Copying text to Zynthian terminal

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Hi All,
Probably a simple question, but I can’t find the way…
I just want to copy some commands to test to the Terminal.
How can I copy text for ‘windows’ into the terminal in the Zynthian.
Ctrl C/V and ctrl-shftC/V isn"t working.

Thanks

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I can’t test it right now but usually adding shift to the combination works: Ctrl-Shift-V

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Nope tried it… Not working.

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What do you mean by “The Terminal”? The webconf one or something else?

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With my Linux PCs (mostly under Debian), I select some text with the left click, and I can paste it anywhere (eg in the console) with the middle (mouse) click.

Also, you can use text completion with the “Tab” key: in the terminal type “cd /u then Tab” and you’ll get “cd /usr/”; add “l”: “cd /usr/l and hit Tab”, you’ll get “cd /usr/lib/”. And you can use “up” and “down” arrow key to navigate in the terminal command history.

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Sorry I’m on windows logged into the Zynthian Web UI

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Under Win, I think this should work:

  • select the text as usual with the mouse, then “right click => copy”.
  • in a the terminal, “right click => paste”.
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This is not working here! [EDIT: i mean not working for me in the webconf terminal]

I would suggest to use putty. When you get use to the copy paste functionality there it is quite good.

Right click to paste
And if you higlight something it is automatically copied, which is good when someone here ask you to run some troubleshooting command and post the result on the forum.

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tried that but not working.
No paste option in ythe rightclick menu in the terminal

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yes putty is cool.
And for transferring and editing remote files filezilla is excellent too.

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I know putty.
if that’s the only way…

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You’re right. I cannot paste into the terminal using any method with the Win11 / Firefox 135 or Edge 133, but I can with Gnome / Firefox 135. You’re either going to have to type it out long form , use ssh (ssh is available from the command prompt in windows 10 and later), or install linux.

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Ok,
No is also a good answer.
Putty it will be…

Thanks :+1:t2:

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I haven’t used putty for a few years now. My hiatus from using Windows was blessed and since my forced return (for work) I have been using the builtin ssh client from the Windows command line. I have not needed any of the enhancements that putty provides. I still prefer to use a linux command line though!

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Hi Brian,

The Question had run a bit out of proportion :face_with_peeking_eye:
I just noticed that I couldn’t use the normal copy/past options and was curious if I was doing something wrong. Since it would be convenient, but there are more roads that lead to Rome, so I will take one of them.

thanks

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It is an intersting issue that I think would benefit from a bug report. I did some research and tried a fix (which failed). It seems there is some inconsistency in how the terminal module handles copy/paste from different browsers on different OS. It would certainly be beneficial to be able to copy and paste within the webconf terminal.

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That is what some of us live for. . .

In all the years of staring down serial ports, real and virtual, waiting for your own outputs and whatever may be at the far end, you can guarantee at some point it will all get deeply confused.

… and result in nothing or a stream of unrecognizable characters.

And you can be absolutely certain it will handle a | badly.

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If you are open to learning new things, you could always ssh into Zynthian using the terminal of your choice, this means you don’t really need to install anything additional on your machine.

To achieve this, open something like Terminal on Windows.

Type ssh root@zynthian

This should prompt you to add the unknown destination to your hosts file (trust it), you can type y and press enter.

Provide the super-secret password when prompted :slight_smile:

You should see yourself logged into the terminal and you can issue your command from here using the CLI, the great thing about this approach is it is OS agnostic, it will work on Windows, Mac and of course Linux where you live in the terminal anyway :slight_smile:

Answering how you copy & paste to this terminal is then as suggested, you use Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-V

OR

Right click a highlighted piece of text in the Terminal and it will be copied to the clipboard, and right click a blank space in the terminal to paste something from your clipboard, no additional key presses required.

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ssh - X root@zynthian.local

The X allows you to run X windows programmes and the. Local is required.

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It’s nice to see that this is a very active forum and a lot off answers that are coming in :slight_smile:
But this question is also getting a bit out of hand :face_with_hand_over_mouth:. Initiately I was only wondering if it was possible to copy/past something directly from windows to the terminal in the Config UI, just for convience. (since I’m a bit lazy and like to do thing the easy way :upside_down_face:)
But no problem to use the other ways to acces the Pi and send command.

Thanks all for this great support :+1: