So, I’m a bit unsure about how to properly search for this, but I did take a look under the general settings for the clipboard, and from what I can tell, it says that copying from any Qube to any other Qube should work by default. However, I’m running into an issue when I’m using Whonix—particularly when I’ve got a VM with its Net Qube set to sys-whonix. Basically, I’m not able to copy anything out of those containers into others that I want to send data to.
I’m assuming this has something to do with Whonix’s added isolation for security? Does anyone know how I could configure it so I can copy stuff out of Whonix? Also, what’s the recommended way to set up a separate Tor-based container for tasks that need extra privacy? (I was playing around with setting the Net Qube to sys-whonix for this purpose.) I just started digging into this today and skimming through the docs, so if anyone has a good article or guideline on this, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks a ton!
It just doesn’t copy over. I’ve tried with both CTRL+C and CTRL+SHIFT+C and WIN+C, which is what I changed it to last. Yet, when I change Net Qube to default it works just fine. I’m unsure of what to look since it’s a global setting that’s not working.
Ahh, you are talking about global clipboard. Just to be sure. You copy (Ctrl C) in the qube, then shift Ctrl C. Then switch to the other qube, shift Ctrl V then Ctrl V ? (If you are using the defaults)
When you do it, you should see a pop up notification (similar to when you start a qube) when you move in and out of global clipboard as well as a quantity of bytes. If there is nothing in the normal clipboard then it can’t be put in global clipboard
What notification do you see when you try to copy clipboard from Whonix qube?
Run this command in dom0:
journalctl -f -n0 -u qubes-qrexec-policy-daemon
Then try to copy the clipboard from the Whonix qube to the Global Clipboard and check if there will be any errors in the dom0 command output.
You can stop the command execution in dom0 by pressing Ctrl+C.