Cryptomator: Unable to paste passphrase into Cryptomator

[overheadhunter]

User reported, that it is not possible under Linux Mint 17.3 to paste a passphrase generated with some 3rd party tool into the textfields of Cryptomator 1.0.3.

[tobihagemann]

Another user reported via email that it's not working with Ubuntu 16.10, when copying the password from KeePass. Weirdly enough it's possible to

• paste the password to a text editor first,
• copy the password from the text editor,
• paste the password to Cryptomator.

Not the prettiest workaround. 😅

[markuskreusch]

I guess KeePass may not privide the clipboard data in an "acceptable" DataFormat. Will check this.

[MegaphoneJon]

This is a known bug with KeePass, and isn't a Cryptomator bug. I would recommend closing this. See https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/bugs/1608/ and https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/bugs/1603/

Of note - I am NOT experiencing this problem on KeePass 2.34 on Ubuntu 16.10, and I didn't have to employ any workarounds. I DID experience this bug as recently as Ubuntu 16.04. Folks experiencing this issue on 16.10 are probably running KeePass 2.35 from a PPA.

[njfox]

Sorry to resurrect this issue, but installing the "xsel" package from the official Ubuntu repos fixed this issue for me on Mint 18.1. Hopefully that helps someone.