GNOME’s Nautilus file manager is finally matching the behavior of other file managers like KDE’s Dolphin and Xfce’s Thunar with a keyboard shortcut for copying and pasting files.
This Week in GNOME highlighted a notable albeit one could argue long overdue change for GNOME Files / Nautilus: Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert support for copying and pasting files.
This Week in GNOME explains in their new weekly update:
“Nautilus now supports Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert for copying and pasting files, matching the behavior of other GTK applications, browsers, and file managers like Dolphin and Thunar. These CUA keybindings were previously only functional in Nautilus’s location bar, creating an inconsistency. The addition also benefits users with keyboards that have dedicated copy/paste keys, which typically emit these key combinations. These shortcuts are particularly useful for left-handed users and also allow the same bindings to work across applications, file managers, and terminal emulators, where Ctrl+Shift+C/V are typically required. The Ctrl+V paste shortcut is now also visible in the context menu.”
Some other changes for GNOME in recent days including the GNOME Settings volume levels being better sorted by inputs and outputs, Typesetter being added to Flathub, and work on various GNOME Shell extensions.
