Copy & Paste between terminal(s) and application windows in i3
Some terminals use CTRL+SHIFT+C
and CTRL+SHIFT+V
to copy and paste, while others use CTRL+ALT+C
and CTRL+ALT+V
, like urxvt
(See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rxvt-unicode#Cut_and_paste ).
For i3wm
, try using a clipboard manager, like clipit
.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install clipit
Add exec --no-startup-id clipit
to ~/.i3/config
to start it automatically.
I have just had success using the middle mouse button
with xterm in i3 to copy from a remote terminal to firefox. Use the middle mouse button
to copy and paste.
You have had good answers above, I will just add a detail. As a default, the clipboard of each container is emptied when the container is closed. So if you copy some text from a terminal, close the terminal, and paste the text in another terminal - it will not work, because the clipboard will have been emptied in the meanwhile.