Roxterm – how to have keyboard shortcuts

[Member PPC]

Recently I had to copy and paste a lot in (the default) roxterm and noticed it had no keyboard shortcuts, so I searched on-line and, in a couple of minutes found a quick way to configure any shortcuts I need:

1- Open Roxterm
2- Go to Preferences menu – Configuration manager – “Shortcuts” tab. Make sure that the you have ticked the box that says “enable edition” and click “Ok”
3- Configuring keyboard shortcuts- simple go to the roxterm menu and hover the mouse pointer above the option you want to add a shortcut. Press the key combo you want to assign to that option and it automatically appears on the menu. You can now use that keyboard shortcut.
4- After you have set all the keyboard shortcuts you want, go back to Preferences menu – Configuration manager – “Shortcuts” tab. Untick “enable edition” and click “Ok”, so you don’t accidentally change your shortcuts.

Example: On step 3 try this:
— Hover your mouse cursor above “Edit- copy” and press, on the keyboard the CTRL and C keys (the shortcut appears on the menu)
— Hover your mouse cursor above “Edit- paste” and press, on the keyboard the CTRL and V keys (the shortcut appears on the menu)
— Hover your mouse cursor above “File- New Tab” and press, on the keyboard the CTRL and T keys (the shortcut appears on the menu)

You can now use CTR L+ C to copy, CTRL+ V to paste and CTRL+ T to open a new tab.

I hope someone finds these tip useful, I sure did, after almost 3 years using antiX!

P.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by PPC.

[Member Xecure]

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Thanks, PPC. It is good to know an easy way to add shortcuts to Roxterm.

I have a sugestion though.

PPC wrote:

— Hover your mouse cursor above “Edit- copy” and press, on the keyboard the CTRL and C keys (the shortcut appears on the menu)

If you use Control+C to copy, you will have to edit the shortcut to stop a program from executing in the terminal, that is usually set to Control+C on most terminal emulators. That is why on most terminal emulators Control+Shift+C is the shortcut used to copy, to not override the “stop program” hotkey.

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@Xecure:
When I was copying stuff into Roxterm my muscle memory kept telling me something was missing… Now I know what 🙂
But, in my particular case, there’s no harm done: I past stuff to run commands, I don’t paste anything to a terminal that’s running an active program… Yeah, I know… If I accidentally try to paste into a “busy” terminal, I’ll stop what it’s doing…

Anyway: to be on the safe side, users that configure this keyboard shortcuts should use CTRL+ Shift + C and CTRL+ Shift + V

P.

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