OIC - you want a COPY key and a PASTE key - not a key combo but you want one key press to take the place of CTRL-C, CTRL-V.
Well that is a bit shall we say non-standard. Also I do tend to agree that Ubuntu and its evil twin Unity tends to be rather restrictive which is why on the two Ubuntu boxen I’m using on a day to day basis I use Gnome shell.
So my takes would be these:
1. Ubuntu as I said tends to be rather dictatorial - I prefer Fedora - Ubuntu feels like they know better than you do about what your computing environment should be like. Which doesn’t defeat the whole purpose of linux but some of it.
2. Having some one key emit CTRL-C is not something I’ve ever thought of doing in linux. Not saying that it categorically can’t be done but it does sound like one’s going against the grain just a bit. If it were me I’d google it as you’ve done, ask questions as you’ve done and experiment a lot. But at the end of the day it may or may not be possible.
3. In linux things like terminal settings and keyboard settings are really low level, really confusing and go back to basically the 1970s and the early early days of Unix. They say understanding things like termcaps and the like is a very hard thing to do - X programs that emulate the old physical terminals. There’s a lot of old time unix magic in that stuff.
I guess to sum up there’s that old saying “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference”. Some of this linux stuff is like that. It just may be that you need the serenity to accept this limitation and the wisdom to not go chasing this elusive goal. Personally, I don’t mind pressing Ctrl-C since I’m used to Emacs where you have to press all kinds of weirdo key combos - many much worse than that. :)
Yes, that works well for my stiff fingers. POus FF extensiona like BBCodeXtra,, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bbcodextra/ An extension which adds to the context menu new commands to insert BBCode/Html/XHtml codes in an easy and fast way... Very useful for FR.
Ubuntu as I said tends to be rather dictatorial - I prefer Fedora - Ubuntu feels like they know better than you do about what your computing environment should be like. Which doesn’t defeat the whole purpose of linux but some of it.
Understood.
Having some one key emit CTRL-C is not something I’ve ever thought of doing in linux. Not saying that it categorically can’t be done but it does sound like one’s going against the grain just a bit. If it were me I’d google it as you’ve done, ask questions as you’ve done and experiment a lot. But at the end of the day it may or may not be possible.
But using autohotkey, you just add the lines
CapsLock::^c
Esc::^v
mbutton::^x
to a script which you load, and its good to go. Although W/10 has decreed it is not to be loaded from either start folder, so i must do so manually.
It just may be that you need the serenity to accept this limitation and the wisdom to not go chasing this elusive goal.
But that is critical for me if i was going to use Linux as the default OS. Plus my PhoneTrayFree app (records Caller ID numbers for the landline phone thru the modem) is very useful (no cell) and will not work under Linux.
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference”.
Right.