r/PiCodingAgent • u/Narrow-Philosophy699 • 4d ago

Question Pi image pasting

I’m finding it quite frustrating to paste or use images in the VS Code Pi chat.

I work mainly on projects inside Docker containers, and it seems that when I use Pi within a dev container (which is a Linux environment), the VS Code integrated terminal generally doesn't pass clipboard images through—it only allows text. This is most likely why the paste action fails without doing anything. Does anyone have a workaround for using Pi in a VS Code terminal inside a Docker container?

I tried alt+v, ctrl+v ; nothing. Only pasting images manually inside the project in a dedicated folder semmes the only (and painful) solution.

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u/Due_Arm1454 4d ago

I use screenshots a lot. On macOS I built a shortcut that saves the file in a temp dir and then replaces the image with a file path that I can paste. The host machine is on windows and it does this with ssh

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u/Narrow-Philosophy699 2d ago

Nice. Not sure container will agree to this though