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
Questions tagged [clipboard]
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Access Unix Clipboard
We have a Linux server, and there are multiple users (thus multiple accounts) on that server. So logically, there would be different clipboards for different users.
My question is: just like in Windows we can have a clipboard viewer, how can I see…
maggi
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Does non-X Linux have a clipboard?
I know that Linux Desktops with a windowing manager such as X11-based systems have a system clipboard, but if not using a windowing manager, is there any clipboard?
For example, in Vim, the system clipboard can be accessed via the + register, but…
Tyler Durden
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How to make a file with content from the clipboard without opening the file?
Copy the contents of a file into the clipboard without displaying its contents
In the above post they provide a solution (xsel -b
alhelal
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Where is the clipboard file located?
Where in the file system is the file containing the content of the clipboard? If there is no file, then how is the clipboard maintained?
Rohan
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Shortcut based clipboard management
I am aware of clipboard managers like copyq's existence, but using them requires clicking around and takes time. I woudl like something purely keyboard based, for using inside terminals.
What I have in mind is replicating shell functionality for…
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Where is clipboard location?
Somebody said the contents in clipboard will be lost if I close the application where is the copy sauce, but in fact, if I right click on the selected texts from an application, click copy, now if I close the application where I copy from, You can…
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How to Block Clipboard Copy & paste in Linux GUI
As admin i want to block the clipboard access in Linux GUI. No user can copy data from terminal or other thing.
In simple terms it means just block the copy option.
Sanjay Nigam
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Copy remote-server's CLI output to clipboard on the client
How to copy remote-server's CLI output to clipboard on the client?
e.g.
Windows Terminal →→→SSH→→→ Ubuntu
(copy to (CLI
clipboard ←←←←←←←←←←←←←← output
here) here)
TaihouKai
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Output command to clipboard?
Noob(ish) to Linux here, and trying to pick up new/useful tricks; I was wondering if there's some way to send the output of a command straight to the clipboard?
Something similar to (pseudo-code):
dircolors --print-database > clipboard
J. Scott Elblein
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