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Clipboard sharing does not work in some applications #159

Open kota65535 opened 7 years ago

kota65535 commented 7 years ago

I'm using IntelliJ IDEA IDE on guest Linux machine on Windows host. When I copy some lines in the editor pane, clipboard sharing successfully works and the content can be pasted both in the guest and the host. Very useful! But when I try to copy the content from the tool window of IntelliJ IDEA, the content can be pasted only in the guest (Linux) but cannot pasted to the host (Windows).

This problem is also reported in the JetBrain issue tracker at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-141332, but no progress.

Why does this happen?

oliverkurth commented 7 years ago

Thank you for reporting. I filed an internal bug for this. I hope you will hear back from us.

Can you please provide the version of tools that you are using, and which Linux distribution? Did you install packages provided by the OS distributor, or build open-vm-tools yourself?

norbertwnuk commented 1 year ago

This issue is still there, Ubuntu 22.04 / IDEA 2023.1.4 / open-vm-tools 2:12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.04.1 The easiest way to recreate it is to right click on any given file in the Project view on the left side, select 'Copy path / reference'. Clipboard value will be available inside the guest, but not for the host. Normal selection of the file content works OK for both IDEA and other tools (e.g., gedit) The notes in the IDEA defect above indicates that might be a combination of both the way how IDEA updates timestamps for clipboard content and open-vm-tools behavior since VirtualBox 6.1 is not affected.