Cannot bind ctrl+c and ctrl+v to copy or paste in linux

[rinormaloku]

Cannot bind ctrl+c to copy in linux (Ubuntu 24.04).

If I select it drops the selection but doesn't load anything into the clipboard.

Note: I change my interrupt key to ctrl+x, to free up ctrl+c and it works in terminals such as Terminator.

This is the keyboard input:

[pandalec]

There's an open discussion here, and yes, I need this too :)

[rinormaloku]

I read the discussion and it's about letting ctrl+c through if nothing was selected, in my instance copy doesn't work at all.

Would it still be covered by that implementation?

[haydonryan]

I'm running arch linux + gnome and copy paste works

by adding the lines to the config file:

keybind = ctrl+c=copy_to_clipboard
keybind = ctrl+v=paste_from_clipboard

(what I haven't worked out yet is how to send a ctrl-c (sigint) )

[xircon]

keybind = ctrl+shift+physical:c=text:\x03

Found it in another discussion about russian keyboards. Works here (UK k/b)

#3584

But it plays havoc with emacs in the terminal, so I abandoned and use ctrl+x to copy.

[mitchellh]

I can't reproduce this. Copy works fine for me. Is there a specific keyboard layout or anything else odd going on that can help me reproduce this?

[rinormaloku]

I just wanted to reproduce this, and it works for me now. -- weird... I didn't open ghostty since the day I reported the issue, so I cannot point to what could have fixed it.

[rinormaloku]

I might have found the reason. Configuration changes are not picked up on config reload, and neither are they picked up when closing and reopening ghostty.

I had to kill the ghostly instance, which left a lingering process, and thereafter start it to, for example, pick up background opacity. Likely the hotkeys not being picked up was the same issue.

[xircon]

Was this aimed at me? Emacs uses ctrl+c a lot, when I press ctrl+c a (if I set keybind = ctrl+c=copy_to_clipboard) it swallows the ctrl+c, then the next keystroke just types into the file.

I have a Lenovo Legion laptop, UK keyboard and KDE Plasma (EndeavourOS). I do use keyd to modify some keys (including left control):

leftcontrol = overload(control,macro(leftmeta+t))

If I tap ctrl, it launches ghostty, cannot see if that would affect it, but will test later, but am on my way out for a while.

[mitchellh]

If this was responding to me (you didn't thread so I don't know), then no, I was responding to the OP (hence no thread).

[xircon]

Sorry 😄

[rinormaloku]

After trying this once again, copying was working fine!

I cannot determine what could have fixed it -- besides having rebooted my computer a few times since then I have not used ghostty or made any changes :/