Copy paste not working on ubuntu putty

Question

I have been using putty to connect to one of my client server,here the problem is that copy and paste doesn't work. When I was on windows it used to work and now I want the same thing on ubuntu 13.10.

Solution 1

You might try adding a Shift to your commands, so Ctrl+Shift+C / V. That is how copy pasting is done in the terminal (Ctrl+C is used to abort terminal commands). Alternatively you can try pasting by pressing Enter or the middle mouse button.

In Ubuntu, you may wish to consider not using PuTTY at all: you can simply ssh using a terminal. For example, if you want to connect to test.server.com, you could simply type:

ssh test.server.com 

If your username is different on the remote system, you can specify it by using this syntax:

ssh remote_username@remote_host

More advanced options are described in the man pages.

Solution 2

Ctrl+Shift+Insert for paste, worked for Ubuntu 12.04 and putty

Solution 3

I found that selecting (left click and drag) would copy, and middle mouse (tap down on scroll wheel) would paste. It worked for me, when adding the shift did not.

Solution 4

With the mouse left-click, hold, and drag cursor to select+copy text to clipboard. Paste with center mouse wheel/button.

Solution 5

You can configure the copy/paste behavior on Window → Selection as below.

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Comments

[Admin]

you might try adding a SHIFT to your commands, so CTRL+SHIFT+C/V. That is how how copy pasting is done in the terminal. (I also don't see how you would need Putty in Ubuntu; you can simply ssh using a terminal)

[Admin]

@GerhardBurger Haven't done it with the terminal.May be I need to check it out.

[Admin]

@GerhardBurger BTW do you have any document I can refer to to do a SSH connection through the trnminal.

[Admin]

@GerhardBurger Ah thanks a lot got it and sorry for the nobish question I'm bit new to ubuntu.

[Admin]

no problem at all! Putty is a great program on windows ;) Did you in the end get the copy pasting working? You might also try the middle mouse button or enter, sometimes those can do a paste.

[Admin]

@GerhardBurger Yeah its working now.

[BustedSanta]

I am on ubuntu 15.10. Antonius' suggestion worked for me as well.

[M. Rostami]

I am on ubuntu 18.04. Antonius' suggestion worked for me as well.