Re:Linux Desktop Environments System Usage
by whalesalad on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:39PM
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I am spoiled on macos, where cmd is the primary modifier key. So cmd-c and cmd-v are for copy/paste, and ctrl-c still continues to work in a terminal. I understand the need for ctrl-shift-c in a linux term, where ctrl-c needs to remain for signaling processes. I just wish I could globally remap this. Some of the hacks exist for this (https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto) but it's a leaky abstraction and not fool proof.
Besides CTRL+SHIFT+C/CTRL+SHIFT+V to copy/paste in terminals, there are some other alternative mappings for common functions that I like to use sometimes and which work pretty widely:
- copy: Ctrl+Insert
- paste: Shift+Insert
- next tab: Ctrl+PgDn
- previous tab: Ctrl+PgUp
What other application uses something else than CTRL+C for copying on Linux? Been using various Linux flavors for decades and the only application that requires a different shortcut than CTRL+C is terminals, as they already use CTRL+C for something else.
Otherwise I can't think of a single application using something else than CTRL+C.