Notification shown when I send something to the global clipboard is gone

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The notification shown when I send something to the global clipboard is gone, should I fill an issue or is it expected?

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This one? Works for me

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Could you please be more specific. Does this happen when you copy something to global clipboard from dom0, AppVMs, HVMs, …

p.s.: It was me who wrote the new notifications (or I am the person to blame). So it would be most probably me who should solve the related bugs. I am OK with reports on Github or forum.

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Weird then, I don’t have it.

I’ll write a bug report with required information :wink: it was from a fedora-42-xfce AppVM, nothing fancy.

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Could you please try to do it again and then look at dom0 and see if any of the blow files exists (and what would be their content):

/run/qubes/qubes-clipboard.bin
/run/qubes/qubes-clipboard.bin.metadata
/run/qubes/qubes-clipboard.bin.source
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I did shutdown my testing computer since then, and when I tried again it worked :woman_shrugging: sorry for the noise

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Seems this is because your issue has spread to my computer… I rebooted and now I don’t get notifications for copying to the qubes global clipboard (although the copy-paste functionality does still work, just without the notifs).

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cc @Atrate

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After copying (vm → global)

user@dom0 ~ % cat /run/qubes/qubes-clipboard.bin
Could you please try to do it again and then look at dom0 and see if any of the blow files exists (and what would be their content):%

user@dom0 ~ % cat /run/qubes/qubes-clipboard.bin.metadata 
{
"vmname":"redacted",
"xevent_timestamp":2405272,
"successful":1,
"copy_action":1,
"paste_action":0,
"malformed_request":0,
"oversized_request":0,
"cleared":0,
"qrexec_clipboard":0,
"sent_size":132,
"buffer_size":64000,
"protocol_version_xside":65544,
"protocol_version_vmside":65544
}

user@dom0 ~ % cat /run/qubes/qubes-clipboard.bin.source  
redacted%

After pasting (global → vm, different string):

All files empty except the following one:

cat /run/qubes/qubes-clipboard.bin.metadata 
{
"vmname":"redacted",
"xevent_timestamp":2405272,
"successful":1,
"copy_action":0,
"paste_action":1,
"malformed_request":0,
"oversized_request":0,
"cleared":1,
"qrexec_clipboard":0,
"sent_size":43,
"buffer_size":64000,
"protocol_version_xside":65544,
"protocol_version_vmside":65544
}

I changed the name of the VM to “redacted” :slight_smile:

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Ok. This shows GUI agent (within the qube) and GUI daemon (within dom0 or GUIVM) is working fine. I assume you do not have a dedicated GUIVM.

The problem should be with the Global Clipboard widget. I appreciate if you could do this:

  1. Stop the running widget:
systemctl --user stop qubes-widget@qui-clipboard.service
  1. Run it manually in terminal
/usr/bin/widget-wrapper qui-clipboard
  1. Do some copy pastes to/from global clipboard and observe if widget prints any error in terminal
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Well, as is often the case with bugs, running it manually made the notifications appear :slight_smile: Yay for easy debugging…

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Indeed this provides valuable feedback. This confirms that the issue lays with the widget. Not the background mechanism.

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