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By: Tom

Seems to me that VirtualBox should be taking care of this better, much like the VNC clients do.

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By: Gerard H. Pille

The only way I managed to copy from Linux Guest to Windows Host, while using fluxbox, was to add the following line to my .fluxbox/keys Control Insert :Exec xsel | xsel -i -b Thanks for the xsel hint,...

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By: Lex

This annoyed the heck out of me too, so I hacked together a method of synchronizing the primary selection between host and VM. See github:lexelby/vbox-sync-selection.

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By: norbert

In reply to Lex. Hey Lex. Nice python scripting. Excellent work.

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By: Lex

Watch out for the current version -- if you highlight twice in rapid succession, the scripts start fighting in a loop for the clipboard. I'll push a new version tomorrow that avoids looping.

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