Re: vnc clipboard support

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 12:34:32PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 12:28 PM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Well.  That is a completely different level of desktop integration.
> > It surely makes sense to have that, and dbus-over-vsock looks like
> > a reasonable choice.
> >
> 
> (using vsock & dbus also goes in the direction where UIs and remote server
> can run in different processes and come and go btw)
> 
> But I'm more after a solution for the "paste that long link into the
> > guest firefox" problem, without putting everything upside-down 😊
> >
> 
> In this case, I would say an agent-less text-to-type solution (even with
> its very limited scope) is quite attractive.

If you want to implement clipboard paste using text-to-type, then there
is no work required at all in QEMU. That can be done in the VNC client
simply by sending keystrokes. Even for something moderately short like
a URL though this is quite painfully slow because you need a sleep
between each keystroke to avoid overflowing the keyboard driver input
buffers


Regards,
Daniel
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