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I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and I found today that my copy/paste commands don't work in the terminal. I've tried every solution I could find with a bit of googling, but nothing seems to help.

"Right click"->"paste" will paste fine into a terminal, but "right click"->"copy" doesn't seem to copy from the terminal.

Any suggestions?

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Be sure to enable Shortcuts in your gnome-terminal preferences:

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    Enabled. Still not working.
    – Andrew Watson
    Commented Jun 21, 2016 at 18:59
  • @AndrewWatson ok, try to reinstall it with sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-terminal
    – Sylvain Pineau
    Commented Jun 21, 2016 at 19:02
  • Just reinstalled. Still not working.
    – Andrew Watson
    Commented Jun 21, 2016 at 19:07
  • As you're a reputation 6 user: if this answers your question, don't forget to click the grey ☑ under the "0" at the left of this text to accept it, which means "yes, this answer is valid"!
    – David Foerster
    Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 16:46
  • Great solution, thanks Sylvain. I performed 'do-release-upgrade' from 20.04-22.04 and lost the ability to Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V ! That was really frustrating and after much searching I found this solution :)
    – Dig
    Commented Aug 24, 2023 at 15:54
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I had this problem. Turned out that Ctrl+Shift was taken by gnome-tweaks to change keyboard layouts.

If this is the case with you, go to gnome-tweaks (just type it in the terminal), go to
Keyboard & Mouse > Additional Layout Options > Switching to another layout.

Ctrl+Shift will be checked. Just uncheck it and it should fix the problem.

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    Thanks! Great solution!
    – Qui-Gon Jinn
    Commented Nov 19, 2022 at 1:16

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