On 26/06/2017 05:15, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On June 26, 2017 3:19:49 AM GMT+02:00, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 25/06/2017 09:12 μμ, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> On my Gentoo Linux box I am running Virtualbox and >>> on that virtual box Linux again. >>> >>> When trying to cut text from a terminal or another >>> text-based apolication and past that into a firefox >>> running on the virtualized Linux it fails. >>> >>> But when I start a firefox on the host system, >>> cut text from a terminal or another text-based >>> application and paste that into the URL-field >>> of the firefox on the host sustem, then cut >>> it from there and paste it into the firefox >>> on the viryalized Linux...it works. >>> >>> Looks a little weird to me... >>> Is that an error, which fails to fail completly >>> or is a half working feature (or do I fail >>> in both cases ... ;) ? >> >> Similar things happen with VMware. It seems that many applications do >> not set the clipboard contents in a way that VB or VMw can recognize. >> >> Never found a solution to this myself. > > How do you try to copy/paste? > > I find it only works when I explicitly use 'edit->copy' and 'edit->paste'. Or > CTRL-C and CTRL-V. > > In other words, just like in MS Windows. > > Selecting text and then pasting using the middle mouse button doesn't work. > > It seems these are two different clipboards.
They are indeed two very different clipboards. Select and paste with middle button is X cut buffers, been around for years. Any app running on the same X server should be able to do the right thing with it. CtrlC/CtrlV is a whole different animal, and that's the one VirtualBox/VMWare et al support. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
