Bug 805174

Summary:	RFE: add client -> guest plaintext copy paste via keyboard
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	David Jaša <djasa>
Component:	virt-viewer	Assignee:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.3	CC:	mzhan, rwu, yupzhang, zpeng
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	6.3
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Description David Jaša 2012-03-20 15:56:55 UTC

Description of problem:
When connected to agent-less session, it would be nice to have at least one way copy-paste of plain text that could be performed by transformation of the copied string to keyboard events and sending it through inputs channel. I guess that menu option to initiate paste would have to be added as well.

Use case are mainly virtualized servers with no x-server installed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.5.x

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. have a linux guest, switch it to terminal
2. try to paste text
3.
  
Actual results:
nothing happens

Expected results:
text is pasted

Additional info:

Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2012-03-20 16:09:21 UTC

This approach has been explicitly rejected upstream:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-vnc-list/2010-December/msg00005.html