Ubuntu 16.04 `xsel` to primary keyboard not working

[alphaCTzo7G]

I am using VIM, tmux, zsh combination.

I have vim set clipboard set to autoselect, so I have made sure that the selection in VIM is transferred to the * register. I can see it if I pull up the quickfix window. When I use xsel in the terminal, I can get the correct output as well.

However, when I use Ctrl+B+] or Ctrl+B+]+Shift+y or Ctrl+B+Ctrl+y or Ctrl+B+y, nothing pastes the clipboard into the terminal or to vim.

The docs are a bit confusing as to what is the correct method to paste from primary clipboard to the terminal.

Weirdly, if I do select and copy text from the terminal, I can paste it in vim or else where.

For example if I select a block of text using the tmux-copy plugin using ctrl+b+ctrl+f, I can use xsel to check whether the text is in the primary clipboard..

I can also use "*p" to paste it in VIM.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

[alphaCTzo7G]

I do see the echo xsel -i --$xsel_selection" command in the helpers.sh file, but I dont see anything like xsel-o-$xsel_selection.

How does tmux_yank paste the primary or clipboard data into the shell or into another application?

[alphaCTzo7G]

I had to add the following command into my .tmux.conf to paste from xsel into the tmux buffer and then into the shell.
**bind-key C-p run-shell "xsel | tmux load-buffer - ; tmux paste-buffer"
**

It would be great if this could be incoroporated into tmux-yank..

[docwhat]

Note that tmux-yank only does copying. It doesn't support pasting; that is part of tmux already.

You may not need tmux-yank at all, if you meet these requirements: Linux with TMUX 1.5 or newer

Otherwise, read this section of the README. You can use @override_copy_command or @yank_selection to try different things.