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Copy & Paste between terminal(s) and application windows in i3

rated 0 times [ 13] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 43851 / 2 Years ago, thu, march 10, 2022, 8:09:24

I have recently installed the i3 tiling window manager [1] on my Ubuntu system and I'm trying to figure out how to copy & paste between various terminal and application windows.

How can this be done?

[1] http://i3wm.org

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answered 2 Years ago impisaso · Accepted Answer

Some terminals use CTRL+SHIFT+C and CTRL+SHIFT+V to copy and paste, while others use CTRL+ALT+C and CTRL+ALT+V, like urxvt (See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rxvt-unicode#Cut_and_paste ).

For i3wm, try using a clipboard manager, like clipit.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install clipit

Add exec --no-startup-id clipit to ~/.i3/config to start it automatically.