Windows 10 clipboard problem

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I have a problem with the clipboard on Windows 10, installed via scripts: GitHub - ElliotKillick/qvm-create-windows-qube: Spin up new Windows qubes quickly, effortlessly and securely on Qubes OS

My version of Windows 10 is win10x64-enterprise-ltsc-eval

With other qubes, everything is fine, this problem is only with Windows 10

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You may have better results directly asking upstream

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Yes, I did it, it’s strange that I don’t see people here who have the same problem

P.S: https://github.com/ElliotKillick/qvm-create-windows-qube/issues/80

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I think I understand what the problem is, it’s a problem in QWT, the new version doesn’t have a clipboard, why remove it? And not to make a choice, so that if a person does not need it, then he himself remove it

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Therefore, to solve this problem, you need to uninstall QWT and install this version:
qubes-windows-tools-4.1.69 and reinstall Windows

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Note: Due to the security problems described in QSB-091, installation of Qubes Windows Tools is currently blocked. Instead, a text file containing a warning is displayed. Currently, it is difficult to estimate the severity of the risks posed by the sources of the Xen drivers used in QWT possibly being compromised, so it was decided not to offer direct QWT installation until this problem could be treated properly. While Windows qubes are, in Qubes, generally not regarded as being very trustworthy, a possible compromise of the Xen drivers used in Qubes Windows Tools might create a risk for Xen or dom0 and thus be dangerous for Qubes itself. This risk may be small or even non-existent, as stated in QSB-091. If you understand this risk and are willing to take it, you can still install the previous versions of Qubes Windows Tools, using the command

sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-windows-tools-4.1.68

for Qubes R4.1.2, or

sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-windows-tools-4.1.69

for Qubes R4.2.0, respectively, instead of the command listed in step 1 of the installation described below. This will provide the .iso file to be presented as an installation drive to the Windows qube in step 3 of the QWT installation.

If you prefer to download the corresponding .rpm files for manual QWT installation, these are still available from the repositories (version 4.1.68-1 for Qubes R4.1.2 and version 4.1.69-1 for Qubes R4.2.0). After downloading, copy the file to dom0 as described in How to copy from dom0 and install it via sudo dnf install /path/to/rpmfile. Now you can proceed according to step 3 of the description below.

Warning: These older versions of Qubes Windows Tools will be replaced during the next dom0 update by the current dummy version 4.1.70-1. This can be inhibited by appending the line exclude=qubes-windows-tools to the file /etc/dnf/dnf.conf in dom0. But this will also stop any further QWT updates - so be sure to remove this line when - hopefully - a new functional version 4.1.71-1 of Qubes Windows Tools will be made available!!!