Meshcentral: Copy\Paste to and from client

[southeasterntech]

Need to be able to copy text to and from the client for executing large commands remotely

[whalehub]

I agree that this would be a very welcome feature.

[dmccracken-livewire]

I agree

[rodrigo-hissam]

Implementing copy/paste for the desktop tab like you have done for the terminal tab would be super useful indeed.

[jcam7044]

I agree as well.

[whalehub]

@Ylianst Are there any plans on implementing this feature?

[krayon007]

I'm actually testing this feature now. Working on getting it working on Linux, so we can release support for windows and Linux at the same time.

[krayon007]

I got it working/tested for Windows and Linux... I pushed the agent changes to GIT, and gave Ylian the necessary changes for the webapp to use it... Should be released soon... As a side note, on linux, I used both the PRIMARY and the CLIPBOARD buffer. It seems the primary (middle mouse button) is compatible with more apps when pasting...

[whalehub]

@krayon007 Awesome work! Can you push this in an update @Ylianst?

[krayon007]

By the way, on Linux, I put a 60 second timeout on the clipboard object, because unlike windows, Linux doesn't copy any memory to hold the clipboard contents, so I put a 60 second timeout on the clipboard object before I dereference it, so if you need to paste the same contents again after 60 seconds, you'll need to "resend" the clipboard from the browser. Windows doesn't have this issue, because the OS copies the clipboard contents.

[Ylianst]

Working on it.

[Ylianst]

Just published @MeshCentral v0.3.0-m with clipboard transfer support for Windows and Linux. Large and very difficult work done by Bryan to get this working on so many platforms. Linux is especially difficult. No MacOS support yet. Testing and feedback appreciated.

[whalehub]

@Ylianst @krayon007 Thanks for your hard work!

[Ylianst]

Thanks. I am going to close this one. Please open a new issue if anything comes up.