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After highlighting text at the command line in Gnome-Terminal with my mouse and then either (1) right-clicking to copy and paste or (2) center-clicking to paste, nothing has been copied. I can copy fine in windows of any other Linux application and paste that material into the command line, but if I try to then copy and paste something from the command window, only the most recent non-command-window text that I copied will be pasted.

Mike Pierce
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Try highlighting text in gnome-terminal and pressing ctrl+shift+c to copy it. Similarly, pressing ctrl+shift+v should paste text into gnome-terminal.

The idea is that we need the shift key too because at the command line, ctrl+c is used to abort the currently running process.

Mike Pierce
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  • This does not work for me, and it is **super frustrating!**. When pasting (with the proposed method or with any other usual method "know to men", what's being pasted is some previous text that was copied into the clipboard, seemingly from a gVim window. Is there an explicit way to config this (RedHat 6.6 / GNOME 2.28.2 / GMONE Terminal 2.31.3, running in a remote VM window under Win10). – ysap Mar 13 '19 at 02:31