Interacting with the clipboard from the command line

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  1. In an AppVM, how do I interact with the global clipboard, directly from the command line? there doesn’t seem to be a relevant qrexec service for it
  2. In dom0, how do I interact with the local clipboard? the normal utilities for it don’t seem to be installed, like xclip or xsel, and I’d like to follow the security advice to not install any new software.

Thanks

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What is “interact”? What exactly do you want to do?

In a qube, the only “interaction” is the ability to copy the last entry
from the global clipboard to the local.
In dom0, there is no reason why you should not add clipboard utilities
if you so wish, but as you should do little work in dom0 it does not
seem worth while.

I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.

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One useful thing in dom0 would be to xclip the contents of a policy file, for example, when debugging with someone else

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Indeed, interacting here refers to moving data between the local clipboard of an AppVM, and the global one. There are two keyboard shortcuts for those operations (the default ones are Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V). Do you know how we can trigger this using the command line instead?