September 22, 2024

Copy from xterm to clipboard

Edit at the bottom.

Add:

! Copy from xterm to clipboard
xterm*selectToClipboard: true

to ~/.Xresources. If you don’t have that file, create it.

Now to copy from xterm press the key Ctrl and the middle button of the mouse at the same time, keep both pressed, select “Select to Clipboard” from the list.

Source: man page of xterm.

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Edit February 2025

That did not work consistently for me.

I did not manage to find why so.

Instead, I quit XTerm. I am now trying Simple Terminal (st) and sakura.

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