Basic clipboard functionality is storing data and allowing to access it, just like memory functions in calculators. For advanced functionalities use "clipboard-manager" tag.
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Highlight does not copy content in Xterm
I'm trying out Ubuntu 13.04 in VMware 9.02, which it running on desktop that has Ubuntu 12.04LTS, I notice when one highlight text in xterm in 13.04 it doesn't copy the content to the clipboard as it ...
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Why my clipboard have content that I never put there?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 with the KDE environment.
My laptop just shut down from overheating while I was playing minecraft, and when I turned it back on, after a bit, I pressed Ctrl+V and it paste ...
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Ubuntu Clipboard to Windows Clipboard
I installed Evernote using wine in Ubuntu 13.04 when I copy and paste highly formatted text (like web site content which include images and text) to Evernote it simply paste it as text. But copying ...
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Configuring gmusicbrowser to copy now playing to X clipboard
I'm trying to get gmusicbrowser to copy song information to my X.org clipboard with the Now Playing plugin. For on song change, in the plugin's configuration, I have
echo "%a - %t (from %l, %y)" | ...
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How to make Ubuntu's Copying and Pasting websites work similar to Windows?
I am using Evernote on Windows its really good for taking notes so I installed the same Evernote on Ubuntu using Wine ([PlayOnLinux][2]). In windows when I copy(ctrl + c) a web site and past(ctrl + v) ...
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What is the default clipboard manager in Xubuntu?
I don't care about panel plugins or programs such as xclip or xsel.
I just want to know : when I cut or paste something on Xubuntu, what program handles it?
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Pasting previous text from clipoboard
I have problem with clipboard. Best explanation will be by example:
I want to send to my friend two texts: AAA and BBB.
I make copy/paste of first one. Then I'm making copy/past of second one and I'm ...
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How to clean the clipboard?
I am really used to Windows and the problem of the clipboard retaining information which a third party could see, which thing actually happened to me on a link off of BBC.co.uk.
Therefore I found ...
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Solve the multiple copy and paste clipboard problem
The multiple clipboards for copy and paste are driving me crazy. Is there some way to make ctrl-c, mouse highlight and menu dropdown->copy all do the same thing so I don't get something different ...
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Is it possible to key-bind the pasting of the x-clipboard? How?
I was wondering if it is possible to add a keybind to paste the x-clipboard in Lubuntu.
(primary selection)
If possible to keybind it, would you still be able to use the middle-click too?
Is there ...
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how to restore proper X clipboard behaviour (shift+insert) in 12.10?
Start with ubuntu 12.10, i can't select something in the terminal, move to another window and press shift+insert anymore.
Is this a new configuration that is being rolled out? or a regression bug?
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Ctrl + V will not work if I close the application I copied text from
I always have to keep an application open I copied text from to paste the text somewhere. In fact the copied text will be saved to Klipper (if Klipper is on) after it has been copied. But why cannot a ...
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Clipboard manager with “history paste” support?
I am looking for a clipboard manager, but I don't want one that just keeps a list so I can select an item to bring it to the front of the clipboard, nah, that's too easy.
What I am looking for is a ...
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Clipboard Images & Word Office 2007 under Wine
Via terminal I can issue command & send screenshot to clipboard:
gnome-screenshot -c
This clipboard image is available for Libre Office as well as google docs in Chrome...however it's NOT ...
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Copy text in Libre Office Writer
If I have a Writer document that is a numbered list of instructions, and I highlight a chunk of text, or even just a single word in a line of the list, and copy it to the clipboard, go to another ...
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copy text on unselect, not on select
Most of my copy/paste needs are spent replacing text.
I love the middle-mouse copy/paste feature of *nix systems, and I use it a lot, but it is annoying that, when pasting, I always have to click ...
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Read QR and other bar codes from screen
I'm looking for a simple way to read bar codes, data matrix and QR codes.
The scenario: I have it on my PC screen (website, photo, PDF, webcam), want the contained text
I'm on KDE, Kubuntu Precise, ...
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Save last “copy” from clipboard to file
I am able to copy a massive string of text but unable to paste it anywhere without the program crashing.
So, I wonder: How can I fetch it from the clipboard via CLI and save it to a file instead?
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Any linux version of clipboardfusion with macros
I have Clipboardfusion installed on my Windows computer and it has a macro feature that lets me create c# or vb macros that it will execute on the copied text in the clipboard.
Is there anything like ...
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How to copy many files to clipboard from the command line?
Suppose you have different files in a directory: one.txt, two.jpg, three.pdf, four.jpg etc. You want to copy them all to clipboard from the command line. Something like copyclipboard *. How do you do ...
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What is the command line equivalent of copying a file to clipboard?
What is the command line equivalent to pressing CTRL+C over a file in the file manager so that the file (not the filename) is copied to the clipboard?
A situation where this can be useful and fast, ...
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Disabling Clipboard completely in Ubuntu - Openbox environment
We are working on a project of Ubuntu customization with openbox. For some specific requirement, we need to disable the clipboard completely in the system. I have searched a lot over openbox and gnome ...
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What utility is like Ten Clips, providing an enumerated clipboard?
A very useful (Windows) utility I use is TenClips - http://www.paludour.net/TenClips.html
It allows you to create enumerated clipboards/emacs-like buffers easily using ctrl + f1, ctrl + f2, ctrl + ...
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Pasting from vim in terminal to Google Docs (Firefox + Vimperator) - need to understand
I had some trouble with copy-pasting text from vim in terminal to Google Docs (aka Drive) document (hereafter GDd) in FF browser (with Vimperator).
Note:
I have a file opened in Vim 7.2 in ...
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Copy a file to remote server(very Complicated)
I want to copy a file from my Ubuntu Desktop(user:vverma) to a server named fb3, please guide me regarding how to scp this?
In order to reach fb3, i have to follow these steps:-
ssh to server1 as ...
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Copy terminal result from one window to another
I often have many terminals open when working (GNOME Terminal 3.4.1.1, Bash). Quite often I need to copy the results of one terminal into another. An common scenario:
terminalA> pwd
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How do I copy files from Windows partition to my Ubuntu partition [closed]
I am dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu and I have many important files on my Windows OS. I've been trying to copy the files from windows to my Ubuntu home directory but the paste option is disabled ...
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Is there any way for selecting text in Ubuntu server?
I'm running ubuntu server virtually . I can't select any text with the mouse since we all know there is no mouse in the server version. so how can I select particular lines of text in Ubuntu server?
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Replace multiple files with one file
Imagine my directory looked like this:
./original.txt
./blah.1.txt
./blah.2.txt
[...]
./blah.999999.txt
I essentially want to replace every blah.* file with the contents of original. My initial ...
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copy from main system and paste in vbox [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to copy & paste from Ubuntu to Windows?
How can i copy the information from my main Ubuntu system and paste that information in the VirtualBox System ? I have ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 External HD Issues
I am experiencing one more problem with my Ubuntu 12.04...
I have an External HD (500GB) which is NTFS formatted. I connected this HD on my Ubuntu 12.04 and copied some files. When I connected the HD ...
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How do I pipe terminal standard output (stdout) to the clipboard?
For example,
Say I want to list the contents of a folder and directly paste them into a chat window for a friend to see.
I realize I could do ls > filename.txt to create a file (filename.txt) ...
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How to create unified clipboard
Working with clipboard can be like a hell. Sometimes Ctrl+C just don't work and if you copy some text on, say, web browser you can't normally paste in somewhere else. Especially between Terminal and ...
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Clipboard history: Need to get something far back
I really need to get some text I copied earlier on today (I have probably copied stuff hundreds of times after that).
My computer has been running from the time the text was copied. I do not have any ...
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Why is context-menu copy greyed out in terminal (12.04 x64)?
I used to be able to mouse select text in a terminal window, right click it, select copy, then paste it into Gedit or whatever.
But in recent months that 'copy' option has been greyed out. I can't ...
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Large file Copy speed issue [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Copy to USB memory stick really slow?
I have looked at the various email regarding speed of copying large files and it has been coming on for a long time.
I have a USB ...
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Copy Paste on a mac
I have installed on my mac Ubuntu with VirtualBox. I would like to copy informations displayed on a terminal and then paste it on a 'edit-file' on my mac or wherever on my mac. It doesn't seems to ...
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Copy-paste from keepass2 to Midori (or WebkitGTK applications in general), on Linux
Running keepass 2.18, which is Mono-based, on Xubuntu 12.04,
I can't seem to copy-paste usernames or passwords from keepass2 to Midori.
I can copy from keepass2 then paste into other applications ...
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copying the Launcher image into a file
How would I copy the Launcher image, or any application window, so that I can paste it into an image application that saves to a file that can be inserted into an askubuntu.com question? Which image ...
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How to make work Indicator-Chars app?
I downloaded Indicator-Char and unzipped the files. I added the characters there I wanted perfectly. When I run the python script it loads the daemon and I can see this characters. But the problem is ...
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Filesystem filling up due to large uvcydnctrl-udev.log file
Now my installation of Ubuntu costs me more than 100 GB of the hard drive space. And whenever I try fslint and fdupes, they say Permission denied to delete the duplicates. Please help me guys.
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How do I backup (clone) a full hd to a specific partition on a bigger hd?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04LTS and I am trying to recover files off a failing HD that is 400GB. The drive I am trying to copy to is 500 GB but I have Ubuntu installed on the same drive.
See the ...
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Copying (usb drive to usb drive) suddenly slowed down. Ubuntu Server 12.04
I just got an old computer from a friend and I am using it as a mediatomb server. Because the computers hard drives are rather small and I don't have the money for newer ones I am temporarily using 2 ...
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Vmware Ubuntu 11.04 freezes when extracting large files
I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 on Vmware 8. Everything works fine and I have installed some programs.
The problem I have faced now is when I am extracting a ~500MB bz2 using bunzip2 in console, after ...
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Pasting text into keyring access prompt
I have quite a few keys I manage with Seahorse, and the passwords to them are quite complex, and kept in a safe method from which I must paste them(they are 64 characters). When I attempt to use these ...
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tar command fails on bigsize(191 GB) file
In Ubuntu, tar command fails while copying bigfile of size 191GB from disk to tape device and gives below error.
tar -cvf /dev/st0 /mtpt/ntfs
in /mtpt/ntfs, we have files of size 2gb to 5gb and ...
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How to best copy large files to an sd card? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Copying files to SD card not saving
When copying large (or even files of a few KB) to an sd card from ubuntu 10.10, the files appear to be there but when i access the ...
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copy paste like FIFO
I want to copy and paste FIFO type in clipboard.
first copy 5 items.
next, paste (ctrl+ v), again paste (ctrl+ v ) and next item is pasted. again click paste, next item pasted... previous clipboard ...
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Not able to copy files to USB
Recently I am encountering a problem while copying files to Pen drives. The copying as it reaches the end it stalls and continues for a long time. The problem occurs at the end of copying. Can anybody ...
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How to use a common clipboard for vim and Unity?
On my mac I solved the problem this way:
:set clipboard=unnamed
On my debian I use the + clipboard:
:set clipboard=unnamedplus
However the methods above don't work on my Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity ...
