You can now copy selected text via right click or ctrl+c

The problem I can see with mapping the ctrl-c key to Copy is that, if we want to have the same mapping on the terminal tab (which would be a good experience for user), this will not send anymore the ctrl-c character to the terminal. On Linux it is generally Ctrl-shift-C, on Mac Cmd-C (not sure on Windows)

You can now copy selected text via right click or ctrl+c

The problem I can see with mapping the ctrl-c key to Copy is that, if we want to have the same mapping on the terminal tab (which would be a good experience for user), this will not send anymore the ctrl-c character to the terminal. On Linux it is generally Ctrl-shift-C, on Mac Cmd-C (not sure on Windows)

Yup, good catch. I'll still copy on ctrl/command-c if there is text highlighted but allow the terminal to process the command as usual after.

There is still an unexpected behaviour for the user, by pressing ctrl-c I would not expect to copy anything to the clipboard, but just send this character. That would overwrite what I have in it

There is still an unexpected behaviour for the user, by pressing ctrl-c I would not expect to copy anything to the clipboard, but just send this character. That would overwrite what I have in it

I was mostly doing this based on this comment, but i can either require a flag to be set to enable copying (so ctrl+c only works with logs) or scrap ctrl+c altogether and just leave the right click logic. My windows terminal does allow ctrl+c to copy text (or right click) like this code is doing but maybe linux doesn't support that... even if something is currently running, if something is selected copy takes precedence. But i'll defer to your judgement what you would like to do/support. My main goal here is that there's some mechanism so i can copy errors from logs.

Hello @adameska , I have added some info on an issue tracking the same problem on Podman Desktop: podman-desktop/podman-desktop#4130 (comment)

For your situation, I can see these different possibilities to be able to copy-paste (you are working on a Windows system if I understand correctly?):

• use Ctrl-Insert and Shit-Insert which should work without any change
• make some change on the code to allow the contextMenu, which would make possible to copy/paste from the contextual menu
• make the changes your are proposing, but by choosing the shortcut(s) depending on the host system (Mac, Linux, Windows). For this, the podman desktop api exposes flags which can give this information (https://github.com/podman-desktop/podman-desktop/blob/main/packages/extension-api/src/extension-api.d.ts#L4398-L4414). This API is not accessible by the frontend directly, it must be accessed by the backend, and exposed to the frontend

Hello @adameska , I have added some info on an issue tracking the same problem on Podman Desktop: podman-desktop/podman-desktop#4130 (comment)

For your situation, I can see these different possibilities to be able to copy-paste (you are working on a Windows system if I understand correctly?):

• use Ctrl-Insert and Shit-Insert which should work without any change
• make some change on the code to allow the contextMenu, which would make possible to copy/paste from the contextual menu
• make the changes your are proposing, but by choosing the shortcut(s) depending on the host system (Mac, Linux, Windows). For this, the podman desktop api exposes flags which can give this information (https://github.com/podman-desktop/podman-desktop/blob/main/packages/extension-api/src/extension-api.d.ts#L4398-L4414). This API is not accessible by the frontend directly, it must be accessed by the backend, and exposed to the frontend

Thanks for the info, i've gotten fairly busy with work but when i find time i'll hook into the env to determine mac vs windows to alter the command/ctrl key checking. I think the context menu would be nice but that's pretty non-standard in a terminal window from my experience.

Thanks for the info, i've gotten fairly busy with work but when i find time i'll hook into the env to determine mac vs windows to alter the command/ctrl key checking. I think the context menu would be nice but that's pretty non-standard in a terminal window from my experience.

I've created a PR to help you get the platform from the frontend: #465

Thanks for the info, i've gotten fairly busy with work but when i find time i'll hook into the env to determine mac vs windows to alter the command/ctrl key checking. I think the context menu would be nice but that's pretty non-standard in a terminal window from my experience.

I've created a PR to help you get the platform from the frontend: #465

This is great! Thanks so much for adding this, I've incorporated your changes and stream lined copy shortcut behavior with right click (this is how my windows terminal functions and it's a great experience to me).

@benoitf @gastoner can you PTAL?

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I was not able to copy the text on Linux using ctrl+shift+c nor ctrl+c :(

Looking at the kubernetes logo in the menu (which is gray), you are testing the internal kubernetes, not the extension (with a blue icon in the menu)