Working with the Clipboard on Linux
Using the xclip utility,[10] you can integrate your buffers with the Linux system clipboard so you can more easily copy and paste between programs.
First, you have to install xclip. On Ubuntu, use this command:
| $ sudo apt-get install xclip |
Then add some new keybindings to use tmux’s save-buffer and set-buffer commands with xclip.
To copy the current buffer to the system clipboard, add this command to the .tmux.conf file:
| # Prefix Ctrl-C takes what's in the buffer and sends it to system clipboard |
| # via xclip |
| bind C-c run "tmux save-buffer - | xclip -sel clip -i" |
This configures Prefix
Ctrl
-c
so it pipes the current buffer to xclip.
So, you enter Copy ...
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