Most of the time I keep hitting different shortcuts until it works. So while it’s possible in most programs it’s difficult to remember which program uses which shortcut.
However it’s a hit and miss because there doesn’t seem to be a standard way to copy/paste in X11.
#Copy paste virtualbox windows
Other applications support the Windows style shortcuts CTRL-C/CTRL-V or CTRL-Ins/SHIFT-Ins (e.g. For example, the Gnome Terminal uses CTRL-SHIFT-C/CTRL-SHIFT-V. Use CTRL-SHIFT-C / CTRL-Ins / CTRL-Cĭifferent applications offer different shortcuts to copy to and from the CLIPBOARD buffer. That way we would only have to hit this shortcut after selecting some text to be able to paste it on the windows side. We could probably package this command into a script and bind it to a system wide keyboard shortcut. Check out it’s man page for different uses. The argument -b tells xsel to use CLIPBOARD. The above command pipes to content of PRIMARY into stdout which is then piped back into CLIPBOARD. Xsel is a very useful tool which lets you pipe content in and out different buffers. But we can copy the PRIMARY buffer to CLIPBOARD on demand. To synchronize the buffers all the time does not seem to be best solution. Manually synchronize PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD This stops to work, because as soon as you select a text it is synchronized from the PRIMARY to the CLIPBOARD buffer and pasting would just paste the selected text over the selected text again. In many applications you can select some text and paste over a previously copied text by hitting CTRL-V or SHIFT-Ins. The buffers are not meant to be mixed together. All that’s left to do is to insert those lines in the startup/init script of your choice to make it permanently available.
The -fork argument lets autocutsel run in the background. So the selected text is immediately pastable on the host Windows. This causes the contents of the PRIMARY buffer to be automatically copied into the CLIPBOARD buffer and vice versa. # keep primary in sync with clipboard buffer # keep clipboard in sync with primary buffer For example autocutsel can do this by running two instances of it to work in both ways: There are tools which let you synchronize the different buffers. But none are really satisfying.Īutomatically synchronize PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD It is especially annoying that the selected text from a terminal window can not be easily pasted out to the Windows host. The forums are filled with posts like “Copy/Paste from Linux guest to Windows doesn’t work”. But it’s definitely not the expected behavior for Linux users. It might not be the expected behavior for Windows users. The reason why it’s not using the PRIMARY selection is that by only selecting a text in Linux overwrites the Windows clipboard immediately, which is an unexpected behavior for Windows users. But it only synchronizes the CLIPBOARD buffer back out to the Windows host. The VirtualBox client tool synchronizes the Windows clipboard content to the PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD buffer of a Linux host. And the CLIPBOARD buffer is used when the user selects some data and explicitly requests it to be “copied” to the clipboard, such as by invoking “Copy”. The PRIMARY buffer is usually used for copying and pasting via the middle mouse button. The X server maintains three different selection buffers, PRIMARY, SECONDARY and CLIPBOARD.
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