Post #4092267

2026-07-25 16:43 UTC

@techsinger@tweesecake.social @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com I'm a bit confused with regard to the virtual machines bit. When I copy something to the clipboard in either machine, I can easily copy it to the other i.e. from virtual to physical, because it carries over between the two. As for the rest, though, that would certainly be an improvement. Does it copy files as well, or just text? If it works with files, that is a huge deal!

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@techsinger@tweesecake.social 2026-07-25 16:57

@dandylover1@someplace.social @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com I agree about the clipboard from one host to its own guest or guests. The difficulty comes in when you have, say, three hosts each running a guest or two. I want to copy from host A to a VM, but the VM is on host B. In the normal course, I would have to copy the text to host A's clipboard, send it to host B (nvda remote, clip.txt on a shared folder, something), and then get it on the clipboard of host B so it gets to the VM on that host. With CM, I just have it on all the VMs. I go to the VM, hit ctrl+alt+backslash, and it's there. As for files, it doesn't do that over the network. I don't know if I'd use it if it did, I prefer my current workflow for files.

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