#543 closed enhancement (implemented)

Add "Copy clipboard to Qubes clipboard" option to manager

Reported by: joanna Owned by: joanna
Priority: major Milestone: Release 1
Component: graphical-manager Keywords:
Cc: aga, marmarek

Description

... so that people can easily copy and paste e.g. logs from manager/dom0 to some VM where they have email client, and then send to qubes-devel :)

We could either provide a button in any of the logs viewer windows, or add a menu option in the manager's main menu and tray menu.

Change History (7)

comment:2 Changed 14 months ago by joanna

  • Resolution implemented deleted
  • Status changed from closed to reopened

The copy-to-qubes-clibboard button should, of course, be placed in the respective windows where logs are displayed, and not in the main manager toolbar, where it can only confuse the user.

comment:3 Changed 13 months ago by marmarek

Note that this button currently copy *dom0 clipboard* content to qubes clipboard. So IMHO there should be *additional* button "copy log to qubes clipboard" (placed in log viewer window of course). The current button still can be useful to copy output of some custom command (eg xl list or xl info).

comment:4 Changed 13 months ago by joanna

1) We need only *one* button that would do two things at once: copy the (displayed) log (from the log output) to Dom0 clipboard, and automatically copy this also to the Qubes clipboard.

2) Offering an option to copy arbitrary things from Dom0 to Qubes clipboard (and so to VMs) might not be the best security approach... I think we should assume that if somebody is going to hack around in the Dom0 terminal and wants to copy some arbitrary output from there (as opposed to the logs we expose in the manager), then this person should also go one step further in their terminal/qubes kung fu skills and also be able to copy this to the Qubes clipboard manually. And we can tell in the wiki how to do that.

comment:5 Changed 13 months ago by aga

1) We need only *one* button that would do two things at once: copy the (displayed) log (from the log output) to Dom0 clipboard, and automatically copy this also to the Qubes clipboard.

Why not copy the displayed text to the Qubes clipboard directly? (Thus ommitting copying it to Dom0 clipboard).

comment:6 Changed 13 months ago by joanna

Yes, of course.

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