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Asked: 2016-07-07 06:58:06 +0800 CST

Ctrl + C & Ctrl + V not working in 16.04

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I am not able to copy paste using keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+V and CTRL+C). It is not working globally on my Ubuntu 16.04. CTRL+A is working fine however. How can I fix it? I would be able to add a custom shortcut? If yes, please tell me how. Thanks.

Based on the comments:

  1. I am not able to use the shortcuts in GEdit.

  2. I have only one keyboard layout (hopefully US English).

  3. I cannot find any options which list CTRL+V and CTRL+C in keyboard shortcuts. As a matter of fact, I cannot see anything that has copy or paste among keyboard shortcuts.

  4. CTRL+⇧ Shift+C/V is also not working on Gnome Terminal.

xev output:

KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0xe6, subw 0x0, time 21190334, (-274,200), root:(463,252),
    state 0x0, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0xe6, subw 0x0, time 21190419, (-274,200), root:(463,252),
    state 0x4, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeymapNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  4294967252 0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

Update :

I am able to use CTRL + Insert for Copy and ⇧ Shift + Insert for paste.

16.04

2 Answers

  1. I have stumbled across a fix. In the Keyboard and mouse tab of gnome-tweak-tool. I enabled Show All Input Sources and Show location of Pointer and as if by magic Ctrl is behaving as expected. Weird, does this also work for you?

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  2. On Ubuntu 18.10, I switched the Desktop Environment from Ubuntu to Ubuntu Wayland and it worked.

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