I have been using putty to connect to one of my client server,here the problem is that copy and paste doesn't work. When I was on windows it used to work and now I want the same thing on ubuntu 13.10.
You might try adding a Shift to your commands, so Ctrl+Shift+C / V. That is how copy pasting is done in the terminal (Ctrl+C is used to abort terminal commands). Alternatively you can try pasting by pressing Enter or the middle mouse button.
In Ubuntu, you may wish to consider not using PuTTY at all: you can simply ssh using a terminal. For example, if you want to connect to test.server.com, you could simply type:
ssh test.server.com
If your username is different on the remote system, you can specify it by using this syntax:
ssh remote_username@remote_host
More advanced options are described in the man pages.
answered May 22 '13 at 9:33
Ctrl+Shift+Insert for paste, worked for Ubuntu 12.04 and putty
I found that selecting (left click and drag) would copy, and middle mouse (tap down on scroll wheel) would paste. It worked for me, when adding the shift did not.
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With the mouse left-click, hold, and drag cursor to select+copy text to clipboard. Paste with center mouse wheel/button.
You can configure the copy/paste behavior on Window → Selection as below.
On my Ubuntu 16 laptop, without a wheel mouse, I ran into lots of difficulties attempting to paste text into Putty, until I tried:
- copying the text in another application;
- leaving the text selected;
- shifting to the Putty window;
- clicking Shift+Insert
I used Ctrl and right click and it worked.
ssh test.server.comin the terminal. The more advanced options are described in the man pages: manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/ssh.1.html – Gerhard Burger May 22 '13 at 9:09