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Bug 967077

Summary: [RFE] Option to configure Windows spice client to populate both the selection buffer AND the clipboard in linux guests
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Allie DeVolder <adevolder>
Component: mingw-virt-viewerAssignee: Marc-Andre Lureau <marcandre.lureau>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.1.0CC: aadamjee, acathrow, adevolder, byount, cfergeau, cpelland, dasimmon, dblechte, iheim, lpeer, luvilla, lyarwood, mkrcmari
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: FutureFeature, Improvement
Target Release: 3.5.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: spice
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Last Closed: 2014-05-26 12:03:43 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1142923, 1156165    

Comment 1 Marc-Andre Lureau 2013-07-10 18:39:52 UTC 
Is this going to be configured via a controller and/or mime, or config file, or registry, or just an environment variable or argument would be enough?

The easier for us would be via an env such as SPICE_CLIPBOARD_FILL_BOTH. Making this visible to the UI doesn't seem like a good idea.
Comment 2 David Blechter 2013-08-21 18:42:58 UTC 
moving to 3.4

Is the request still relevant? If yes, then why no reply on needinfo for about 2 months. If not, then the reporter should close the bug
Comment 3 Allie DeVolder 2013-08-23 13:17:43 UTC 
(In reply to Marc-Andre Lureau from comment #1)
> Is this going to be configured via a controller and/or mime, or config file,
> or registry, or just an environment variable or argument would be enough?
> 
> The easier for us would be via an env such as SPICE_CLIPBOARD_FILL_BOTH.
> Making this visible to the UI doesn't seem like a good idea.

The customer would like a UI option if possible, but I agree that it might not be a good idea.
Comment 11 Marc-Andre Lureau 2014-02-20 15:18:26 UTC 
RFC patch sent:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2014-February/016196.html

Imho, it would be better to find a solution outside of spice-gtk. The customer problem doesn't seem to be specific to spice. Perhaps we should have a small X daemon or configuration to populate all clipboards instead...
Comment 22 Marc-Andre Lureau 2014-05-26 12:03:43 UTC 
Closing for now, since this is not a job for Spice client, and should be done by guest.

Clipboards can be sync with a small helper such as: http://elmarco.fedorapeople.org/clipsync.py