I am a vim user and I need to use CTRL+V from time to time. Currently it pastes clipboard contents into terminal. In Luna, CTRL+SHIFT+V was used for pasting. How can I change the behavior of the terminal?
I don't want to remap the CTRL+V action.
Thanks in advance, Magnus.
The ability to paste clipboard contents into the terminal using the standard Ctrl + V shortcut is called "natural-copy-paste" and you can disable it in the dconf settings.
If you haven't already done so, install dconf editor using this command:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
Open dconf editor and navigate to org > pantheon > terminal > settings. Once you're there, you can untick the option.
Now pasting into the terminal using Ctrl + V no longer works, and the former default shortcut (Ctrl + Shift + V) is restored.
io.elementary.terminal.setttings
If you prefer to do things in the terminal, simply run:
gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings natural-copy-paste false
Before Elementary OS 5.0, it was:
gsettings set org.pantheon.terminal.settings natural-copy-paste false
For Elementary OS 5.x Juno, it has been set to a new location:
gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings natural-copy-paste false
The 5.5.0 release of Terminal (4th Jan 2020) added the option to toggle Natural Copy/Paste in the Settings menu: https://github.com/elementary/terminal/releases/tag/5.5.0 So now you can change this via the UI.
This was also mentioned in Elementary's blog: https://blog.elementary.io/hera-updates-for-january-2020/#terminal
