Nautilus acting up

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 08:30:28 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>On 9 December 2016 at 23:52, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> It does not paste into terminal, though,
>> but I'm not sure it ever did that.  
>
>To copy from gnome-terminal use Ctrl+Shift+C and to paste Ctrl+Shift+V.
>Ctrl+C does something completely different in the terminal of course.

I prefer to use right click menus, when using GUI terminals. Assuming
a GUI terminal provides a menu bar, usually the edit menu could be used,
too. However, depending on what you want to copy from a file manager to
a terminal, consider to use a file manager that provides this, without
copy and paste. Apart from tools you could create and assign to short
cuts, spacefm by default e.g. opens a terminal of the location shown in
the path bar, if you push F4. When using rodent as file manager, you
don't need a terminal at all, just type a command. IIRC a KDE file
manager could split its window and view a terminal, that follows each
path change you're doing with the file manager, but this is nothing
compared to spacefm tools, let alone what rodent provides. I'm in
favour of spacefm, but most if the times I don't use a file manager,
most of the times I'm just using a terminal. The most advanced
combination of a file manager and a terminal for sure is rodent.
To copy and paste from a file manager to a terminal and vice versa most
likely indicates, that you don't use the tool, that fits best to your
work-flow. There usually should be no need to copy and paste between a
file manager and a terminal. If this happens very seldom, it's ok, but
if it should happen not that seldom, then another tool, most liekely
another file manager fits better to your needs, resp. the file manager
you are already using, might provide some features, but you perhaps
aren't aware of them. 

Regards,
Ralf