Image pasting in Windows to WSL in Terminal directly from clipboard

What feature would you like to see?

People already reported this:

But it seems not all options are covered:

Basically an image can be dragged and dropped to Windows Terminal with WSL session and it correctly works.
If i copy file in Windows Explorer and paste it into Windows Terminal with WSL all i get is path, maybe this would be useful, but the path is from windows and Codex usually doesn't like those paths as it claims it's can't get out of sandbox or claims it's not available
But I often do screenshots with ShareX and it has a copy feature, when doing CTRL+V it does nothing.
Copying "virtual image" from photos doesn't work either.

Supposedly should be implemented in: 468a8b4

This means the correct implementation (full one):

Dragging file to WSL Terminal should work and produce an image for Codex
Copying a file frrom Windows Explorer and pasting into terminal should produce an image for Codex
Copying an image from apps like sharex, etc that have the image in memory and put it in clipboard and pasting it.. should produce an image for Codex

Are you interested in implementing this feature?

Probably not. Maybe if it gets denied, and i can use codex to fix codex :-)

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I also have the same problems.

i had the same problem

Can confirm, same issue. Super annoying to always have to save screenshots and then manually tell codex about them.

I can confirm here. just did the suggested update yesterday

now it says

_ OpenAI Codex (v0.46.0)

if you hit ? it now shows

  / for commands                          ctrl + j for newline
  @ for file paths                        ctrl + v to paste images
  esc esc to edit previous message        ctrl + c to exit
                                          ctrl + t to view transcript

ctrl + v to paste images

but when I do have an image in the clipboard, nothing gets pasted at all. whereas the text paste works great + image paste in chatgpt works great too.

typical scenario: I screenshot something that gets added to the clipbaord, and I hit CTRL+V pretty much anywhere, and i'd like to do it in codex cli whereas it says it can accept it with a CTRL+V
=> quite frustrating

context: windows 11, codex cli running in wsl as suggested in the official openai install documentation a couple weeks ago when I first installed it

ctrl + v to paste images
not work on WSL on 0.46

Can confirm. Image pasting not working

0.47 still not working

Pull request: #5644

just upgraded to codex-cli 0.53.0
still not working

just upgraded to codex-cli 0.53.0 still not working

A temporary work around: https://github.com/unclejimao/WSL-Image-Clipboard-Helper/tree/performance-optimize

@Waxime64

@Waxime64 But CTRL+ALT+V doesn't work for me either when I have a screenshot in the clipboard :(

Can you take a screenshoot with codex-cli version and you windows version ?
And in code-cli, if you press ?, that write CTRL+ALT+V for paste image ?

@Waxime64

@Waxime64
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64 (Windows 11 Pro)
with WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64)
Codex 0.71.0
Windows Terminal 1.23.12811.0

I took a screenshot using the Windows Snipping Tool (no autosave enabled in the settings) – it is now in the clipboard. I then tried to paste it into WSL2 Codex using CTRL + ALT + V:

Unable to paste clipboard, i think it worked intermittently

@TechWithTy

@TechWithTy

sudo nano /etc/wsl.conf
---
[interop]
enabled = true
appendWindowsPath = true
---
wsl --shutdown

That was the problem for me (this was missing) and should be included in the Codex WSL documentation (https://developers.openai.com/codex/windows/). Restart WSL. Then press CTRL + ALT + V.

#11150 / #11145

FIX: WSL Paste image does not work (openai#6793)

Hey,
I find myself from time to time to paste an image snapshot from the clipboard. However, claude/codex in wsl cannot pickup the clipboard. so I made a small tool (lives in the sys tray) that will automatically save the image in a tmp folder and reutrn back the path to it which picks up wonderfully 😄

run the tool (access its menu via right click on the sys tray con)
snapshot image into clipboard
hit shift+ctrl+v (you can also select in the tool shift+alt+v) in claude
codex/claude will pick it up and show [Image #xxx]
enjoy!
https://github.com/shanytc/claude_image_fixer

FIX: WSL Paste image does not work (#6793)

fix(tui): handle WSL clipboard image paths (openai#3990)

FIX: WSL Paste image does not work (openai#6793)

FIX: WSL Paste image does not work (#6793)

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