Copy and Paste on Linux

Sunday, January 03, 2010 19:37 Posted by leosaumure
When you select some text in Linux it is already copied.

Middle click the mouse somewhere and the selected text is pasted.
(Left and Right mouse buttons together simulate a middle click if you don't have a middle mouse button)

You can also use CTRL+c for copy and CTRL+v for paste.

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The Linux terminal already has key commands such as CTRL+c kill a process and CTRL+z background a process. So to copy and paste in the terminal use the middle click method or add SHIFT to the key commands
eg CTRL+SHIFT+c for copy and CTRL+SHIFT+v for paste.

1 Response to "Copy and Paste on Linux"

  1. johnraff Says:

    The actual key combination to paste into the terminal depends on the particular terminal. For urxvt, for example, it's SHIFT+INSERT.

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