Meshcentral: Feature Request/Question: Shared Clipboard

Created on 8 Aug 2020 · 13Comments · Source: Ylianst/MeshCentral

The manual set/get clipboard feature seems to be working very well so far but can be a little user-unfriendly at times. Are there any plans to implement a more transparent "shared" clipboard mode? Is this even feasible through a browser or would the method to poll and replace the clipboard need to be repeated so frequently for this to work that it just wouldn't be efficient?

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PetieM

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Just published MeshCentral v0.6.6. The new MeshCentral Router has a built-in remote desktop viewer. It's not great yet, plenty of things are not right, but since this viewer is not web based, there are more options for clipboard sync, etc.

MC2-RemoteDesktopInRouter

Ylianst on 12 Aug 2020

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It's not possible to do this thru the browser as having a web application grab the clipboard automatically would be a security issue. This said, I am going to leave this one open since I had some related work I wanted to do.

Ylianst on 9 Aug 2020

Makes sense. I had a feeling there was something preventing this from happening transparently. Thanks for the clarification regardless.

PetieM on 9 Aug 2020

southeasterntech on 10 Aug 2020

MC2-RemoteDesktopInRouter

Ylianst on 12 Aug 2020

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Have tried it - looks a great option, but still no clipboard transfer between client and my PC - both directions .....
Also, on multiscreen client - may a screen split option be added please, so if 2 screens are on client PC so viewer can split on 2 different windows? I think it will be an amazing option! Just my thoughts :)
Sample :

vitko-bg on 13 Aug 2020

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It's not possible to do this thru the browser as having a web application grab the clipboard automatically would be a security issue. This said, I am going to leave this one open since I had some related work I wanted to do.

@Ylianst I have to offer a correction here. It is possible and has been for some time. This is the browser API that makes it possible, which is supported by virtually all modern browsers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard_API

An example of an open-source web application which uses this API for real-time two-way clipboard synchronization is Neko: https://github.com/nurdism/neko

I recorded a little clip to show what it looks like in action: https://xbb.datahoarder.dev/VUSu3/cEnAXEri49.webm

whalehub on 14 Aug 2020

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Oh my!!! I have to check this out. Thank you for the information. Also, the multi-display selector on the MeshCentral Router Desktop Viewer should work now, it's been fixed in a later version.

Ylianst on 19 Aug 2020

@Ylianst You're welcome. 👍

whalehub on 19 Aug 2020

Hi @Ylianst , when you say the multi-display selector on the MeshCentral Router Desktop Viewer should work now, it's been fixed in a later version. what did you meant?
Just tried it now with the latest MC version 0.6.13, redownloaded MC Router - and it is still the same - no clipboard is captured both directions ......
BTW - shall I open another enhancement issue in regards to Split Screen view? Thanks.

vitko-bg on 19 Aug 2020

@vitko-bg I don't understand your comment. There is no clipboard sync yet in MeshCentral Router, this is normal, I did not build that yet. Does the multi-display selector work?

Ylianst on 19 Aug 2020

Sorry @Ylianst - I thought it is releasead :) because in your comment about viewer you mentioned there are more options for clipboard sync, etc. Did not know that it is not implemented yet.
In regards to multi-display - yes, it is working fine, but only when MC Router is started as administrator. Possibly it is related to file location, in my case it is in Program Files/ Mesh Agent
When MC Router is started as normal user(let's say from MC webUI-> Lauch Router) - cannot connect to any of the devices ....