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I tried to do this, with 3 different distributions, lucked out and went back to my Mac. Things I found frustrating: Bluetooth sometimes stopped working, keyboar

I tried to do this, with 3 different distributions, lucked out and went back to my Mac. Things I found frustrating: Bluetooth sometimes stopped working, keyboard was lagging, weird Desktop animations. I was able to find workarounds for most of the problems - but wasted 20 hours. One problem I really just couldn't get my muscle memory to work around is that in all the Desktops Terminals have different shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+C/V) than all the Desktop apps (Ctrl+C/V). I was hoping I could find a Desktop preconfigured to use the Super (aka Windows) Key similar to macOS' cmd-key: i.e. every Super+X shortcut goes to the GUI layer (for example for Copy & Paste). This leaves room for Ctrl-X shortcuts send Control-Keys to terminal apps. Anyone having a suggestion to improve that?

ufo 8y ago
Rebinding ctrl-C to super-C everywhere sounds like a big hassle. And I wouldn't be surprised if not every app lets you rebind this sort of thing. One thing that can be relatively easily done is to remap the super key to act as an additional ctrl key or to swap the ctrl and super keys. But that wouldn't solve the "terminal consistency" issue. Some terminals allow you to change their keybindings to use ctrl-C and ctrl-V for copy-paste. However, if you do this you need to also remap the key you use to send a SIGINT to the current running process. https://askubuntu.com/questions/53688 https://askubuntu.com/questions/53688 All that said, most people I know just get used to using ctrl+shift for terminal shortcuts eventually. BTW, in Linux you can also use the middle mouse click to paste. Select some text and then click the middle mouse button to paste the current selection. This works the same on regular apps and the terminal.