Bug 805174 - RFE: add client -> guest plaintext copy paste via keyboard
Summary: RFE: add client -> guest plaintext copy paste via keyboard
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: virt-viewer
Version: 6.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
low
Target Milestone: beta
: 6.3
Assignee: Daniel Berrangé
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-20 15:56 UTC by David Jaša
Modified: 2012-03-21 03:50 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-03-20 16:09:21 UTC
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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
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