On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Ivan <[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks complicated... :)
>
> Frankly, is there really a need for such thing ? For the last year or so
> I've been using Qubes I had to copy/paste from dom0 to VMs only a few times.

I do it sufficiently often that I wrote a (incorrect)
/usr/local/bin/qubes-set-clipboard. Incorrect because it does not grab
the inter-appviewer lock when manipulating the files, so it's possible
that there could be interleaving of updating the files between my
writing and a gui-daemon's writing, but in practice I don't care since
it is nearly impossible to trigger (I perform copy first

I was looking for a better way to solve this though, potentially with
a consistent UX (just use the same keyboard shortcut in dom0 & domU
because the action you are trying to perform is the same, so that's
what users would likely expect).

> - use a specific shortcut (*not* ctrl-shift-v), or a tray button, or a menu
> entry, ..., to send the content of the clipboard to a given VM (would
> require a popup list to choose the VM). A terminal command in dom0 could
> trigger it too.

I didn't like that because it's an inconsistent UX, but given the
difficulty of doing it properly here, I think that's a very reasonable
solution.

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