Unable to use Screen's clipboard inside Firefox

Question

I have not managed to get my pbcopy/pbpaste to work in Screen as discussed here.

I aim to solve the problem by having Screen clipboard inside Firefox. Its paste works in terminal by the following command but not in Firefox

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How can you use Screen's clipboard inside Firefox?

Answer 1

Screen's clipboard (correctly called a paste buffer) only works inside that instance of screen. That's all it's designed to do.

The best way to copy-n-paste to FireFox is to use your terminal program's copy mechanism.

Answer 2

Here's a solution that makes use of screen's buffer-writing commands and pbcopy:

• Copying the GNU screen buffer to the Leopard clipboard