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GNOME's Nautilus File Manager Finally Supporting Ctrl+Insert & Shift+Insert (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev
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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.

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's gnome, it was likely broken deliberately in the name of "simplicity"

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

The sad thing is that this is true. They removed entirely all settings related to dash in name of simplicity.