Hello I can’t find the option to reassign shortcuts in xfce4-terminal 0.6.3. I’d like to reassign ctrl+c to copy, ctrl+v to paste and ctrl+shift+c to kill process. I know I can do that easily under gnome-terminal but since I’m using xfce I would like to avoid installing all the dependencies for gnome-terminal. Any idea on how to achieve that ?
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Method 1
The accepted answer doesn’t work anymore (for example with xfce4-terminal 0.8.7.4 on Lubuntu 18.04.2) because of a GTK3 change, as described on How to change key bindings for xfce-terminal?. It seems that the only way to change the keyboard shortcuts is by modifying the configuration file, ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/accels.scm.
Open the file, search for “copy”, and replace ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/terminal-window/copy" "<Primary><Shift>c") with (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/terminal-window/copy" "<Primary>c").
That is: change the shortcut, but also remove the semicolon at the beginning of the beginning of the line. (It’s a comment delimiter.)
The same for “paste”: replace ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/terminal-window/paste" "<Primary><Shift>v") with (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/terminal-window/paste" "<Primary>v").
Restart the terminal.
Method 2
In xfce terminal go to Edit, hover your mouse over Copyand press ctrl+c.
Same goes for paste.
Kill process gets automatically reassigned to ctrl+c+shift.
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