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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Making Ctrl+C copy text in gnome-terminal?
Is it possible for me to make Ctrl+C perform a copy command if there is highlighted text in the terminal?
Otherwise, it should retain its normal behavior.
(If there is a terminal that can do this ...
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Progress and speed with 'cp'?
When copying files using cp, is it possible to display the progress and speed of the transfer? Otherwise, is there any alternative command line utility that can achieve this?
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How do I disable middle mouse button click paste?
Is there a way to disable the middle mouse button paste behavior that is here by default on gnome?
I have a sensitive mouse wheel and whenever I scroll texts, sometimes it pastes stuff randomly into ...
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How to copy & paste with VirtualBox from Ubuntu (host) to Windows (guest)?
I have a Windows 7 installed on my laptop.
I installed VirtualBox 4.1.4 with Ubuntu 11.10.
I would like to copy a text from Ubuntu's terminal and paste it in a file on Windows. This doesn't work for ...
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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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A command-line clipboard copy and paste utility?
In Windows I used command-line clipboard copy-and-paste utilities...
pclip.exe and gclip.exe
These were UnixUtils ports for Windows (but they only handled plain text).
There were a couple of ...
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Keyboard shortcut for pasting the primary selection
Is there a standard or conventional keyboard shortcut for pasting the primary selection?
I'd like to select some text and go to another app to paste without trashing my clipboard contents. I'd ...
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How-to copy the contents of a folder to another folder in a different directory using terminal
I would be happy if someone can bring an example syntax for the problem above.
Thank you in advance.
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Why might I want to use a clipboard manager?
I recently saw this poll asking for the "Best Linux Clipboard Manager". What actually is a clipboard manager and in what situations would a clipboard manager be useful?
Are there some differences in ...
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How to pause/resume transfer of large files?
I recently had to copy about 20 GB of data split between about 20 files from my laptop to an external hard drive. Since this operation takes quite a while (at ~560kb/s), I was wondering if there was ...
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Why is Ubuntu's clipboard so hit and miss?
I find that a lot of the time if I copy some text for example and then close the window being copied from, the paste function does not paste anything.
I've noticed this in Ubuntu 9.04 right up until ...
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Is there a copy handling progam available that can queue, pause and resume?
Is there a copy handling progam available for ubuntu? Something similar to Copy Handler on Windows which can queue, pause and resume files being copied?
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How do I copy the whole history of the clipboard to a text file?
I would like to paste my whole clipboard history consisting of words copied (Ctrl+C/by selection) during my reading sessions. I installed programs like Glippy and ClipIt but I couldn't figure out how ...
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Add entries to Nautilus' right-click menu (copy, move to arbitrary directories) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Add options to “Move to” (when you right click on a file)
Assume I want to copy a file from /home/foo/bar/baz to /opt/quuz/dir1/option3. When I try it with ...
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How do I integrate Byobu's copy-buffer with the X clipboard?
I want to be able to copy and paste between Byobu and Firefox without having to use a mouse. I could write the copy buffer to a file and open that file with Gedit but I was wondering if there was a ...
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determining what files a package updates / copying software between machines
How do I determine which files comprise an application (built from source, not from a repo), so I can copy it?
I built an application from source, but because the libraries it needed to build were ...
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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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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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Copy-paste problem [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can not paste into terminal
I'm relatively new to linux.
My question is, why when I do ctrl+C (copy) in Eclipse, and then shift+insert (paste) in command line, there's ...
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Sort files on the filesystem
My MP3 player plays files in the order they have been placed onto the filesystem. Now it seems to Nautilus copies files in some random order, so when listening to an audio book or something I get all ...
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HDD Transfer Speed Reduced when transfering Lots and Lots of Files
When i drag 'n drop/copy, lots of big and small files the transfer speed gets reduced,compared to the speed i get when transfering the files one by one,its that a regular issue with Mechanical ...
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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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Can't copy files [closed]
When I right click on a file or folder the cut/copy options grey out. I tried using:
$ gksu nautilus
But when I tried to change the file permissions it just reverted back. Some times it says
Error ...
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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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Really slow copy speed [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Copying to/from NTFS partitions very slow
Does writing data from ext4 to NTFS partition take a lot of time?? I get speeds upto only 70kB/s (copy). ext4 - ext4 is pretty ...
