

Had a use for one) and by a drop-down list elsewhere and if we provided a You could manually enter the name of a nonstandard clipboard if you Of available clipboards could be configured by a combo box on X11 (so Selection, and which one(s) there were menu items to talk to. The standard OS X Terminal application, for example,ĭoesn't access the real inter-application system clipboard except byĮxplicit user action (Command- on OS X), which one (if any) PuTTY would auto-copy to on Support reading or writing CLIPBOARD at all.Įven one-clipboard systems have occasionally been known to mimic aĭouble clipboard. Operations, and finally use the other paste command to retrieve whatĮxcept that in Unix PuTTY, you can't, because it currently doesn't Repeatedly use PRIMARY for a sequence of select-paste Overwritten CLIPBOARD to store one piece of text, then Supporting each one's preferred UI without the other one confusing it.īut once you realise that the two UI mechanisms access differentĬlipboards, that can be useful in its own right, because you canĭevelop usage habits that make use of both of them at once – for
#Putty paste from clipboard windows
Old-school X users and migrants from Windows each feel at home, by I have to suppose that the point of this system was to make both Pairs of keyboard shortcuts along the lines of ^C/^V or Tradition of having explicit Copy and Paste commands in menus, or The other, CLIPBOARD, follows the more Windowsy UI Mimics: just select some text, and middle-click to paste it elsewhere. One, called PRIMARY, is typicallyĪccessed by the old-school X11 user interface that Windows PuTTY 'selections', each given an identifying name in practice, there are In principle, an X server supports an open-ended set of It has just one copy operation, which writes to that clipboard, andīut in modern X11-based desktop environments, this is a wrongĪssumption. PuTTY assumes, on all platforms, that there is exactly one clipboard No support for multiple clipboards/selections Window by mistake, which wipes out the previous clipboardĬontents, which you might well have been about to use for something. Mouse setup) it can be annoyingly easy to select text in the PuTTY Outright inconvenient, because sometimes (depending on details of It's unlike all the other applications they use also, it can be So people can find PuTTY's unusual copy/paste UI surprising, since UI as a breath of fresh air and a nice reminder of home.īut these days, by no means all PuTTY users fall into that category. Instead I expected that such users would see the X-style copy/paste Prefer to be using Unix/X11 desktops but were forced to use Windows The original Windows PuTTY was primarily aimed at users who would That was a deliberate design decision early in development, because Without waiting for any subsequent UI action meaning 'copy'. PuTTY insists on copying to the clipboard as soon as you select text, No way to separate select from copy operation PuTTY's handling of copy and paste has two related problems. Wishlist summary: Revamp copy/paste UI and handle multiple clipboardsĬlass: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.

Via Native RDP (mstsc.exe) the paste is working well.PuTTY wish clipboard-generality PuTTY wish clipboard-generality If I paste the text into a notepad first, then I can paste the text into cmd, putty and Powershell. No text is paste, same problem with putty and PowerShell application. :1 T16:55:03.884Z ClipboardFormatConverter(NORM): Converting JS string to the clipboard UnicodeText formatīelow is the log generated by the browser console when I try to paste the text into the CMD.exe application.:1 T16:55:03.884Z Request for clipboard content received for format.:1 T16:55:03.883Z ClipboardChannel(NORM): Received clipboard format data request PDU.:1 T16:55:03.851Z Set remote clipboard formats complete.:1 T16:55:03.851Z Remote Clipboard format set complete with result.:1 T16:55:03.850Z ClipboardChannel(NORM): Local clipboard is shared.:1 T16:55:03.850Z ClipboardChannel(NORM): Received clipboard format list response PDU.Server: 1 x Windows Server 2022 as RD Session Hostīelow is the log generated by the browser console when I try to paste the text into the Notepad application.Remote Desktop web client (version 10.0.28.0).

cmd.exe or putty), other applications like notepad.exe works.ġ x Windows Server 2022 with the following roles installed:: Via "Remote Desktop web client" it is not possible to paste text from Client towards RDP session on some application (e.g. Unable to paste clipboard on cmd.exe, powershell.exe or putty through RD Web Client (HTML5)
