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On 26/06/2017 07:45 μμ, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> On 2017-06-26 19:18, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> Sometimes the clipboard contents even disappear if you exit the |
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>> application you copied from. Start Google Chrome. Select the URL bar. |
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>> Press Ctrl+C. Quit Google Chrome. Try Ctrl+V somewhere. It's gone. The |
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>> clipboard content you just copied from Chrome is gone. |
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> I think this is a feature, for privacy reasons. pass (the password |
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> manager) does the same with passwords it puts into the clipboard. |
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Nah, it's because in X the clipboard doesn't contain the data, it only |
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contains a reference to the X client the copy was made it. A paste asks |
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the application you copied from to provide the data. That means that if |
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you quit the application, you can't paste anymore. |
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However, a clipboard manager is supposed to fix that (like klipper on |
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KDE/Plasma). But stuff stuff still breaks. |
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The only workaround I know to paste something into a VM guest is to copy |
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from the host application (e.g. Chrome), click on klipper icon in the |
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systray, click on the paste data, then paste into the VM. |
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And guess what? Sometimes that doesn't work either. Fortunately, it does |
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most of the time. |
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