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.
I had the same problem and did searched for solution way back. I seems that there are multiple clipboard buffers and they can be synchronized automatically using the "autocutsel" tool (package available) on the host, which increases the success frequency. Perhaps the normal interaction of vbox with those buffers is suboptimal. Still it seems, that the tool/flow of autocutsel itself may be buggy or racy: sometimes it fails still, then "autocutsel" has to be terminated and restarted. -- http://www.halfdog.net/ PGP: 156A AE98 B91F 0114 FE88 2BD8 C459 9386 feed a bee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ 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
