Changing the clipboard shortcut in 4.0 doesn't work

[arthur....@gmail.com]

I prefer to use a different shortcut for the Qubes clipboard because Ctrl+Shift+V is an existing shortcut for "paste without formatting" in most applications. However, I've tried editing /etc/qubes/guid.conf and restarting my VMs (I actually restarted my whole system), but no luck. I figure something changed now that the clipboard is a standalone application, but I'm not sure what needs to be modified.

Thanks!

[arthur....@gmail.com]

As a follow-up because I see this has been asked at-length both here an on GitHub: I tried changing this to "Ctrl-Alt-c" and "Ctrl-Alt-v" in /etc/qubes/guid.conf (using that syntax and capitalization EXACTLY). Is my syntax incorrect? I had this working in 3.2, but it won't work in 4.0. Strange . . .

[arthur....@gmail.com]

Any thoughts, here? My fingers are trained to use "Ctrl-Shift-c" and "Ctrl-Shift-v" for copying from the terminal and pasting without formatting, and it's getting to be quite bothersome that I can't change this shortcut using the instructions in the docs. I'd really like to figure out what's up.

Thanks!

[unman]

Please dont top post.

Making that change works fine for me, but I use KDE.
I wonder if that make a difference? Does Xfce use those key combos
already?

[arthur....@gmail.com]

Sorry - I don't use Google Groups enough, so I just hit "Post Reply" assuming that it would be smart enough to put the reply in the right place.

I looked at the XFCE keyboard shortcuts and window manager keyboard shortcuts, and Ctrl-Alt-c/v aren't in use. There might be another place to look, but those are the main ones off the top of my head. However, I'm not sure if this is a window manager issue since the keyboard shortcut is controlled by the Qubes Clipboard program (qui-clipboard).

I don't know enough about the Qubes internals to trace how it picks up the setting from /etc/qubes/guid.conf (and why it isn't accepting my values after I changed them). I tried doing a recursive grep to find any other places where the default shortcut may be set, but it got a little mind-bending.

I'm happy to provide more details from my system, though - my fingers just really want to use my custom shortcut because they've been confused ever since I upgraded. ;-)

On Friday, August 9, 2019 at 7:47:07 PM UTC-5, unman wrote:

[unman]

And again - just check the message and drop to the bottom. A few seconds
for you and easier for everyone else. (I dont envy you using groups web)

Just to check, you *have* uncommented those lines in the conf file?

[Andrew "Arthur" Summers]

. . . I need to turn over my MS in Information Systems and my BS in Computer Science. I don't know how I overlooked that - probably because I've been doing PHP for the last few years, so I only notice // and /**/ as comments? Sigh . . . I'm sorry for being a bother . . . Thanks, though!

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