Unable to configure custom application paste keystroke for Terminator

[Nicholas Hinds]

I use Terminator as my terminal program, which is a python application. Its executable is /usr/bin/terminator, which links to /usr/share/terminator/terminator. However, I can't use either of these in Diodon's app-paste-keybindings preference to make it send Ctrl+Shift+V to paste.

I tried ['/usr/bin/gnome-terminal|<Shift><Ctrl>V', '/usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server|<Shift><Ctrl>V', '/usr/bin/terminator|<Shift><Ctrl>V', '/usr/share/terminator/terminator|<Shift><Ctrl>V'] but this did not work.

It seems like when Terminator is running, the X Window's executable comes back as /usr/bin/python2.7, since its executable is actually a script with python as its interpreter. Diodon looks at /proc/<pid>/exe, sees /usr/bin/python2.7, and uses that as the application path for the preference.

I can add /usr/bin/python2.7 to my app-paste-keybindings, and that works perfectly for Terminator, however it has the unintended side effect of sending Ctrl+Shift+V to any other python applications when I try to paste into them.

I would like to be able to specify individual python applications in the app-paste-keybindings preference.

Perhaps allowing a string like '/usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/terminator|<Shift><Ctrl>V' to mean "The /usr/bin/python2.7 executable whose first argument is /usr/bin/terminator" would solve this?

[Oliver Sauder (sao)]

Thanks for the bug report.

This is though really tricky to fix - especially as the code will need to be generic for all cases as any executable could have a path as an argument. I will have to look into this a bit more to see whether it is solvable in an easy manner.

A workaround for you at this point would be to enable "Use primary selection" in Preferences. This way instant paste will also work with Terminator app.

[Nicholas Hinds (hindsn)]

Unfortunately I use the primary selection as well as the clipboard when I'm working, and I use them independently, so I can't use the workaround.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

[Ricky Seltzer (rickyseltzer)]

Me too. Thanks for the question and for the answer...