good day dear experts 
on my thinkpad i cannot use ctrll + c and ctrl + v: these combinations are pretty useless: why!?
note: it is a x220!? What can i do here?
any idea - how to find out more - can i find some thing on the console - regarding this issue!?
If you mean on the terminal, Ctrl + C cancels the currently running command Ctrl + Shift + C copies and Shift Insert pastes. Ctrl + V sort of works but on my terminal (Konsole with Zsh) it adds all sorts of what I think are control characters before and after the clipboard contents.
If you mean in general, we will need some more information, such as the desktop environment you are using.
Where are you trying to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V?
In a graphical Desktop Environment (DE), these should normally work (except if you’ve changed the key bindings).
Whereas, in a terminal, Ctrl+C is used to interrupt processes, so—for convenience–Copy and Insert are usually remapped to Shift+Ctrl+C and Shift+Ctrl+V.
EDIT: @MyNameIsRichard was faster 
Today I learnt about Ctrl + Shift + V. I’ll probably stick to Shift + Insert though because of muscle memory.
hello dear friends
awesome - i am really overwhelmed about your replies. Well - the x220 is in office and i am currently not (!) in front of it. But i will test it out later the day and then i will answer you all.
at the moment i am so glad about your ideas & tipps - and i am pretty sure that we can solve the issues.
i will respond later the day
untill then - greetings
otrott 
Here’s another good use of Shift+Ctrl+V: Many text editors (not all, but for example LibreOffice Writer, MarkText, etc.) can paste either formatted or unformatted text from the clipboard.
Ctrl+V usually pastes formatted (if an app can handle that, otherwise unformatted),
Shift+Ctrl+V usually pastes unformatted.
Example in LibreOffice Writer (just copied a sentence from Wikipedia):
Unfortunately, this forum (Discourse) does not handle unformatted pasting, so sometimes you have to remove all the stuff manually:
As you see, it nicely translates to Markdown but doesn’t respect unformatted paste.
hello dear all - hello dear Keesscase
many thanks - you were right. We have two ctrl buttons on the keyboard - and the right one works like expected.
Ctrl + C woks like expected and
Ctrl + V also
and besides Ctrl+P brings up a printer dialog window.
man thanks for your help
btw: this is a awesome forum - i am so glad to be part of this awesome forum
i will mark the thread as solved.
many thanks for all you did!!
greetings
Shouldn’t the left Ctrl work like the right one?
Can it be it’s defective on your keyboard? Or did you reassign it?
On my old Thinkpad, a few years ago, they both did the same.
Yes, I’m in front of a x220 right now. Both CTRL-Keys are doing their job here.
