Hello Fernando, Sorry for the late reply here.
On 15/01/13 05:05, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I have been trying -so far unsuccesfully- to make the ´bidirectional > copy/paste´ work from an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS work to a WinXP SP3 host > (both 32-bit). > > Is there anything that could be done to improve compatibility? any > tweaks on the linux side?. Particularly I have found that copying from > GUI apps seems to work fine, whereas copying from the terminal > console, does the ´copy´ on the Linux guest, but on the XP SP3 host I > don´t even get "paste" as if the clipboard is empty. Guest additions > are, needless to say, installed. A couple of things you should know about the clipboard. One is that on Linux systems (we use the same code for guest and host) we only support the clipboard, not the selection, so from a (GNOME) terminal you need to select text and then do Shift+Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard. Not even sure if a traditional XTerm supports the clipboard. The other is that the Windows XP clipboard viewer mechanism (actually it goes back to the co-operative multi-tasking Windows 3.1, which is the problem, as any unco-operative application can break it) is rather unreliable. I am looking at ways to improve it, but as I only use Windows in VMs it is something I have been putting off for a while. Search the Internet for "SetClipboardViewer" to find stories of misery from lots of application developers who have tried to make this work! > Is there any debug switches I can enable to see what is going on wrt > clipboard?. On a Linux host set the environment variable "VBOX_RELEASE_LOG=+clipboard.e.l.f". In a Linux guest restart VBoxClient --clipboard with the "-d" switch and that variable set (will double check if that is right later.) Regards, Michael > In the meantime I discovered ´wgetpaste´ to paste text files to the > pastebin cloud, from the comfort of the linux guest command line ;)... > http://wgetpaste.zlin.dk/wgetpaste-2.20.tar.bz2 > > -yeah, I should probably enable shared folders ;)- > > Btw: I´m running VBox 4.2.4. I know I´m one release behind, just > didn´t get time to update (might as well do it tonight) to 4.2.6 > > TIA > FC > > PS: Ubuntu got ´´barely useable´ after I installed the guest > additions. I blame the darn Unity GUI bloat coupled with the low > horsepower of the Atom 450 host and Intel video... will try next to > see if I can enable the linux-image-virtual kernel which is supposed > to give better performance virtualized, at the expense of no sound and > only framebuffer video. apt-get installed it but heven knows how I can > enable it on Ubuntu, as the boot screen doesn´t show the usual grub > screen for selecting kernels as in Fedora.... > -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:michael.tha...@oracle.com Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
