Feature: Server-to-client copy/paste would be nice

[KJ7LNW]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I am unable to copy from Android and paste locally to my desktop.

Describe the solution you'd like

Support copy-paste of plain-text content

Describe alternatives you've considered

Even if I have to paste the text into a "clipboard transfer" box on the droidVNC-NG app itself, that would be ok, but even better if you can transfer the clipboard as soon as text is copied!

Additional context

If this is actually known to work, then let me know I should troubleshoot.

Thanks!

[bk138]

Please see the third bullet point in https://github.com/bk138/droidVNC-NG#features: Android keeps services/apps from getting clipboard data. We could have the "clipboard transfer" box you suggested, that would work but probably be not very good UX :-/

I'm keeping this open as it might relate to #4

[KJ7LNW]

Interesting point.

I'd like to highlight this from the original post above:

Even if I have to paste the text into a "clipboard transfer" box on the droidVNC-NG app itself, that would be ok, but even better if you can transfer the clipboard as soon as text is copied!

This was my case:

I used my phone to scan a QR code with TOTP keys, but wanted to securely transfer the (very long) key to my desk without re-typing it. So I setup ssh forwarding and tried droidVNC-NG hoping clipboard would work.

For this example I would be fine pasting it into a dedicated "clipboard" textarea of the droidVNC-NG app itself, so it fills the clipboard on my VNC desktop client, so I can paste to my desk.

[freebrowser1]

Weird, for me this did work.
Using RealVNC viewer on macOS copying text from Android (OnePlus 6 running Android 10) to my Mac did work.

[ElishaAz]

KDEConnect solved the Android 10 problem by opening an invisible activity that retrieves the clipboard: https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-android/blob/master/src/org/kde/kdeconnect/Plugins/ClibpoardPlugin/ClipboardFloatingActivity.java
This can only be done on-demand, but is still much better than having to paste it into a text field

[bk138]

Note to self: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/accessibility/AccessibilityEvent#TYPE_VIEW_TEXT_SELECTION_CHANGED