On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:01:18 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Walter Hurry > <walterhu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:33:44 -0400, Adam Moffett wrote: >> >>> I have a Xubuntu linux host and a Windows XP guest and the >>> bidrectional clipboard works 99% of the time in the "copy from linux, >>> paste to windows" direction. It works 1% of the time in the "copy >>> from windows, >>> paste to linux" direction. It's been like that for me for some few >>> years now and I've just lived with it because it's a minor nuisance >>> only. >>> >>> Is there some secret sauce to make this work better? >> >> I have a Linux host and an XP guest, and bidirectional clipboard works >> perfectly. So I can't help you; sorry. But I very much doubt that >> changing the Windows version will make any difference. > > It usually works for me, but I wouldn't say "perfectly". Every once in a > while, something doesn't work. I'm not sure where the problem is, > but I've never managed to copy to clipboard in one guest and paste in > another without a bit of fiddling around, and sometimes just > host<->guest mucks up too. But it usually works. > You have a point. As a test I tried to copy from an XP guest and then paste into a FreeBSD guest. No dice. I had to paste into the Linux host first, then copy again from Linux and paste into FreeBSD (actually I have an idea that that has something to do with XP's weird clipboard handling).
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