Questions tagged [clipboard]
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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Yanking to the global clip board from the command line in Vi editing-mode
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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Run a script when Clipboard is changed
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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QEMU clipboard not working
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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Why does the "cp" command not work with pasted directory path from "pwd | pbcopy" command?
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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Ubuntu 22 host, Mac OS guest running in qemu: copy/paste from ubuntu <--> Mac os not working
I am running mac os sequioa guest VM on Ubuntu 22 host using this command:
/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
-name macos-big-sur,process=macos-big-sur \
-machine q35,hpet=off,smm=off,vmport=off,accel=kvm \...
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Copy to clipboard some previous lines of bash terminal with keyboard only
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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'pbcopy' or something similar to copy the command to the clipboard literally
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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How to open a directory from current location using lf and other terminal hygene
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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Assign variable a value and copy this value to the clipboard
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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Paste the value of a shell expression into Vim
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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Why does pasting something with angle brackets into GNU Screen not work in Alacritty?
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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Copy/paste via virt-manager to a kvm text mode guest
I have done what's mentioned in virt-manager copy paste functionality to the vm
Environment: Ubuntu 22.04 server (VM) and Kubuntu 22.04 (virt-manager)
Installed spice-vdagent on the VM and spice-...
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How to debug unreliable middle-button copy/paste (selection does not always update)
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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xsel like a clipboard manager: keep clipboard content for future use
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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tool or shortcut for copying part of the terminal [duplicate]
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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