Working with the Clipboard on Linux
Using the xclip utility,[12] 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 we use tmux’s save-buffer and set-buffer commands with xclip.
To copy the current buffer to the system clipboard, we add this command to our .tmux.conf file:
| | bind C-c run "tmux save-buffer - | xclip -i -sel clipboard" |
This configures Prefix Ctrl-c
so it captures the current buffer and pipes its output to xclip. We then
add this line to our configuration so we can use Prefix Ctrl-v to paste text from the system clipboard into a tmux session:
| | bind C-v ... |
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