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Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

tushar_bansal — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:10:03 GMT

How do I copy text from the integrated web terminal? The selection goes away as soon as I lift my finger from the mouse.

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

szymon_dybczak — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:24:19 GMT

Hi @tushar_bansal ,

Maybe this is something related to your browser/mouse setup? I've tested it on my environment and it works as expected. Selection does not goes way and I can copy text without issue:

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

ManojkMohan — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:29:47 GMT

@tushar_bansal you can try running a command run a command echo "your-text" > file.txt and then open/copy from the editor . it worked for me

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

tushar_bansal — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:32:28 GMT

Thanks @szymon_dybczak, but I don't think I am doing anything special with my browser/mouse setup. I tried using my MacBook's trackpad and the same behaviour there.
Are you using Azure? We are on AWS, could it be related to that?

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

szymon_dybczak — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:34:58 GMT

Yes @tushar_bansal , you're correct. I'm on Azure. Maybe you're right and this is issue specific to AWS? Maybe someone else will join to discussion with access to AWS instance and check this

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

tushar_bansal — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:51:40 GMT

@ManojkMohan, yes, that will work, but it is not ideal. I would like it to work directly from there.

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

szymon_dybczak — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:11:35 GMT

You were right @tushar_bansal . I've logged in to Free Edition which is on AWS and I encountered the same issue as you. Whenever I select a text it disappear. Also there is an option to copy line (when you click right button of the mouse) but it also doesn't work:

@Advika , could you somehow notify product team about this bug?

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

tushar_bansal — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:28:08 GMT

Thanks a lot @szymon_dybczak !!

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

TheOC — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:39:21 GMT

Hi @tushar_bansal
Are you running on MacOS or Windows?
If you're on Windows (I'm sure Mac will have an equivalent), I appreciate its not an ideal workaround, but one option may be to use the snipping tool. This allows you to take a screenshot and grab the text from it:

I think in the meantime this is likely best reported as a bug and fixed, but hopefully this helps you get the info you need while that is being fixed.

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

tushar_bansal — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:51:41 GMT

Yes @TheOC, this is what I do as a workaround. In macOS I can directly copy from the screenshot.

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

szymon_dybczak — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:17:41 GMT

Don't worry, we will submit ticket - we shouldn't use any workarounds here. It should work in the same way as in Azure terminal

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

Advika — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:39:49 GMT

I agree with @szymon_dybczak, since this issue is reproducible, the best way forward is to raise a ticket with the Databricks Support team. I’ll also flag this internally so the team is aware.

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

StephenBoesch — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:00:11 GMT

This does not work for me. MacOS 15.7 on chrome .

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

StephenBoesch — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:01:47 GMT

I am on gcp using macOS 15.7 . I can confirm this behavior and it is a showstopper. Not being able to copy/paste from/to the terminal makes is unusable. That is really too bad because i was excited to see it in place.

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

StephenBoesch — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:02:48 GMT

I am on GCP and confirm this broken behavior. chrome / macos 15.7

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

StephenBoesch — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:06:43 GMT

That is a pretty awkward/difficult solution when copy/paste is such a frequently used tool. e.g there is a warning/error message. I'd have to re-run the entire command (piping to output file) to get the text again. Also that does not necessarily reproduce the results in the same way.

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

StephenBoesch — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:07:53 GMT

Could you also flag that GCP is also broken?

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

StephenBoesch — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:17:43 GMT

I'm on a Premium workspace so this is not limited to the free edition.

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

tushar_bansal — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 05:32:22 GMT

An update here. I raised a ticket and found out this is because tmux mode is enabled by default in the web terminal. You can disable the tmux mode by adding `export DISABLE_TMUX=true` to the ~/.bashrc of the compute.
When I asked them about the default tmux prefix (generally Ctrl + b), the response was that the prefix is yet to be implemented.

Re: Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

tushar_bansal — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 05:36:26 GMT

@StephenBoesch I have posted a solution. That should work for you, too. https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/copy-text-from-the-integrated-web-terminal/m-p/133873/highlight/true#M49942