So I see a lot of comments in this thread about OSX has a much cleaner interpretation of Command-C vs Ctrl-C in Linux. Actually, the problem is that you should

So I see a lot of comments in this thread about OSX has a much cleaner interpretation of Command-C vs Ctrl-C in Linux. Actually, the problem is that you should NOT be using ctrl-c to copy in linux. the global copy command in Linux obeys the CUA [1] standard. Copy is defined to be "Ctrl-Insert" and paste is defined as "Shift-Insert". This will work on all kinds of user interfaces on Linux - including the cmdline, the browser, etc. However this is an issue which I dont know is a bug or something (I'm on Ubuntu 12.04) - if you open "System Settings" in Ubuntu and copy text from there, I'm not able to paste it on the browser, but am able to paste it everywhere else using the command sequence described above. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access