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I installed xterm on WSL2 on my machine. However, I cannot copy text from outside into the xterm window... (I can copy and paste between xterm windows).

Afterwards, I installed terminator

sudo apt-get install terminator

The window appears but I get the error:

ConfigBase::load: Unable to open /home/pc/.config/terminator/config ([Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/pc/.config/terminator/config')
Gdk-Message: 15:53:32.137: Unable to load hand2 from the cursor theme
<window.Window object at 0x7f9f84073b80 (terminatorlib+window+Window at 0x2116500)> is not in registered window list

Does anyone know of how to copy external text into xterm or a suitable alternative o xterm for WSL?

Best regards

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  • There is always bash.
    – harrymc
    Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 16:03
  • How can you lunch a new terminal? I am creating "windows" with xterm for running gdb
    – Tpj
    Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 16:05
  • I don't understand this. You are already in a terminal when you typed sudo apt-get install terminator. xterm is x11 and for this specific task, pointless. Am I missing something?
    – Señor CMasMas
    Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 17:02
  • Hi, yes. I want to debug code in parallel and for that I need new windows stackoverflow.com/questions/329259/…. However, if I want to copy and paste from outside of xterm I cannot do it. But it works in terminator, so the approach would be to replace terminator with xterm, but I get the errors/warnigs in the post
    – Tpj
    Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 17:11
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    Good to see you have it resolved, but I see in another question that you have other xterm issues. Have you considered Windows Terminal as an alternative? It supports multiple WSL tabs, copy/paste between Windows and WSL, is open-source, actively developed by Microsoft, available for installation through the Microsoft Store, and is just far beyond xterm in feature set (and pretty much any Linux terminal, IMHO).
    – NotTheDr01ds
    Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 18:30

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Reset to default
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This was solved by:

touch ~.Xdefaults

And pasting inside:

XTerm*VT100.Translations:       #override\n\
 Shift Ctrl <KeyPress> v: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)\n\
 Shift Ctrl <KeyPress> c: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD)\n
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