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Re: vnc clipboard support
From: |
Gerd Hoffmann |
Subject: |
Re: vnc clipboard support |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:49:03 +0100 |
Hi,
> - What I'm suggesting is that qemu-vnc could then switch to simply
> relaying VNC traffic to that in-guest server. You'd get the smart update
> algorithm that Apple has put in place to deal with transparency and the
> like, as well as a level of guest OS integration that would otherwise be
> much harder to replicate.
Ok, so basically add a vnc proxy mode and allow switching between
internals server and proxy mode (automatically if possible, or
manually).
> If you don't have it, you fallback to virtual keystrokes, which you can't
> dispense with because of the early boot case, but which will at best
> deal with simple ASCII (making that work with a clipboard containing
> tabs and Control-C/Control-V characters is left as an exercise for the
> reader ;-)
Well, even simple ascii is tricky. How do you send 'z', as KEY_Z or as
KEY_Y ?
> Finally, an optimization I alluded to is to have an agent which is basically
> a stripped-down VNC server dealing with only the clipboard aspect, and
> that is your agent. In other words, you don't' invent yet another protocol,
> but you furiously copy-paste the existing VNC code.
Third mode: proxy only clipboard messages.
> Hope this sounds a bit less crazy explained that way…
Well, I can't see a way to make all that work nicely fully automatic ...
take care,
Gerd
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