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Mike Jumper commented on GUACAMOLE-1282:
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I agree that this should be a very intentional and very manual feature. IMHO: a
simple, clean button by the clipboard in the menu that says "Send with
Keyboard" (or similar). This would mean that sending the local clipboard
contents via keyboard events would be as easy as opening the menu and clicking
a button.
An overall option to (somehow) automatically handle all clipboard pastes via
the keyboard just isn't safely possible. Determining whether the user's
keyboard and mouse interactions mean they are attempting to paste would be
guesswork, and getting that guess wrong would result in complete mayhem.
It would be like having a cat run across your keyboard whenever you hit Ctrl+V.
> Add option to send key events instead of accessing the remote clipboard
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>
> Key: GUACAMOLE-1282
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-1282
> Project: Guacamole
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: guacamole
> Reporter: Lucio Mitsuru Seki
> Priority: Major
>
> Currently Guacamole relies on the VNC protocol's clipboard forwarding to send
> clipboard contents to the remote machine connected through VNC.
> This does not work when the connection is to a QEMU/KVM guest machine through
> the QEMU/KVM built-in VNC server, as it does not have access to the guest
> machine's clipboard.
> In such case, if a user wants to access the remote machine's clipboard,
> he/she needs to run a VNC server in the guest machine and ask the
> hypervisor's administrator to perform the necessary port redirection. This is
> not user friendly, and it's not always possible to do so.
> It would be nice to have an option in Guacamole Menu (Ctrl+Alt+Shift) to
> toggle between sending the clipboard contents:
> a) through VNC protocol's clipboard API; or
> b) by sending keystrokes
> This way, the user can choose to send keystroke events to the remote machine,
> and he/she will be able to paste clipboard contents on remote machines
> running as QEMU/KVM guests.
> *Original discussion*
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/guacamole-user/202102.mbox/browser
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