# Copying text to Zynthian terminal

**URL:** <https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133>\
**Category:** Software\
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133 "2025-02-25T16:54:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/cab0a1/32.png) [@Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/Rotil66)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/1 "2025-02-25T16:54:30Z")

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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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**Author:** ![pau](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/pau/32/7869_2.png) [@pau](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/pau)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/2 "2025-02-25T17:13:48Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/cab0a1/32.png) [@Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/Rotil66)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/3 "2025-02-25T17:20:21Z")

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Nope tried it… Not working.

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**Author:** ![Baggypants](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/baggypants/32/1911_2.png) [@Baggypants](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/Baggypants)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/4 "2025-02-25T17:30:34Z")

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

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**Author:** ![le51](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/le51/32/1706_2.png) [@le51](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/le51)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/5 "2025-02-25T17:36:56Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/cab0a1/32.png) [@Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/Rotil66)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/6 "2025-02-25T18:57:25Z")

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

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**Author:** ![le51](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/le51/32/1706_2.png) [@le51](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/le51)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/7 "2025-02-25T19:44:45Z")

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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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**Author:** ![core.east](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/core.east/32/13283_2.png) [@core.east](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/core.east)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/8 "2025-02-25T19:49:12Z")

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> [@le51](#):
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> in a the terminal, “right click =\> paste”

This is not working here! [EDIT: i mean not working for me in the webconf terminal]

I would suggest to use [putty](https://www.putty.org/). 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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**Author:** ![Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/cab0a1/32.png) [@Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/Rotil66)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/9 "2025-02-25T19:51:47Z")

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

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**Author:** ![le51](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/le51/32/1706_2.png) [@le51](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/le51)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/10 "2025-02-25T19:56:17Z")

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yes putty is cool.  
And for transferring and editing remote files [filezilla](https://filezilla-project.org/) is excellent too.

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**Author:** ![Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/cab0a1/32.png) [@Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/Rotil66)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/11 "2025-02-25T20:11:41Z")

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I know putty.  
if that’s the only way…

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**Author:** ![Baggypants](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/baggypants/32/1911_2.png) [@Baggypants](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/Baggypants)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/13 "2025-02-26T10:17:04Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/cab0a1/32.png) [@Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/Rotil66)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 10:30am UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/14 "2025-02-26T10:30:21Z")

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

Thanks 👍🏻

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**Author:** ![riban](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/riban/32/2331_2.png) [@riban](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/riban)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 10:56am UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/15 "2025-02-26T10:56:33Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/cab0a1/32.png) [@Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/Rotil66)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/16 "2025-02-26T11:16:38Z")

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Hi Brian,

The Question had run a bit out of proportion 🫣  
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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**Author:** ![riban](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/riban/32/2331_2.png) [@riban](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/riban)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/17 "2025-02-26T12:08:05Z")

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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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**Author:** ![wyleu](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/wyleu/32/514_2.png) [@wyleu](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/wyleu)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/18 "2025-02-26T12:59:25Z")

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> [@Rotil66](#):
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> The Question had run a bit out of proportion 🫣

That is what some of us live for. . .

> [@riban](#):
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> It seems there is some inconsistency in how the terminal module handles copy/paste from different browsers on different OS.

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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**Author:** ![rouxleandre](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/rouxleandre/32/13480_2.png) [@rouxleandre](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/rouxleandre)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 6:51am UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/19 "2025-02-28T06:51:42Z")

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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 🙂

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 🙂

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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**Author:** ![wyleu](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/wyleu/32/514_2.png) [@wyleu](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/wyleu)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 8:45am UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/20 "2025-02-28T08:45:45Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/cab0a1/32.png) [@Rotil66](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/Rotil66)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/copying-text-to-zynthian-terminal/11133/21 "2025-02-28T12:34:04Z")

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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 🙂  
But this question is also getting a bit out of hand 🤭. 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 🙃)  
But no problem to use the other ways to acces the Pi and send command.

Thanks all for this great support 👍

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