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A clipboard is a temporary storage, mostly related to text, from where contents can be pasted to a new/other location. Use this tag for questions that specifically involve problems with putting material in, or getting material out of the clipboard

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I'm using Linux Mint and I want Shift Insert to paste anything copied by Ctrl C or from a web browser action (notable use case: clicking to copy GitHub repo URL). I know there's all the PRIMARY/...
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I'm not sure if this is something in my config, or a change in xterm. In the past, I would select three lines of text, for example, pwd cd bin pwd and when I paste them, I would get three separate ...
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Why is my transfer speed slow when backing up my minecraft folders? I'm just trying to back up my minecraft servers on my home hand built desktop server. However, when I copy paste from my internal ...
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I want to preserve Access, Modify and Birth timestamps when copying files. I tried the following flags. rsync --atimes --times --crtimes --archive However I get an error that crtimes is not supported....
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I use Clipman - xfce4-clipman-plugin. I sometimes copy two items and want to paste them both, one then the other. I would expect to be able to paste one (ctrl + v), press some keyboard combo to tell ...
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I'm running ArchLinux in a virtual machine in VMWare. I've open-vm-tools installed but I'm unable to copy from macOS host and paste into Hyprland. How can I achieve this?
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I use Arch Linux + DWM on the X Window System. I can't copy from Vim to an external application, and the vim --version command returns -xterm_clipboard. As I understand it, I need to recompile my Vim ...
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I have installed JMeter version 5.6.3 on my Sequoia 15.2 Mac laptop. Everything works fine except the clipboard. I can't copy and paste anything into the JMeter GUI. It's running under JDK 17.
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I am using Arch, bash and gnome terminal. All are up to date with the very latest software versions. I wish to bind ctrl+c to yank the current line on the command line to the global clipboard, which ...
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I know that the clipboard is not a function of the Linux kernel but a feature of the desktop. And there is no "location" where the content in the clipboard is saved. Clipboard is saved in ...
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I have Debian 12 (Gnome on Wayland) as my host OS and the same Debian 12 as guest (via tty, no GUI). Using virt-manager and qemu-kvm for managing VMs. Tried installing spice-vdagent on guest but it is ...
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I ran pwd | pbcopy command in Terminal on my MacBook Pro to copy the working directory to the clipboard. The working directory looks like this: /Users/JohnSmith/PycharmProjects/100 Days of Code - The ...
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Let's say you do ls -al in a Bash shell in Debian or Ubuntu and get: drwxrwxrwt 95 root root 12288 Sep 28 2024 tmp drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Sep 28 2024 usr <-- how to copy this to ...
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echo $(( 1 + 2 )) | pbcopy This will copy 3 to the clipboard. But how is it possible, the same way, to copy the literal echo $(( 1 + 2 )) string to the clipboard?
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I like using the command line but I find myself falling back on the GUI and mouse. Is there a way to open a bash terminal in the current location you're navigated to in lf? Navigating to a directory ...
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I believe this is very simple, but I haven't figured it out myself. How is it possible to assign variable a value and copy this value to the clipboard in a really concise way? That is, something like ...
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I need to make the text returned by echo $(which bash) available for pasting in a text file opened in Vim. The cause of my confusion is that it seems there are at least three clipboards: system ...
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pasting this into screen wg pubkey < ~/.ssh/wireguard.t520.private.key > ~/.ssh/wireguard.t520.public.key .. results in this: ~/.ssh/wireguard.t520.private.key > ~/.ssh/wireguard.t520.public....
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I used to love the select text -> paste immediately with middle button. But recently it has become very buggy for me: pasting seems to work a bit, then holds onto an old selection, and continues ...
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I'd like to run xsel as background process to keep clipboard content for future use. I run it in openbox startup script like that: xsel -b -k But when I select something with Ctrl-C and close ...
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I apologize for the vagueness of this question but I saw this tool over 4 years ago at this point. I remember working with a colleague at one point who knew a bash tool or shortcut that allowed him to ...
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OS: Arch linux (linux-6.8.1.arch1-1) WM: Hyprland When I run echo 'hello' | wl-copy, I get the following output: echo "hello" | wl-copy Usage: file [-bcCdEhikLlNnprsSvzZ0] [--apple] [--...
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I am using: ranger version: ranger-master Python version: 3.11.8 (main, Feb 12 2024, 14:50:05) [GCC 13.2.1 20230801] Locale: en_US.UTF-8 When I invoke yank name using yn, nothing happens. I use Arch ...
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I have to report some logs from some of the servers in our infrastructure which I have limited permissions on. Every time I copy 1000 lines of logs and paste it into Slack, I can't do scp from the ...
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As I know, Windows and Gnome clipboard manager can 'saves' pictures in clipboard manager. Is there a way to do something like that in Plasma?
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I press the left button of my mouse and drag. This way I can select up to one display-size piece of text in Xterm and then copy it (I set up to be able doing it with Ctrl+Shift+C). However, when I ...
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Running I3 without a desktop environment on Debian 12. My terminal is Alacritty and my shell is bash. I am unable to copy into what I assume is the secondary selection clipboard using the default ...
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How can I copy all the text in a tmux pane? Pressing Ctrl + b and ] I can select a portion of text, but it is cumbersome to scroll all the way to the top in a long pane. Is there an easier way to ...
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I use Ubuntu 20.04. I have read that Linux uses two clipboards: copy/paste using a mouse context menu copy/paste using keys: ctrl + c/ctrl + v Here is my example usage (actions are performed in the ...
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It's as if there are two different system clipboards (stash places for copied text), with two different ways of accessing them. I've noticed this for quite some time but never been able to narrow it ...
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I am not sure if the clipboard manager works as that shell interpreter in the sense we select one and only one to use in an interactive login shell (i.e., the terminal). If so, I wonder how to find ...
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I'm extremely new to both Linux and writing any sort of code. I've been setting up my workstation on a Fedora OS. I'm trying to streamline my process as much as possible, but I've run into a couple ...
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I've been delving into a bizarre behavior of the X clipboard on my Linux setup. I initially copied an image from a web browser, which I later identified to be in JPG format when I saved the file. But ...
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I have a single line of about 30000 characters (and no newline) in my clipboard. I want to put that into a file. I tried the following command in a GNOME terminal (Ubuntu 20.04): cat > file.ext ...
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I had Cygwin and its X-Windows installed on my Windows 10 laptop. On all of my Windows computers (Acer, EliteBook, some Dell brand, and others), the Windows 10 and X-Windows clipboard buffers were ...
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Is it possible to copy a text from one terminal and input it into another without selecting it? More precisely, within the same terminal window, I can kill the text line by CTRL-U and then yank the ...
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Kitty terminal has a feature where one can run a python script that captures text via regex and allows copying directly to clipboard (see https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/hints/) The matches ...
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I am using openbox as my window manager. When I copy and paste using Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v from one application into another, it transfers the text formatting together with the text. I have to use ...
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I've been trying to look for an option to copy and paste into/from my Debian KVM/QEMU virtual machine without giving the VM access to the host clipboard, and without the host having access to the VMs ...
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I recently installed an alpine-3.17 VM using virtualbox 7. I also installed the guest additions and are able to map shared folders. But it seems that I cannot copy-and-paste from the host OS. I copied ...
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I was horrified to reboot Debian Buster after a recent update to find that there is a log of previous copy-and-pastes, including passwords. Isn't that kind of thing supposed to live only in the RAM? A ...
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I have many markdown files which are hardwrapped to 80 characters. I would like to copy these to paste into textareas (xclip -sel clipboard < file), but want them to wordwrap normally. This is ...
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geeqie 2.0.1-4 mate-desktop 1.26.0-1 Linux 6.1.5-arch2-1 The geeqie image viewer has a menu item 'copy path to clipboard'. Is this 'clipboard' the global clipboard, so that I can, say, paste the path ...
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I've got zsh 5.8.1 running on Ubuntu 22.04. When I've got some text on the prompt and I type Ctrl+u, it clears the line as expected. However, when I then type Ctrl+y, it only displays $ ^Y What ...
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There are 2 kind of clipboards on my os (manjaro i3). Xclip, which keeps the last selected text, and the regular clipboard which must be explicitly copied. I have noticed urxvt copies selected text in ...
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Unfortunately I need to revisit my question from five years ago: How do I sanitize the copy/paste buffer? There is still no answer to this. I'm using CopyQ as a clipboard manager now, and it works ...
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I'll be editing files, actively using a keyboard and sometimes a mouse, especially to switch windows and such. My programs open under edit suddenly have syntax errors which, ultimately come from ...
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I would like to copy the content of a file (string) to my ram memory. As in copy of a text so I can do paste later. Example: I have a file name: my_pub_key.pub and inside there's big amount of chars. ...
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When using MobaXTerm on Windows, I ssh into a Linux server, start vim and I can right-click into the terminal window and can choose Paste and it pastes text from the Windows clipboard. When I use git ...
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As far as I've understood, a terminal emulator is a GUI-based program which gives me a terminal-like viewport and allows me to interact with it just like I'd do with a terminal, except that it has all ...
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