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aluser

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Registered: 2011-01-16

Posts: 119

Synchronize clipboard across all TTY sessions?

I'm trying to paste a short snippet of code into one of the tty sessions command line (those terminal sessions shown after pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1, F2, etc..) I'd like to use Ctrl  +v and Ctrl +P to paste across an X session and a terminal one. I don't know much about how clipboard are handled in arch and linux in general, but I want to know if its possible to achieve this. Thanks in advance!

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Synchronize clipboard across all TTY sessions?

I don't think you can do this easily. One way to do this is through screen, and xsel/xclip. Just pipe the text you want copied to xsel, and then open another tty, use screen -x to connect to the already connected screen session (in the other tty), and type xsel at the command prompt.

Don't know if there are other ways though.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,354

Re: Synchronize clipboard across all TTY sessions?

I don't know much about how clipboard are handled in arch and linux in general, but I want to know if its possible to achieve this. Thanks in advance!

Go and find out, then. Google saves your time and the time of everyone else. Please do not post questions like this without doing some basic searching first in future.

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