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Enabling OSC52 Clipboard Support in tmux.md

Enabling OSC52 Clipboard Support in tmux

If you want to copy text from tmux into your system clipboard using OSC52, you can enable it with a simple configuration change.

Step 1: Update .tmux.conf

Add the following line to your ~/.tmux.conf:

set-option -g set-clipboard on

Reload tmux with:

tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Step 2: Test OSC52

Send an OSC52 sequence that encodes the string hello in base64:

echo -en "\e]52;c;aGVsbG8=\a"

If everything is configured correctly, the word hello will be copied into your system clipboard. You can confirm by pasting it into any application.

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