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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon QubesOS

Copy/paste between VMs fails if there's a large amount of text

Open kord1e opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Qubes OS release

4.1.1

Brief summary

If you try to copy/paste a large amount of text between VMs it doesn't work. Only 1 byte "}" is copied. This is very confusing because the copy/paste tool doesn't tell that the amount of text is too much.

Steps to reproduce

  1. make plenty of text in a text editor, e.g. 500 kB
  2. Select all of it, Ctrl+A
  3. Ctrl+C
  4. Ctrl+Shift+C
  5. Open a text editor in another VM
  6. Ctrl+Shift+V in the new VM
  7. Ctrl+V

Expected behavior

All text is copied, OR proper error message is given to the user.

Actual behavior

Only 1 byte is copied and it doesn't tell what is wrong.

kord1e avatar Sep 17 '22 13:09 kord1e

I am the one who has done most of the recent GUI daemon work, so assigning myself.

DemiMarie avatar Sep 17 '22 13:09 DemiMarie

Is duplicate of #5220 and #5781 ?

unman avatar Oct 04 '22 15:10 unman

@unman Duplicate of #5220 indeed, closing.

DemiMarie avatar Oct 04 '22 19:10 DemiMarie

This appears to be a duplicate of an existing issue. If so, please comment on the appropriate existing issue instead. If anyone believes this is not really a duplicate, please leave a comment briefly explaining why. We'll be happy to take another look and, if appropriate, reopen this issue. Thank you.

andrewdavidwong avatar Oct 05 '22 07:10 andrewdavidwong