I can't paste what I copied to the clipboard with Vim on Ubuntu

Question

I tried yank to clipboard from vim. But it does not do it.
I've attempted with "+y (also, I tried "*y)after select copy area in Visual Mode. But does not paste copied content when I Ctrl-Shift-V typed on terminal.

Why it does not paste in terminal despite I yanked to special register? clipboard and xterm_clipboard features are enabled in my vim.

I using

Vim 8.1 patch 1-320
Ubuntu 19.04
Virtualbox 6.0.12

StackOverflow is dedicated to helping solve programming code problems. Your Q seems more appropriate to https://superuser.com OR https://vim.stackexchange.com , but read their help section regarding on-topic questions . AND please read [Help On-topic](https://stackoverflow.com/Help/On-topic) and [Help How-to-ask](https://stackoverflow.com/Help/How-to-ask) before posting more Qs here. Good luck. — shellter, Sep 30 '19 at 15:24
Do you run XWindows? Is `vim` compiled with X11 libraries (+X11)? — phd, Sep 30 '19 at 15:24
I have the same problem. I don't know if it helps, but using synaptics, the problem seemed to disappear, but using libinput, problem appears. — Tom, Mar 30 '20 at 12:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 30 '19 at 15:28

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Ubuntu has 2 clipboards. From this answer, using "*yy or "+yy (one or the other) should yank text to and from your ctrl+c / ctrl+v clipboard. (This works on X11 systems, which you have, according to the comments.)

Also see these.

answered Sep 30 '19 at 15:28

Nick Reed

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I use vim-gnome in ubuntu, but "*yy and "+yy" both doesn't work. – KiYugadgeter Sep 30 '19 at 15:36
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What's the output of `:echo has('clipboard')`? If it's `0`, you don't have a version of vim installed that can use `+clipboard`, and may want to consider installing a different version. – Nick Reed Sep 30 '19 at 15:39
result is 1 and +clipboard – KiYugadgeter Sep 30 '19 at 15:42
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Out of curiosity, does it paste content to other areas (like a word processor) and / or can you paste into the terminal by middle-clicking? – Nick Reed Sep 30 '19 at 15:49
copy from: other application paste to: vim is works. but, copy from vim paste to other application doesn't work – KiYugadgeter Sep 30 '19 at 15:53
Are you able to paste with `"*p` or `"+p`, or are you doing so with ctrl shift v? – Nick Reed Sep 30 '19 at 15:56
Not sure what could be causing the issue, unless you've bound one of the other characters to something else or you're on a remote connection. – Nick Reed Sep 30 '19 at 16:41
there is no these setting in my vim. – KiYugadgeter Sep 30 '19 at 23:46

I can't paste what I copied to the clipboard with Vim on Ubuntu

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