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If Ubuntu on WSL would have paste by right/middle click and copy on select (or better if Windows had this in general!) I wouldn't use putty anymore.

Still a nice terminal is very welcome, a good dropdown terminal (with bash/wsl, not powershell) would be really really great.

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I've been using this and seems to have all the functionality you'd want.

https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

Yes! The same can be said for git-bash which uses mintty and doesn’t require you to install a new operating system (almost).

Yes git-bash is really surprisingly good for a "by product".

Ooh, thanks. Been using mintty on Cygwin for ages, this might be what I need to stop looking at WSL and start using it as my default ...

+1, this was secretly the type of reply I wanted ;)

You can actually run X11 apps in WSL, you just need a Windows X11 server running and the right environment variables for WSL apps to find it. You can waste time running glxgears, xeyes and xclock "natively" on Windows!

I use VcXsrv and gnome-terminal since I do all my development in tmux/vim/zsh and the default WSL terminal is really bad. I made a shortcut that calls 'bash.exe -c "DISPLAY=:0 gnome-terminal"'.

I assume this would also work for konsole/terminator/etc. if you prefer those.

Oh, very nice, thanx for sharing.

Another vote for WSLTTY. It's slower than the Ubuntu terminal (which is insanely quick) but it supports way more of what you expect if you are used to iTerm2 or X11 terminals.

It does have paste by right click when you enable the QuickEdit mode in the Windows terminal. Also, then you can mouse-select stuff and hit Enter to copy.

And there is also a CTRL+SHIFT+C/V mode for copy paste in recent Windows versions

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