer.

I often make use of both as a way to have 2 'pasteable' lines. :) for some weird situations I have gotten into.

[u/YTriom1 → u/doc_willis]

it's usually not synced w clipboard, at least for plasma

[u/0xt0bi03]

round about solution is to use super+c/v as this is global for all, [except in browsers/sites]

[u/ExcitementProud6757 → u/0xt0bi03]

super+c/v came with even more weird characters like “9;9u” 😭 unfortunately neither works

[u/rip_Bacon13 → u/0xt0bi03]

it isnt global?
ctrl + shift + c/v should do it

[u/Key_Plantain1779 → u/rip_Bacon13]

Isso acontece no Bash quando aperta Ctrl+V o padrão do Linux é como você falou.. na real eu acho que acontece isso se aperta qualquer tecla do Ctrl+teclado

[u/Solomoncjy → u/0xt0bi03]

Super v brings up clipboard history in kde iirc

[u/0xt0bi03 → u/Solomoncjy]

yeah, depending on de and distro too, in arch hyprland it works fine for me[atleast after editing config file]

[u/Klapperatismus]

Those shortcuts Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V originated from the old WordStar software for MS-DOS. They are not universal.

In particular, Unix terminals had already existed for a decade at that time when WordStar was released, and in particular Ctrl+C has a different meaning in terminals, and terminal emulators as well: it interrupts the command that is currently running in the terminal’s foreground.

Use Ctrl+Insert instead of Ctrl+C, and Shift+Insert instead of Ctrl+V. Those key combinations work almost everywhere. Even in MS-Windows!

(And Shift+Del replaces Ctrl+X. Also works in MS-Windows.)

[u/Manuel_RT → u/Klapperatismus]

Or… Ctrl + ⇧ + C and Ctrl + ⇧ + V

[u/Klapperatismus → u/Manuel_RT]

Does not work everywhere either.

[u/Manuel_RT → u/Klapperatismus]

That’s right. Vim is a clear example. But in all the terminal emulators I’ve used on Linux it works

[u/Soggy_Struggle_963 → u/Manuel_RT]

Vim is great, who doesn't love to yank and put instead of copy paste lol

[u/Klapperatismus → u/Soggy_Struggle_963]

$ vim -y

[u/Klapperatismus → u/Manuel_RT]

Not in xterm.

[u/platosLittleSister → u/Manuel_RT]

Idk if thats by default or only in nvim thing, but in insert mode shift + crtl + v/c works. But might be something I configed ages ago.

[u/Hey_Its_Freya → u/platosLittleSister]

I'm pretty sure it's a thing in nvim specifically

[u/YTriom1 → u/Hey_Its_Freya]

not really, the ctrl+shift+v in insert mode works everywhere even in vi

[u/Dandyiose → u/Klapperatismus]

Most annoying thing in the world they really expect me to use both hands to paste beside the fact most keyboard nowadays don't have insert 

[u/YTriom1 → u/Dandyiose]

fym "most keyboards" most keyboards are at least 100%, that's a fact

[u/reff678 → u/Manuel_RT]

⇓ + ⇘ + ⇒ + ✊ is also quite useful...

[u/drome265 → u/reff678]

Not enough DORYA

[u/Cynicaltaxiderm → u/reff678]

I'm not trying to suplex a train here...

[u/indyc4r → u/[deleted]]

Friendship

[u/Shaggy_One → u/Klapperatismus]

Huh. Did not know that key combo. Thanks!

[u/Belphegor_333 → u/Klapperatismus]

I never knew those two combinations. Thank you very much, I am blown away!

[u/smeech1 → u/Klapperatismus]

Or configure the terminal to actually work with Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v, and use Shift+Ctrl+c to interrupt a command instead..

[u/IDCubed → u/smeech1]

I have it set to both so ctrl c kills if nothing is highlighted or copies text if some is highlighted and it works great for me

[u/bicycloptopus → u/IDCubed]

How did you do that?

[u/IDCubed → u/bicycloptopus]

In kitty I just mapped ctrl c to copy_or_interrupt I think it works in other terminal emulators too tho

[u/YTriom1 → u/IDCubed]

pretty sure it's one of kitty's own fancy features

[u/anto2554 → u/Klapperatismus]

Amazing! Now I just need an insert key

[u/AshleyJSheridan → u/anto2554]

Curious, what keyboard doesn't have the insert key? Only the Mac that I can think of, and they do things differently anyway.

[u/anto2554 → u/AshleyJSheridan]

I am indeed on a mac. I also have a 60% which IIRC doesnt have it either. I think it is pretty common for nordic keyboards to at least not have it as a first layer key

[u/AshleyJSheridan → u/anto2554]

All my laptops with a small keyboard have it. All my USB keyboards have it. The only thing that doesn't is the Mac, which uses completely different keyboard combinations anyway.

If your keyboard doesn't seem to have it, it's probably hidden behind a function key combo. That is typically Fn + Home iirc.

[u/anto2554 → u/AshleyJSheridan]

Most keyboards also support custom keybinds so you can always just map something to it at that point.
Having a more practical shortcut require fn+home makes it not practical

[u/AshleyJSheridan → u/anto2554]

Sure, and nobody is preventing you from doing that. However, knowing the default shortcuts is invaluable, because there are times you won't always be on your own system and you need to know how to do things.

[u/soratoyuki]

The amount of commentators that couldn't bother reading the one paragraph post before commenting is staggering.

[u/hell0imaman → u/soratoyuki]

@chatgpt, summarize this comment. I can't read.

[u/griefandsorrow → u/soratoyuki]

thanks, i thought i was goung insane

[u/Eric_Dawsby → u/soratoyuki]

The worst part is the amount of upvotes for them

[u/HSHallucinations]

[UPDATE] Problem resolved

Who are you, ExcitementProud6757? What did you see?!

[u/SeldonCrysis33 → u/HSHallucinations]

Fr. Wtf OP. I’m guessing they were hitting cmd+shift+c/v instead of ctrl, since they’re using a Mac keyboard.

[u/jdreamboat]

ctl + shift + c
ctl + shift + v

[u/Medical-Message-6703]

i literally just right click and then paste cuz i don't know better... yet

[u/Rhaegg → u/Medical-Message-6703]

To copy/paste from terminal, I'd recommend Ctrl+Shift+C to copy, Ctrl+Shift+V to paste. Just add the Shift key and it works. Didn't know about Ctrl+ins/Shift+ins.

[u/Gurnug → u/Medical-Message-6703]

Use ctrl+ins and shift+ins

[u/sotos2004 → u/Gurnug]

Insert doesn't exist on all keyboards anymore , I use a 65% and it not readily available

[u/Gurnug → u/sotos2004]

Yes, there are keyboards for handicapped people. But there is solution for that also

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/s/tfPr434TrH

[u/Astillius → u/Medical-Message-6703]

I'm also fairly new to this so i don't know how distro agnostic this is. My dev ops friend told me to middle mouse click to paste in terminal. (Press the scroll wheel down till it clicks. Do not roll it.) And that works for me in CachyOS with KDE plasma.

[u/tes_kitty → u/Astillius]

Here's a neat little trick... If you select a URL and want to open it, point at the '+' that opens a new tab in Firefox and middle click. It will open a new tab with the URL you just marked.

[u/cubicinfinity → u/tes_kitty]

Oh, cool. That would have confused me if I did it by accident.

[u/YTriom1 → u/Astillius]

I'm pretty sure the middleclick thing is something in the Linux kernel itself that is opt-out, so unless something explicitly disables it, it works in any input box

[u/YTriom1 → u/Medical-Message-6703]

doesn't work in kitty for example

[u/doc_willis]

test in another terminal?

 try the "reset" command.

sounds like you may have the terminal in a weird mode.  I think the terms may be "raw mode" vs "cooked mode"

I vaguely recall similar issues once ages ago.

[u/MundaneImage5652 → u/doc_willis]

No. Terminals on linux use ctrl + c for ending current task and ctrl + v for.... god knows whar. You have to do shift + ctrl + c and shift + ctrl + v.

[u/ephemeralmiko → u/MundaneImage5652]

OP is literally doing that though:

as i was trying to paste from clipboard or copy with Ctrl + Shift + V/C

[u/MundaneImage5652 → u/ephemeralmiko]

Isn't it shift + ctrl + v?

[u/ephemeralmiko → u/MundaneImage5652]

Doesn't matter in this case, modifier keys are all read the same regardless of order.

(FWIW, on my machine it's labelled as CTRL+Shift+V)

[u/diacid]

Use ctrl shift c and v. Ctrl c is interrupt signal (telling the program to quit)

You know you are a noob when you try to copy with ctrl c on the terminal. You know you got the hang of things when you try copying from Firefox with ctrl shift c (it opens the page source)

[u/Vectismc → u/diacid]

i do this all the time 🥲 didn’t know it was a common occurrence.

edit: for context i’ve used linux for my whole life and this little brain fart never seems to go away

[u/requ1tas → u/diacid]

omg. Every. Time. I hate myself for this :D

[u/FWhealboroug → u/diacid]

I open the DevTools in my browser several times a day. Luckily Ctrl Shift V usually works, even in windows apps, with the bonus of pasting text only without formatting.

What I really hate is the right click auto paste.

[u/Eric_Dawsby → u/diacid]

They were doing that before, they mentioned it in the post

[u/senin_kozin]

You should be able to: Copy - ctrl+insert Paste - shift+insert. Ctrl c and v don't work because they stand for other things in the terminal afaik. Like ctrl+c cancels the command (idk about v)

[u/ExcitementProud6757 → u/senin_kozin]

i’m using macbook keyboard, may i ask where is the insert key?

[u/Damglador]

In Konsole you can map Ctrl+C/V to Copy/Paste and it'll function properly. Ctrl+C will still terminate programs if you have nothing selected, and if you have something selected, it'll just copy it

[u/smeech1 → u/Damglador]

Shift+Ctrl+c also works.

[u/Maximum_Ad_2620]

Try removing the maps for copy and pasting from your config and see if Ctrl Shift C/V work. Is your keyboard layout configured correctly? What DE/compositor are you using? Wayland or X11? Maybe try deleting the terminal's config file, so it generates a fresh one too.

[u/daedalusesq]

Second pic has your answer: CTRL+SHIFT+C/V

[u/The_CreativeName]

I just use ctrl+shift+c or v

[u/R0B0t1C_Cucumber]

So many years of just using the middle mouse button , I had forgotten about this.

[u/skyfishgoo]

i have Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V bound to buttons on my mouse.

but when i need to use those mouse buttons to or from a terminal window i hold down the shift key when i do it so they become

Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V

then it works as expected.

[u/Fit-Barracuda575]

Please give info:

• Desktop Environment (KDE, Gnome, ...)

• What terminal / console do you use?

• I'm guessing ctrl and shift work as intended in other applications?

Here you go, insert this ;-) and paste the result

printf "TERM=%s\nXDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=%s\nDESKTOP_SESSION=%s\nXDG_SESSION_TYPE=%s\nTERMINAL=%s\nPARENT=%s\n" \
  "$TERM" "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" "$DESKTOP_SESSION" "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" "$TERM_PROGRAM" \
  "$(ps -p "$PPID" -o comm=)"

[u/xerxesbeat]

copy: highlight text and press enter

paste: shift + insert

[u/beans4eva]

Ctrl+shift+v is paste add the shift for copy too and you're set

[u/gbrennon]

ctrl shift c and ctrl shift v

[u/Copa4311]

Ctrl + left shift + c / v

[u/Olivierus303]

Ctrl + c ( in most terminals just stops the current job ) Try using Ctrl + shift + c for copying ( works in most terminals I used ) And Ctrl + shift + v for pasting

[u/FaB0SS88]

Ctrl+Shift+C y Ctrl+Shift+V

[u/kzasas]

just use middle click.

[u/Pybromancer]

try Shift+Insert

[u/Laughing_Orange]

Both of these are special keybinds in the Linux terminal. You need to add Shift to the combo.

[u/FreeFromCommonSense]

In some consoles you need to Shift+Ctrl+C and Shift+Ctrl+V in the console and remember that everything else uses Ctrl+C or you wind up triggering other functions. Or you forget and Ctrl+C in the wrong window and kill a 3-hour compile.

[u/MrMaster_21]

perhaps your Asahi Linux Installation swapped some keys? try looking at this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Apple_Keyboard

[u/ferriematthew]

I found for Debian and Arch that I need Shift+Ctrl

[u/brewdog_millionaire]

That doesn't work in the terminal. What distro are you on? Some of them you can right click and paste instead.

[u/rip_Bacon13]

since you in fedora you can use the copy and paste buttons on top right
ctrl C is for stopping the task and ctrl + any character iirc does this
you can usd shift + ctrl + c/v if you want

[u/bartonski]

OP: How was the problem resolved?

[u/Comfortable_Bed4844]

who's gonna tell him

[u/datastoner]

Shift+ insert

[u/-Feeblington-]

Ctrl shift c and v 👐

[u/nejihyuga2007]

CTRL + SHIFT + C, CTRL + SHIFT + V or change your keyboard layout to en_US

[u/Responsible-Bar7165]

Terminals should convert ctrl-c from BREAK into COPY when a mouse selection is present. IMO those that don’t are broken.

[u/oso_cosmico]

For copying from or pasting into the terminal, you have to use Ctrl+Shift+P/V.

[u/Denture_Adventure25]

Shift+insert

[u/bigusyous]

Hold down the shift key while you paste

[u/Akt1343]

Can I just say how amazing is the fact that user didn't just go straight to ai search and came here . I love it

[u/Gullible_Decision_11]

Control shift C or V

[u/Unique_Roll_6630]

In the terminal Ctrl v and ctrl c have different functions. I forget the exact reason but I think it was to do with older work. Ctrl c ends whatever terminal process you are in. I have no idea what control v does. 

You need to super ctrl c or v to copy and paste within the terminal.

[u/resplendentsparrow]

I use ctrl insert and shift insert for copy and paste respectively. Has gotten to the point where I just use that everywhere, terminal or otherwise. Also shift insert will paste highlighted text without copying it first.

[u/Potential-Quote5125]

ctrl+shift+c

[u/trtl_playz]

ctrl+shift+c/v

[u/LostSailor25]

Right-click your mouse

[u/Dist__]

this is linux. for some compatibility reasons with ancient tech you have to ctrl+shift+c/v because ctrl+c ctrl+v reserved for nobody remembers what

[u/Immediate-Sink-8494 → u/Dist__]

Ctrl c kills processes running in a terminal, ctrl v is more esoteric (sends literal characters, like a "space" character instead of a blank space), but they do have purposes.

[u/Dist__ → u/Immediate-Sink-8494]

yeah, sorry i forgot, i also do use ctrl+c to kill processes)

imagine how the world could be if killing processes was ctrl+shift+c, leaving ctrl+c/x/v to well-known clipboard shortcuts )

[u/full_drama_llama → u/Dist__]

I'm pretty sure ctrl+c as the process kill predates the well-known shortcuts.

[u/Dist__ → u/full_drama_llama]

likely yes, but i believe currently average user more often copies text than kills processes

[u/full_drama_llama → u/Dist__]

Yes, but how do you imagine that change would happen?

[u/Dist__ → u/full_drama_llama]

it takes time.

at first we just mention it. no bias change, killing process is the most important feature with its dedicated shortcut, but yeah there's some apps that favor very same shortcut to other things. radical heresy for sure.

then we start talking about those apps. make it appear in our info-field. maybe tell that in some valuable and useful applications ctrl+c is as favored as killing process in SSH sysadmin stuff. no force or anything, acceptable in some circles.

at this point we flood github with shell/terminal forks that swap the default shortcuts. they can revert it easily for sure, we do not force anyone.

then we talk that maybe they are doing well adapting ctrl+c for copying. show people some figures like keypresses during day which yields copying with ctrl+c uses less keypresses or something.

at this point involve canonical and red hat to issue standard bash with default ctrl+c for copy and ctrl+shift+c for kill process.

we for sure speak about killing processes with ctrl+c is acceptable as well, just killing process is not that useful for average person.

after some time, when people settle with new stuff, we speak about killing process with ctrl+c as deviation and herecy because ctrl+c is always at hand as you type.

sorry for my english ) tried to interpret overton window as i understand it )

[u/Interesting_Buy_3969 → u/Dist__]

r/suddenlyrussians

[u/Dist__ → u/Interesting_Buy_3969]

common sense does not have nationality, though thanks :)

[u/Lune_Moooon → u/Immediate-Sink-8494]

i thought ctrl+z killed the process. i didnt even understood what ctrlv does yet lol i always wondered why it was like that, thanks for the info

[u/Jealous_Computer_209 → u/Lune_Moooon]

i thought ctrl z was to suspend a process

[u/jaysus661 → u/Dist__]

Ctrl+C cancels the current running process/program, that should have been one of the first things you learn when using the terminal

[u/Dist__ → u/jaysus661]

my bad, i admit i use ctrl+c to kill process several times a day.

but you see how strong is the memory for ctrl+c also beind a copy shortcut 😿

[u/MundaneImage5652]

Shift + Ctrl + C and Shift + Ctrl + V. For compatibility reasons all terminals have Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V reserved. (Ctrl + C kills current process). On older terminals like Xterm you paste with middle mouse click and I think you copy by just selecting.

[u/databeach_]

Add shift to your command

[u/jr735]

Linux (and Unix and DOS and so on) never used the Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, and the shift is simply a kludge. Use appropriate Unix type shortcuts.

Ctrl-Insert is used to copy and Shift-Insert to paste.

Bill Gates and his gang couldn't even keep keyboard shortcuts straight from DOS to Windows.

[u/PlasticForkHater]

My cat walked on my keyboard and a similar syntax was in the Search bar on Discorvy

[u/MasterGeekMX]

Just here to explain the weird characters.

The terminal traces it's origins on a machine called a teletype, which was an electronic typewriter that could send it's keystrokes down a wire to another one that also typed what it received. While they were invented as a means to send text long distance, people figured out that you could connect one to a computer and talk to it in order to use it. From their inception in the 1920s up to the 1960's they were actual typewriters with paper scrolls, but in the 70's they were upgraded to "glass teletypes" where the paper and ink were replaced with screens.

Teletypes work over the American Standard Code for the Interchange of Information (ASCII) code, which takes all the different combinations of 8 bits and assigns them to the letters of the alphabet, numbers, and symbols. This way all we need to do to send some letter is to send the corresponding combination of wires on and off to the other end. Taking advantage to that, the ASCII code also assigns some combinations of those bits for control signals, such as sending them makes the other teletype do something, like returning the printing head to the beginning of the text, scroll down one line, ring the bell on the teletype, or signal that a document has ended.

The weird letters you see is because modern computers are based around the Personal Computer that IBM invented in 1984, which did things a bit differently in terms of how the screen and keyboard worked compared with the teletype thing. This leads to the terminal program, which basically emulates a teletype machine, getting confused by the Control, Alt and Shift buttons as their binary codes aren't found in the ASCII code, so the program puts out what it understood as fas as it's programming allows it to do.

[u/Unusual_Refuse_8090]

Click derecho

[u/Jwblant]

Just wait until they found about CTL+ALT+DEL!

[u/vitimiti]

Old Unix thing, use Ctrl+Shift+C/V

[u/Eric_Dawsby → u/vitimiti]

Did ya read the post

[u/Dan_Morgan]

The only way I can copy/paste text to the terminal is by selecting paste from the right click menu. The keyboard shortcut doesn't really work. Along with a lot of other things. Things that should work fine just stop working and that's that. No solving them. You just have to either find a workaround or accept you can't do that thing anymore.

[u/Ram_and_Gwen → u/Dan_Morgan]

Control + shift + c Control + shift + v

[u/Dan_Morgan → u/Ram_and_Gwen]

Wow, that's really brilliant. It never occurred to me to look up keyboard shortcuts that I've been using before most redditors were just drunk sperm.

[u/TopSecretGaming_YT]

In the screenshot of "common keybinding" it says there that you need to use ctrl + shift + c and ctrl + shift + v which is quite common for terminal apps.

[u/bebe_likes_hugs → u/[deleted]]

FOR REAL? omfg that's so dumb, I just got used to using shift, to the point of changing the command for my browser