Copying and paste from Wine program to terminal doesn't work

I'm using wine-1.6.2 in Ubuntu 16 LTS and when I copy text from Notepad++ and attempt to paste it into the terminal it doesn't work. I can do the same thing with gedit and it works (gedit > select text > right-click > copy , terminal > right-click > paste)

How can I copy and paste from a Wine program into the terminal, why doesn't what I copied go to the clipboard?


Try pasting it using key combination Ctrl + Shift + V. This works in some cases.


I found I'm able to copy from N++ using Ctrl + Ins or Ctrl + C, paste into a non-WINE app (e.g. Text Editor, or Chrome's address bar if it's single-line), then copy again from there, after which Shift + Ins or Ctrl + V will paste into Terminal. Not as neat as Ceda El's answer (which also works with Ctrl-Shift-Ins), but might be useful to some.

Interestingly, you can use this "feature" to give yourself two paste buffers.

  • Ctrl + V (and aliases) will paste whatever was copied from native apps
  • Ctrl + Shift + Vwill paste whatever was copied from N++