If it's not working, does pasting the absolute path work? Both works on macOS.
Well that means saving the clipboard first.
Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
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Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
#42Codex CLI is doing this fine. Maybe copy a page from their book.
Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
#43Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if…
I really don't get it. Started using computers when that was the only affordable way to use computers. For some reason, some people really love to live in 1970's with their expensive HiDPI monitors.
Because it's all keyboard based. Depending on your field of work a good UI can be very different.
A few years ago I watched an account work through my companies numbers using their accounting software. It's entry method? A windows commander like tool. The menu options like add expense etc were all numbered. So he never left the numeric part of his keyboard.
The tool looked super old and obsolete but as soon as you see a power user use it, you see why.
Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
#44Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if…
I really don't get it. Started using computers when that was the only affordable way to use computers. For some reason, some people really love to live in 1970's with their expensive HiDPI monitors.
I don't mind a GUI (as long as it isn't an obnoxiously large ribbon or anything) - but if I'm doing work my input device is the keyboard. I don't want to interface with software through moving a mouse pointer when I can just tell it what to do with a few keystrokes.
Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
#45Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if…
>Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Being a power user, having used computers for more than 30 years, I usually prefer GUI because that's an evolution over CLI. Going from the basic interpreter on ZX Spectrum to the command line in MS DOS had me mesmerized. Going from the DOS CLI to Windows 95 GUI, had me me mesmerized, too. I think people in general consider themselves more pro and "hackers" if t…
Would you prefer if those people used a mouse and desktop environments?
Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do love GUIs, and use them for most of my workflow. But for Claude, I definitely prefer the CLI. Since it's a CLI app, I can wrap it in yoloAI for the sandbox protection, and also use VS Code's tunneling feature to reach that sandboxed workdir (with permissions safely bypassed) through my GUI. https://freeimage.host/i/screenshot-2026-05-19-at-141349.ByS...
But can you paste an image into it? I have a similar setup, but I access it directly via iTerm2 instead of VS Code's terminal. I've figured out the right terminal settings to get copying/pasting text to work (including with neovim's + register), but not images. Would be nice to paste images, though. Currently I have to SCP them over.
I've actually never tried it before. I just ran some tests now on a mac:
If I copy a file in Finder and paste it into a claude session, it shows in the TUI as [Image #1].
If I do the same, but paste into a claude session running over SSH, it pastes the path to the file, not the data.
If I open the image in Preview, copy the pixels (CMD-A, CMD-C), pasting that into a terminal does nothing.
So it looks like CC just puts UI sugar over top of the image path when it has file access to it? That's not really image pasting, though...
Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
#47Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if…
I really don't get it. Started using computers when that was the only affordable way to use computers. For some reason, some people really love to live in 1970's with their expensive HiDPI monitors.
I wasn't alive in the 70s, but I still prefer a terminal.
I can string together a complex series of text-related tasks far more effectively as a shell pipeline than I can by pointing and clicking in a UI. I can scale that sequence of tasks out to operate on every file on the filesystem if I want, or down to a single character in a single file.
Claude Code being a full-featured TUI is also helpful because I can quickly/easily use it remotely via SSH without having to deal with setting up X forwarding, VNC, Parsec, etc. The remote host doesn't even need to have a window manager. Sure, it'd be nice if it also had an elegant multi-page GUI so I could more easily drill into the actions its performing and make better use of my large screen to watch it do multi-agent things, but if I have to choose between the two, I prefer the TUI.
That said, I'd much rather use a GUI to do things that are actually visual/spatial in nature.
Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really don't get it. Started using computers when that was the only affordable way to use computers. For some reason, some people really love to live in 1970's with their expensive HiDPI monitors.
Because it's all keyboard based. Depending on your field of work a good UI can be very different. A few years ago I watched an account work through my companies numbers using their accounting software. It's entry method? A windows commander like tool. The menu options like add expense etc were all numbered. So he never left the numeric part of his keyboard. The tool looked super old and obsolete but as soon as you se…
GUIs can also be keyboard based, and there are language REPLs as well.
Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really don't get it. Started using computers when that was the only affordable way to use computers. For some reason, some people really love to live in 1970's with their expensive HiDPI monitors.
I don't mind a GUI (as long as it isn't an obnoxiously large ribbon or anything) - but if I'm doing work my input device is the keyboard. I don't want to interface with software through moving a mouse pointer when I can just tell it what to do with a few keystrokes.
Xerox PARC REPL sytle, and better you can get the inline graphics for free, as there is no need to emulate a teletype.
Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
#50Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if…
I really don't get it. Started using computers when that was the only affordable way to use computers. For some reason, some people really love to live in 1970's with their expensive HiDPI monitors.
It might be overcompensation. I think UI, UX and GUIs got better up until the 90s, and early 2000s, but then somewhere GUIs suddenly got a lot worse. So a modern CLI is better and more standardized than a modern GUI.