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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon tom-james-watson

Pasting into terminal doesn't work

Open djmattyg007 opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Pasting into a terminal usually requires sending Ctrl+Shift+V, rather than Ctrl+V. The default setup of this program produces weird behaviour, because Ctrl+V is usually used to perform other existing behaviour in the shell (unrelated to pasting of text).

I noticed that an xdotool approach was proposed in #41 and #42. While I appreciate that it has other problems, it feels like it would resolve the issue of pasting into terminals.

djmattyg007 avatar Jul 04 '21 02:07 djmattyg007

I think we probably can just change the app to have xdotool do ctrl+shift+v, which should work anywhere.

tom-james-watson avatar Jun 20 '23 14:06 tom-james-watson

Unfortunately if ctrl+shift+v doesn't paste correctly in GTK apps, so it's not just as simple as switching the xdotool command to that.

tom-james-watson avatar Jul 20 '23 09:07 tom-james-watson