[vbox-dev] Shared clipboard support disabled on Linux guests in 6.1.4 (and trunk)

[Frank Batschulat]

Thanks a lot for jumping onto that problem so quickly.

On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:32:36 +0100, Andrew Caldwell  
<Andrew.Caldwell at metaswitch.com> wrote:

> Done, thanks!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Batschulat <frank.batschulat at oracle.com>
> Sent: 26 February 2020 13:12
> To: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org; Andrew Caldwell  
> <Andrew.Caldwell at metaswitch.com>
> Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Shared clipboard support disabled on Linux  
> guests in 6.1.4 (and trunk)
>
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> Nice spot, can you please update
>
> Ticket #19336 (new defect)
> Linux guest: shared clipboard doesn't work (on fresh
> VirtualBox-6.1.4-136177)
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> with your evaluation, if you don't have an account let me know and I'll  
> update it on your behalf.
>
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 13:48:49 +0100, Andrew Caldwell  
> <Andrew.Caldwell at metaswitch.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It appears that the code that starts up the Xserver integration for
>> clipboard handling is commented out, both in the 6.1.4 guest additions
>> and in the master codebase, the `vboxClipboardConnect` function is
>> wrapped in `#if 0 ... #endif` and the callsite is replaced with `int
>> rc = 0` (in place of `int rc = vboxClipboardConnect()`).
>>
>> This means that starting `VBoxClient -clipboard` spawns a process that
>> sleeps for 60 seconds then shuts down and provides no clipboard
>> integration whatsoever.
>>
>> This wasn't documented in the 6.1.4 changelog, and the way the code's
>> laid out suggests that this is a work in progress that's snuck into
>> trunk?
>>
>> A
>
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> frankB
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