How to copy-paste into Terminal from global clipboard?

[Nik H]

This may be a silly question but I've been unable to figure it out: I quite often want to paste something from a browser into a Terminal in a different vm.

Global, secure copy / paste is Ctrl-Shift-c / Ctrl-Shift-v

In a Terminal window, these shortcuts are mapped to normal copy paste, rather than inter-vm copy pasting so it doesn't work out of the box.

I then changed the global copy paste shortcut to use the windows key. It's explained elsewhere but it means changing guid.conf and adding Mod4-c and Mod4-v for secure copy paste.

This works great (well - after restart)! I tested it in various apps, it does what it should.

However, it still doesn't work on the Terminal application. For whatever reason, Windows-C just types a C and the same for V. Global keyboard shortcuts seem to be ignored while Terminal is active.

Anybody have an idea how to solve this? Thanks!

[Yethal]

Right click into the Terminal window and select Paste. Regular paste via keyboard shortcut doesn't work in terminal windows for some reason

[Zrubi]

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On 12/07/2017 07:33 AM, Nik H wrote:
> This may be a silly question but I've been unable to figure it out:
> I quite often want to paste something from a browser into a
> Terminal in a different vm.
>
> Global, secure copy / paste is Ctrl-Shift-c / Ctrl-Shift-v
>
> In a Terminal window, these shortcuts are mapped to normal copy
> paste, rather than inter-vm copy pasting so it doesn't work out of
> the box.

Shift-Insert is the "magic key" you searching for ;)


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[Grzesiek Chodzicki]

Do the global paste while terminal is in focus then do the right click

07.12.2017 07:45 "Nik H" <nhe...@gmail.com> napisał(a):

> On Dec 7, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Yethal <grzegorz....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
> Right click into the Terminal window and select Paste. Regular paste via keyboard shortcut doesn't work in terminal windows for some reason
>

No, that’s just a regular paste. I want to use the global paste, e.g. paste from one vm to another.

Use case:
I copy something in vm “personal” (this is ctrl-C followed by ctrl-shift-c to copy the vm clipboard to the global clipboard)
I paste it into a terminal in vm Dom0

[Tom Zander]

On Thursday, 7 December 2017 09:29:22 CET Zrubi wrote:
> On 12/07/2017 07:33 AM, Nik H wrote:
> > This may be a silly question but I've been unable to figure it out:
> > I quite often want to paste something from a browser into a
> > Terminal in a different vm.
> >
> > Global, secure copy / paste is Ctrl-Shift-c / Ctrl-Shift-v
> >
> > In a Terminal window, these shortcuts are mapped to normal copy
> > paste, rather than inter-vm copy pasting so it doesn't work out of
> > the box.
>
> Shift-Insert is the "magic key" you searching for ;)

More specifically;
to paste to a VM you use ctrl-shift-v which makes it available to all apps
in that VM.
Followed by shift-insert to paste it to your termnal.

I use konsole, the KDE terminal. It happens to not map ctrl-shift-c/v making
this an out-of-the box experience.

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[Zrubi]

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On 12/07/2017 10:15 AM, Bernhard wrote:

> To insert into a terminal Ctrl-Shift-v and "middle mouse" to drop
> works as well. The question is rather how to copy "out of" a
> terminal (say a link that is to be put in a dispvm browser). Here
> the marking by mouse and Ctrl-Shift-c does *not* work. One has to
> mark it first, then go to the terminal menu, ask "copy" there and
> then do Ctrl-Shift-c. This is annoying. Someone has a shortcut for
> that?

Ctrl+Instert will do the copy task in most terminals.
(Of course you can also reassign these defaults according to your needs)

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