There are plenty of components involved in "trying" to fix this by spice upstream. The discussion in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/-/issues/9 is rather long. It eventually seems to be fixed in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/-/merge_requests/4 I think we have all components in place, except the spice-vdagent 0.20 and maybe spice-protocol 14.1.
The series of fixes for spcie-vdagent linked there would be: e0bfa67 configure: bump gtk+ >= 3.22 2c72378 clipboard: remove vdagent-selection-id usage 79d0125 configure: depend on gobject ff30f58 configure: bump gobject >= 2.50 fb69a49 vdagent: use G_OPTION_FLAG_NONE aa26d1d clipboard: gobject-ify VDAgentClipboards 2ad6c15 clipboard: filter out only our own events c9e8067 clipboard: only send release when no immediate grab a2fc33c clipboard: implement CAP_CLIPBOARD_GRAB_SERIAL >From https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent.git Our libglib2.0-dev and libgtk-3-dev are new enough as well. But spice-protocol needs: 045a6978 vdagent: introduce VD_AGENT_CAP_CLIPBOARD_GRAB_SERIAL 4f397d69 vdagent: introduce VD_AGENT_CAP_CLIPBOARD_NO_RELEASE_ON_REGRAB That is in 0.14.1 which only is in Ubuntu 20.10 already, but not in Focal (14.0 there). I'd expect that 0.20 would not even build without spice-protocol 0.14.1 since the definition of VD_AGENT_CAP_CLIPBOARD_GRAB_SERIAL is missing. Well it might skip it safely. But the report of lwk32 says building 0.20 is fixing his issue, so let us give it a try. We cant take: a2fc33c clipboard: implement CAP_CLIPBOARD_GRAB_SERIAL c9e8067 clipboard: only send release when no immediate grab without this change to spice-protocol which is hard to SRU. The rest of the patches applies cleanly, but I'm unsure if there can be any gain without these final commits. @lwk32 would you mind giving the PPA [1] a try with an otherwise unmodified Ubuntu 20.04 if that fixes the issue for you as well? P.S. We might want to wait until the more clear fix in bug 1852183 lands to not mix results of verifications of -proposed - but we can sniff things right now based on the PPA. [1]: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/4060 ** Bug watch added: gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/-/issues #9 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/-/issues/9 ** Also affects: spice-protocol (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: spice-protocol (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: spice-protocol (Ubuntu Focal) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to spice-vdagent in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872527 Title: Clipboard doesn't work 100% of the time in Ubuntu 20.04 (in KVM guests) Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in spice package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in spice-protocol package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in spice-vdagent package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in virt-manager package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in spice-protocol source package in Focal: Incomplete Status in spice-vdagent source package in Focal: Triaged Status in spice-vdagent package in Debian: Fix Released Status in spice package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/issues/9 --- I'm testing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Beta. I installed Kubuntu 20.04 and virt-manager as I did many times on Ubuntu 18.04. Unfortunatelly when I run a VM (QEMU-KVM, libvirt, libspice-server1 and spice-vdagent) with another Kubuntu 20.04 guest or with Ubuntu 20.04 guest then clipboard doesn't work right. To test it, please install Kubuntu 20.04 and then install Kubuntu / Ubuntu 20.04 as VM (guest). Open some simple text editor and start Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V plain text. 90% of time it will work and 10% of time it won't. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: virt-manager 1:2.2.1-3ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-21.25-generic 5.4.27 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu26 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Mon Apr 13 15:02:22 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-09 (4 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Beta amd64 (20200401) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: virt-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1872527/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
