Dealing with 3 clipboards here... even ignoring the tmux clipboard, the X vs Gnome (terminology? - the one you refer to as the *real* system clipboard) clipboard confusion has been a bad Linux user experience problem for a long time now. Are you aware that you can usually use middle-mouse-click to paste from the X clipboard directly?
On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 at 08:27, Eric Swenson <e...@swenson.org> wrote: > I forgot to send this before the last message I sent to the list: > > Ah. There is some interference here. The use case I was *really* trying to > get working was copying text from an irssi client running within a tmux > session on a remote host accessed with ssh. > > It would appear that the popup is coming from irssi. If I use another > tmux window (not running irssi), I can select text with a mouse, and have > it immediately "copied" (somewhere) when I release. However, it still > never makes it to my system clipboard (local system). > > Let me re-check everything in my tmux configuration on the remote system. > I'd really not like to be required to use xterm and X (as well as X > forwarding over SSH), but I will do that if necessary. > > <I've done the above and sent the results in my previous message to the > list> > > -- Eric > On 6/6/23 14:13, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > tmux doesn't work like you describe. If you select text with the mouse it > should copy as soon as you release. The only copy menu items are to copy a > word or a line. Are you sure you are actually copying using tmux and not > the terminal's own tools? Do you see the text you copied if you enter > buffer mode or use list-buffers? > > You will not be able to get xsel or xclip working from another host > without X11 forwarding, you could try that but OSC 52 is usually easier. > > If you are sure you are copying using tmux, then: > > - Did you restart X or reload the .Xresources with xrdb before starting > xterm? > > - Did you follow the steps in the clipboard page quick start section to > make sure everything is set up properly? > > > > On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, 22:03 Eric Swenson, <e...@swenson.org> wrote: > >> I'm trying to simply highlight the text with the mouse -- which does >> highlight, and then use the "Copy ..." contexts menu that comes up to copy >> to the system clipboard. This works fine on my Mac -- just not on Linux. >> >> I've also tried entering copy mode, selecting the start and end via >> keyboard -- and that also doesn't work. >> >> -- Eric >> On 6/6/23 13:56, Nicholas Marriott wrote: >> >> How are you copying from tmux? >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, 21:56 Eric Swenson, <e...@swenson.org> wrote: >> >>> I did. That was where I found all the references to binding keys for >>> xsel. >>> >>> However, I looked at it again, and found the section where it said that >>> xterm supported OSC 52. So I configured the required: >>> >>> XTerm*disallowedWindowOps: 20,21,SetXprop >>> >>> in my ~/.Xresources, and fired up xterm. It has the same problem. >>> Nothing I copy out of my tmux session makes it to the system clipboard. >>> >>> -- Eric >>> >>> On 6/6/23 13:50, Nicholas Marriott wrote: >>> >>> Read the clipboard page on the tmux wiki. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, 21:49 Eric Swenson, <e...@swenson.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks. Google searches for "OSC 52" AND terminal AND "Ubuntu 22.04 >>>> LTS" >>>> don't turn up anything. Do you know that such a terminal program exists >>>> for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS? >>>> >>>> -- Eric >>>> >>>> On 6/6/23 13:46, Nicholas Marriott wrote: >>>> > terminal which supports OSC 52 >>>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tmux-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tmux-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/3720337d-f987-aae6-999e-a9419f34a2e1%40swenson.org > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/3720337d-f987-aae6-999e-a9419f34a2e1%40swenson.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tmux-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tmux-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/CAAqsAtTnQBJNC626RKpHWRO2s-rjK96vqyTX0JPj%2B1wicWA7Zw%40mail.gmail.com.
