How enable ctrl + v paste in redhat?

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I've installed Red Hat 6.5 and see that Ctrl + V does not work. It just prints ^V in the console instead of pasting from the clipboard.

What can be wrong? How can I enable pasting using Ctrl + V?

Nothing is "wrong": Ctrl-v for pasting is an OSX/Windows pattern, you are using Linux. Use Shift-Insert instead... — jasonwryan, Dec 03 '14 at 07:03
Are you using the text mode console or a terminal emulator in the GUI? If a terminal emulator, which one? What made you expect that Ctrl+V would paste from the clipboard? — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Dec 03 '14 at 23:24

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 24 '16 at 13:13

I think the option of enabling Ctrl+V varies from emulator to emulator, but there are easy ways around this most of the time:

Ctrl+ShiftV works as a paste in most terminal emulators I've used. Your mileage may vary, so you can check if your emulator has a similar keyboard shortcut (usually an afterthought in gray font after opening the menu "Edit > Paste") if that doesn't work off the bat.
Highlighting text automatically "copies" it to a magic clipboard independent of your Ctrl+{XCV} buffer. Simply middle-click (press down your mouse wheel, or multiple-finger-tap on your laptop touchpad, depending on how you've enabled middle-click emulation on that) to paste text that is highlighted. (I have a bad habit of lazily highlighting random text as I read things on reddit, and that leaves me with occasional bizarre disjointed surprises when I middle-click into my terminal.)

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