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I have xfce installed and use xfce terminal. I can't figure out how to overwrite the default shortcuts so that I can use Ctrl+C(V) for copy/paste in the terminal. So far in other desktop environments I've used it was pretty easy and intuitive. In xfce I simply can't find a way to do that.

Alan Coromano
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  • You can still use gnome-terminal in your xfce session and set what you want with `Edit`, `Keyboard Shortcuts`. – DK Bose Mar 16 '16 at 14:07

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Use the mouse in the menu bar (If the menu bar is not visible, right click somewhere in your terminal and click Show Menubar) and navigate to Edit. You will see entries for Copy and Paste with their currently configured shortcuts. Right click them and you will get a context menu where you can change them.

Alternatively, there is the GTK+ way of changing it by hovering the mouse over it and just hitting the new binding.

However, still being a good terminal emulator, xfce4-terminal is not the most configurable one out there. Most distros have multiple terminal emulators from various desktops in their packet sources. I suggest that you have a look at Konsole if you want more features and flexibility.

Philipp Moers
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    that's wrong... – Alan Coromano Mar 16 '16 at 09:25
  • What exactly ist wrong? I tried the first approach and it worked for me. – Philipp Moers Mar 16 '16 at 11:13
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    Edit is a menu and it has subitems. And there's no Copy-Paste edit shortcuts anywhere in xfce terminal. – Alan Coromano Mar 16 '16 at 14:54
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    As Xfce 4.10, the only way to change is by using the latter method (hovering mouse over and hit new keybindings). User must select "Enable editable accelerators" in `Appearance` > `Settings` - `Menus and Buttons` to do so. –  Jun 13 '16 at 10:03
  • This worked for me in the past only after enabling editable accelerators in SettingsManager -> Appearance -> Settings. But I can confirm it doesn't work now in all cases: in Manjaro 16.2 Xfce it doesn't. –  Dec 05 '16 at 16:15
  • http://docs.xfce.org/faq specifies a case where enabling editable accelerators could be done by editing a file (that I haven't found yet.) –  Dec 05 '16 at 16:21
  • At least for xfce 4.12 the comment from @clearkimura helped me. The important point is: not right-click, but just hit new keybindings! See also answer at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/271150/how-to-set-ctrlc-to-copy-ctrlv-to-paste-and-ctrlshiftc-to-kill-process-in-x. – dr0i Jun 12 '17 at 08:27
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    Xfce terminal has moved to GTK+ 3, which has no longer supports this feature. Changing keyboard shortcuts can only be done by editing a config file, see post https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=12105 – Low power Jan 10 '19 at 04:03
  • More than 100 dependencies for a terminal makes installing Konsole in Xfce the worst choice possible. – cipricus Feb 23 '21 at 08:00