copy paste with enlightenment

[mostart]

Hi all,

running Windows XP as guest under Debian Lenny with enlightenment window manager I can't get copy paste to properly work in neither direction. It just seems to sometimes work and sometimes not.

Any hints ?

thanks
mostart

virtualbox 2.1.4

[mthode]

I had a similiar problem with awesomeWM.
There are two clipboards in xorg that I know of.
xsel -s | xsel &
takes your seccondary clipboard and pipes it into the first one. if that is not what you need, try the program 'xclip'

[mostart]

hmm.. intersting programms, but I cant see how one of them would help me. I think the problem is more transfering/sharing clipboard betwenn guest and host. Since copy and paste ist working in either of the two but not between the two.

[Sasquatch]

What are you copying between the two systems? Text is the only thing that is supported. You can't copy files and other binaries to and from the Guest.

[mostart]

no of course only text. I need to coopy text from xterm to the guest and vice versa for example.

[Sasquatch]

Have you tried it with a text editor? Xterm can have some strange clipboard rules. Try it with Firefox, copy it's URL for example.

[mostart]

of course I tried this also. But its the same. It seems to just work one time after the guest is booted and after that the clipboard keeps the first copied content.