Xdotool key ctrl+shift+c

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Hello
I am trying to automate ctrl+shift+c so it triggers everytime i ctrl+c
but i tried xdotool key ctrl+shift+c in both my appvm and dom0 however qubes simply does not trigger the usual ctrl+shift+c

help

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Qubes Clipboard™ is painful

I created shortcuts in Keyboard → Shortcuts: /bin/bash -c "sleep 0.2 && xdotool key ctrl+c && sleep 0.2 && xdotool key ctrl+shift+c" for copy and write to interVM-clipboard /bin/bash -c "sleep 0.2 && xdotool key ctrl+shift+v && sleep 0.2 && xdtool key ctrl+v" for read, wipe and paste And it’s working sometimes! Not smoothly (to the point of “unusable”, 50% times it’s just does not work and idk why) and some apps are ignoring these methods, but still. Probably I could achieve same goal more s…

Qubes Clipboard™ is painful

by the way, you mistyped it in the second scrip thx edited (typo cause there’s no way to copypaste from dom0) One reason this might not work is that your modifier key (Win?) for this is still depressed while the script is being executed. Actually I tried it with Ctrl+Alt+,. and Ctrl+C\V (but concern on key being pressed is still reasonable). Just for testing if you increase the first sleep to 1 second and make sure that you don’t press any keys when this is executed, does the situation …

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@apparatus so INSIDE dom0 keyboard app, i bind ctrl+c to
/bin/bash -c "sleep 0.1 && xdotool key ctrl && sleep 0.1 && xdotool key ctrl+c && sleep 0.1 && xdotool key ctrl+shift+c"

right? ill try again tomorrow. i wonder why this would work but my cmd didnt, linux is so arbitrary

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so INSIDE dom0 keyboard app, i bind ctrl+c to

But with Ctrl+C as a trigger this does not work at all

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@apparatus why not? i can just set it to ctrl as the trigger then

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I don’t know, I didn’t try it myself.