How to enable copy-to-clipboard with zathura-pdf-poppler?

Question

How do I make Zathura copy selected text to the system clipboard?

I'm using Zathura with the poppler PDF plugin.

@peterh zathura currently supports only mouse region selection (there no support for text selection via keyboard). When a region is selected the copy operation it triggered immediately (See https://github.com/pwmt/zathura/commit/f8061febe49947a0a15db516767f23c39e96938a#diff-244ba14eb252b90c1fa72069495e4d2cR491) — Radostin Stoyanov, Mar 23 '19 at 08:22

score 65 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 23 '19 at 08:24

65

Add set selection-clipboard clipboard in the config file ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc or /etc/zathurarc.

edited Mar 23 '19 at 08:24

peterh

answered Jan 23 '17 at 10:10

Radostin Stoyanov

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 24 '20 at 13:00

There are actually two clipboards. The primary clipboard is used by terminal and some applications and the other clipboard is used by most GUI applications like MS style copy/paste.
Zathura, by default, copies the selected contents to the Primary clipboard that can be accessed by middle mouse button.
This behaviour can be changed by adding
```
set selection-clipboard clipboard
```
in zathura's config file at /etc/config/zathurarc or ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc just as @peterh said. The selection will then be copied to the clipboard that can be accessed by Ctrl+V.

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '20 at 23:27

-1

As @peterh said in the comment on the OP's question, When you select the text region with mouse it will be copied to your clipboard automatically

answered Jun 04 '20 at 23:27

Suhayb

It seems to work sometimes, but it is absolutely not a given. Putting the mentioned line in the config file is the only way to ensure the behavior. – Atralb Jun 17 '20 at 01:04

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