If it can be pasted in xterm but not in a browser you are probably setting the wrong clipboard. You can use xsel to view the different clipboards to see which it is going to (and to copy between them).
You can configure xterm's default clipboard, look at the selectToClipboard resource and probably others. If you use both xsel and OSC 52 in tmux they are likely to interfere with each other so best pick one. If you have complaints about X probably best take them to the X lists, although no doubt they have heard this before. On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, 23:26 Eric Swenson, <e...@swenson.org> wrote: > So I tried this again after verifying that I was accessing my VPS from an > xterm window, with "ssh -X", and that my tmux on the VPS had the proper > set-clipboard setting (external), that "tmux info | grep Ms" showed the > proper string, I bound copy-mode C-w as such: > > bind -Tcopy-mode MouseDragEnd1Pane send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel 'xsel -i' > > and things are acting differently -- although not yet what I want. First > of all, when I'm running irssi in the tmux session, I can select a URL (the > use case I want to work) with the mouse, and have it immediately get > copied. I can then immediately paste it with a middle-mouse click in tmux. > I can also (much more importantly) go to a Terminal window on my local > Ubuntu machine, and use the middle-mouse button to paste it in the shell. > However, what I really want to be able to do is to paste that URL into a > browser address bar. That doesn't work. A yucky workaround is to paste the > URL into a terminal shell, and then use Control-Shift-C to copy it to the > *real* system clipboard, and then I can paste it into the address bar of > the browser. > > But it shouldn't be this difficult. On macOS, I can simply select the URL > (in the irssi/tmux/ssh remote session) and paste it directly into my > browser's address bar. > > Given that I am now managing to get the string copied such that I can > paste it in a terminal shell (didn't use to be able to do that, so > progress), why can X paste it into the GNOME Terminal, but not make it to > whatever system clipboard is necessary to allow me to paste it into a > browser (Brave, like Chrome) browser? > > -- Eric > > On 6/6/23 14:15, Eric Swenson wrote: > > No I haven't. I'll look for that plugin and try it. Thanks. > > I'm wondering, however, whether my issue has something to do with SSH > (remote access). I just tried an experiment: > > From xterm on my Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system, I proved to myself that X > windows copy/paste worked fine. Then I started up tmux, and tried selecting > with mouse and pasting in the tmux window. That worked fine too. Then I > exited tmux, and SSH'ed to my VPS. I tried X windows style copy/paste, and > this worked fine (not running tmux remotely yet). Then I started up tmux > (the use case that I need to get working) from my SSH session on the VPS. > Now, copy/paste dosn't work any more. tmux enters copy mode when I use the > mouse, highlights the text when I select it with the mouse, gives me a > popup menu that offers to copy the line, and when I select that menu item > and release the mouse, and try to paste the result, I get nothing. > > So it is the combination of SSH and tmux that prevents tmux from letting > me copy/paste. Does that suggest anything? > > -- Eric > On 6/6/23 14:09, cheyrn wrote: > > Have you tried setting up the tmux-yank plugin? That is what I am using to > copy to the clipboard, together with xsel. > On 6/6/2023 2:03 PM, Eric Swenson 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/a762d782-bc3b-71f8-e721-c1f41167694d%40swenson.org > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/a762d782-bc3b-71f8-e721-c1f41167694d%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/758f6195-9faf-e618-b9bc-aa319354cf9e%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/758f6195-9faf-e618-b9bc-aa319354cf9e%40gmail.com?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/4ca40301-f150-d32a-ded7-eebb4f3e5fba%40swenson.org > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/4ca40301-f150-d32a-ded7-eebb4f3e5fba%40swenson.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tmux-users" group. 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