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I shift click to select text then shift-C-c to copy it to the system clipboard, but I can't do this and scroll to copy large bodies of text and can't do it using only keys either.

I'm running kali 2020.4, zsh, tmux 3.1c, and xterm-256color (in tmux it is screen). I have downloaded xclip and xsel. I killed my tmux session before I made any changes to .tmux.conf.

Some of the options I tried gave me this when I started up tmux, which I had to C-c in order to do anything:

/home/zander/.tmux.conf:17: usage: bind-key [-nr] [-T key-table] [-N note] key command [arguments]

I am able to C-b [, C-space to select text with arrows, but when I press y or enter nothing happens. C-w or alt-w works to copy it to the tmux buffer, but I want it in my system buffer/clipboard so I can paste it in other apps.

Here is my ~/.tmux.conf file, each commented out line is an attempt I made.

# enable scrollwheel set -g mouse on # auto scroll when shift clicking. only partially worked. # set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@' # copy to system buffer (clipboard). also didn't work. # bind -t vi-copy y copy-pipe "xclip -sel clip -i" # copy to system buffer...also didn't work wtf. someone said it was because mouse scrollwheel was enabled but I tested that and that's not it. #bind -T copy-mode-vi Enter send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "xclip -i -f -selection primary | xclip -i -selection clipboard" # copy to clipboard again # bind -t vi-copy y copy-pipe 'xclip -in -selection clipboard' # take f***ing 4 # bind-key -T copy-mode-vi y send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel 'xclip -sel clip -i' # take f***ing 5 # bind -t vi-copy Enter copy-pipe "xclip -i -selection clipboard" # trying with xsel now # bind -T copy-mode-vi Enter send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "xsel -i --clipboard" # trying with yank now...C-b I didn't work # set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-yank' # manually downloaded tmux-yank...pressing y to copy to system clipboard still doesn't work # run-shell ~/clone/path/yank.tmux
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  • I removed some of the noise from your question, can you edit again to make it more concise. We don't measure the worth of a question by its word count. Commented Jan 21, 2021 at 17:31
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    Thanks for trimming off some of the fat. I was just trying to be as detailed as possible but I see now how some details were superfluous. I made it more concise. Commented Jan 21, 2021 at 18:36

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I was able to solve this with yank. I tried this originally but I didn't have the tmux plugin manager installed.

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    Don't put 'SOLVED' in the title of your question. Accept your own answer instead. That will close the question. Commented Jan 22, 2021 at 9:37
  • Okay got it, thanks. I figured there was a better way to say it was solved...this is my first question on here. I just clicked the checkmark by my answer but it says "you can accept your own answer in 32 minutes"? Commented Jan 23, 2021 at 14:16
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    What solution did you try? Simply saying I was able to solve is not enough. Put the steps that led you to the solution in your answer. Commented Feb 2, 2021 at 3:17
  • As I said in my answer, I solved it with yank. I couldn't get yank to work at first because I didn't have the tmux plugin manager installed. I forget the exact steps but it was very simple and easy to find once I knew what I was looking for. Commented Feb 3, 2021 at 4:09
  • Tmux-yank: github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank. Commented Oct 8 at 10:37

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