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tmux 3: Productive Mouse-Free Development
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tmux 3: Productive Mouse-Free Development

by Brian P. Hogan
March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
118 pages
3h 2m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Integrating tmux with System Clipboards

As you integrate tmux into your development workflow, you’ll find that you’ll have to work with text from other programs. When you copy text in tmux, it ends up in its own buffers, separate from your system clipboard that other applications can access. But with some helper apps and some custom keybindings, you can share the system clipboard with tmux.

Working with the Clipboard on Linux

You can integrate your buffers with the Linux system clipboard so you can more easily copy and paste between programs. The method you use depends on whether or not your distribution uses Xorg or Wayland for the display system.

If your system uses Xorg, you’ll need the xclip utility,[10] On Ubuntu, use the apt command ...

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