Black Beard:
> Hey again, 
> 
> i instll KeepassX on the Vm "Q" work and put the database in the same Vm. All 
> works perfectly. But if i try to open a website with the autotype function 
> nothing happend. 
> 
> Before i type crtl+k and under windows10 all works without any problems. If i 
> try  the same methode under Qubes it not work. I click in the field(username) 
> and on KeePassX with right click perform autotype. Nothing happend.
> 
> If someone knows why?
> 
> regards

The autotype thing doesn't really work in qubes because of the domain
separation. When you have keepassx open in say vault domain, and then do
autotype, it just copies the username/password into vault domain
clipboard and then pastes it (also into vault domain), even though your
web browser is probably (and should be) running in a different domain.

It's a good idea to keep a domain/vm dedicated to keepassx, for security
of all your passwords. The vault domain is good for this. It's a bit
more of a pain to copy usernames/passwords from keepassx to your web
browser or other application in another domain (in a regular linux not
using virtualization you can just use autotype key) but it's just a
convenience/security tradeoff.

So, say you have your keepassx database opened in vault domain, and your
web browser on a website in work domain, and you want to log into the
website. Here are the steps.

1. click on the entry in vault->keepassx
2. ctrl+b to copy username into vault domain clipboard
3. ctrl+shift+c to copy username from vault domain clipboard to dom0
clipboard
4. click into work->firefox username field
5. ctrl+shift+v to paste username from dom0 clipboard to work domain
clipboard
6. ctrl+v to paste username from work domain clipboard to firefox
username field
7. click back on the entry in vault->keepassx
8. ctrl+c to copy password into vault domain clipboard
9. ctrl+shift+c to copy password from vault domain clipboard to dom0
clipboard
10. click into work->firefox password field
11. ctrl+shift+v to paste password from dom0 clipboard to work domain
clipboard
12. ctrl+v to paste password from work domain clipboard to firefox
password field
13. then you can log in

This is kinda a pain and it looks long but once you get used to it it
only takes a few seconds really. And there's always a tradeoff between
convenience and security (qubes doesn't normally allow applications to
copy/paste data between domains for security reasons).

There may be a script that does the inter-vm copy/paste automatically?
Not sure about that, but still this doesn't take very long once you get
used to it.

See qubes doc for copy/paste between domains:

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/copy-paste/

-- 
Jackie

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