My global copy+paste doesn't work anymore, how do I fix that?

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Hello,
I tried uninstalling and installing again sys-usb, just because it wasn’t detecting my printer that I bought.
After that, couldn’t really login into qubes again, my keyboard and mouse stopped working, everytime I login my computer I put command into grubloader qubes.skip_autostart Everytime I CTRL+SHIFT+C it copies my text, but it doesn’t paste between qubes, it shows that i copied for example 20 letters.

Please help me, I’m tired of this. How do I fix my keyboard and mouse, to function without the autostart command too

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After doing the CTRL+SHIFT+C in source qube and confirming it is copied to Global Clipboard (the example 20 letters you mentioned), then in the destination qube, you have to press CTRL+SHIFT+V before actually pasting (e.g. with CTRL+V).

Please confirm if you have done this.

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Yes, I confirm, I’m trying to do that but seems like not working at all after I cracked the things up with sys-usb.

I know that i should ctrl+shift+v, but doesn’t paste, I tried also restarting qubes-daemon-policy or smth called like that, but seems to not work too

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Is this a r4.2 or r4.3rc2 installation?

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4.2 Qubes

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Check the Qubes Global Config → Clipboard tab, maybe you have a warning there or you changed the paste keyboard shortcut or added a custom policy.
Also run this command in dom0 terminal:

sudo journalctl -f -n0

And try copy/paste the text to/from global clipboard, then check if you’ll see any policy errors in the command output.

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I ran this command, nothing actually happened, terminal was clear as it was before, then tried to copy paste with terminal opened, nothing happened at all too