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

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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
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StackOverflow is dedicated to helping solve programming code problems. Your Q seems more appropriate to superuser.com OR vim.stackexchange.com , but read their help section regarding on-topic questions . AND please read Help On-topic and Help How-to-ask before posting more Qs here. Good luck. – shellter
Do you run XWindows? Is vim compiled with X11 libraries (+X11)? – phd
Yes X11 is enabled in my Vim – KiYugadgeter
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

1 Answers

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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.