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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How to always paste with Shift Insert the text copied by Ctrl C or browser?
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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xterm -- paste selection as lines, not as single buffer [duplicate]
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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Copy/Pasting files via GUI is very slow
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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How to preserve creation time when copying [duplicate]
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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Can Xfce's Clipman let you cycle the clipboard?
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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How to copy and paste from macOS host into VMWare virtual machine running ArchLinux and Hyprland?
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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Recompiling Vim with +clipboard on Arch Linux (DWM/X11)
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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JMeter on my Sequoia - Clipboard does not work
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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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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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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