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I run Ubuntu Unity 20.04.

I have installed yakuake as my favorite dropdown terminal. While gnome-terminal has let me set my copy/paste shortcuts to CTRL+C/CTRL+V, yakuake offers no such customization in its keyboard shortcuts.

However, if you click inside Yakuake, you get a menu that lists copy and paste as options. If you right-click those, you get a "Configure Shortcut..." option. Then you can change the shortcut. However, that persists only for that one Yakuake session, as another used found out.

I downloaded the Yakuake source and searched for "Configure Shortcut..." so that I could figure out how to manually configure the shortcut and make it persist. However, I unfortunately didn't find anything relevant.

How can I permanently change this setting? Surely there's a configuration file somewhere that I can edit?

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  • To be clear, if you set the keyboard shortcuts to the combination you desire, they are not persistent ? or only the ones for copy/paste ? Jan 26, 2021 at 13:36
  • @RobertRiedl that menu does not allow you to set copy-paste shortcuts. The only way to re-set the combination for copy/paste is by right-clicking inside the yakuake terminal, and then right clicking once more on the "copy" or "paste" menu options.
    – Newb
    Jan 27, 2021 at 3:27
  • Right, I've been using yakuake for a long time but recently switched over to guake (which is literally the same) - you might try it since the option for copy/paste is actually in the keyboard shortcuts and it is persistent in guake. Jan 27, 2021 at 6:59
  • any luck with either guake or manually building yakuake ? Feb 2, 2021 at 8:27

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Looks related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412496, with the fix available since v20.07.08. Since the Ubuntu 20.04 package is on v19.12.3 it won't have the fix.

Make it possible to configure the konsolepart shortcuts

This patch allows the user to configure the by konsolepart provided actions. For example it wasn't possible to configure the copy/paste shortcuts. Also many the "X is an ambiguous shortcut" can now be fixed and remapped if the user so desires.

To try that fix you can follow the instructions to build from source:

git clone https://invent.kde.org/utilities/yakuake.git
git checkout v20.07.80
cd yakuake
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make
sudo make install

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