Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix

Post by rajveerb » Fri, May 29, 2026, 9:18 PM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #11

TZubiri wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a bug, pasting images into the terminal is not supported, do not do this, that's not what the terminal is for or how it is used. The standard way is to pass the path of a file to the program as a runtime parameter or in some config file. Terminals are not alternative web browsers/graphical application sandboxes.

Sixel came out in the 80's as a way to print on dot matrix printers. If your terminal doesn't support that yet, you might want to look into updating your software.

Post by rajveerb » Fri, May 29, 2026, 9:27 PM UTC

pdantix wrote: post #59

albert_e wrote: post #18

Why 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 would gladly use claude code via the desktop app, but it lags behind the cli in terms of supported features, so i just don't bother. last i tried, it didn't support executing CC within WSL while desktop is running in windows.

Post by rajveerb » Sat, May 30, 2026, 10:51 PM UTC

moontear wrote: post #67

This is awesome! Thank you rajveerb. Here is to hoping issues from 2022 will be fixed ;-)