Copy/paste is not working on XRDP

[Abinayasandhiya]

Hi,

We are using XRDP to connect our RedHat6 and RedHat7 machine.
Sometimes we could face sudden issue in XRDP that copy/paste is not working form window to XRDP server.
Please find below server and XRDP details:

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[root@GUI ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)

[root@GUI ~]$ rpm -qa | grep xrdp
xorgxrdp-0.2.5-3.el7.x86_64
xrdp-debuginfo-0.9.5-1.el7.x86_64
xrdp-devel-0.9.5-1.el7.x86_64
xrdp-0.9.5-2.el7.x86_64

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Anyone please help me to fix this issue.

Regards,
Abinaya

[Abinayasandhiya]

Can anyone help me on this.

[rkantos]

I think I also have experienced this lately on Ubuntu 18.04 (Xrdp version 0.9.5)

I't seems it usually occurs when a session goes in to the "locked" screen or a screensaver. When I reconnect with the desktop session not yet timed out, clipboard works normally. Is this something that could be fixed in xrdp ? Maybe Windows rdp client limitation?

Edit: The problem also occurs when connected to a xrdp session and the desktop timeouts to a screensaver... I'm beginning to think there is something that can be changed easily to fix this.

[Abinayasandhiya]

Hi,

Can we get any help here.

[GGGunrunner]

Having the same issue.... I have xrdp on Raspberry Raspbian and connect to it from Windows (default mstsc client).

Pasting works from Windows to Pi, but not backwards...

[rkantos]

Having the same issue.... I have xrdp on Raspberry Raspbian and connect to it from Windows (default mstsc client).

Pasting works from Windows to Pi, but not backwards...

Please attach at least your version information. I have had copy-paste working both ways with XRDP for at least since the last major issues was fixed. Now there just seems to be something happening with either the Windows client or XRDP that disables copy-paste one way or both ways when the connection has gone in to (sleep?) mode..

[godmuzguit7]

@rkantos I have the same issue as you described, but in Centos 7.

As soon as the lock screen comes up, it is not possible to copy/paste between Windows 7 and my Centos desktop without first reconnecting via RDP.

Have you already found something?

Thanks,

[Abinayasandhiya]

Hello,

We could see latest version of XRDP in https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/releases page.
On Bug fixes i could see the latest version fix COPY SLOW issue.

we are having COPY/PASTE issue (XRDP version is 0.9.6) from windows to RDP server and still issue is persist.

Can you confirm if we use this latest version of XRDP did it resolve COPY/PASTE issue.

Please provide some details here also this ticket seems opened like last 15 days.

[godmuzguit7]

Hello, the issue is not resolved for the moment, even with the new version.

The issue is still there when the session is locked, the clipboard doesn't work. We have to reconnect in order to be able to paste data in the password field.

Thanks for your help,

[rkantos]

Could we get a new title for this? Someone can probably come up with a more accurate one, but it seems the issue occurs after xrdp has gone idle. Thus I suggest “Copy paste not working after session has been idle or resumed”. Anyobody got an idea for debugging?

Hello, the issue is not resolved for the moment, even with the new version.

The issue is still there when the session is locked, the clipboard doesn’t work. We have to reconnect in order to be able to paste data in the password field.

Thanks for your help,

Why would you expect anything different? The isue still open, and thus unresolved...

[godmuzguit7]

Can you confirm if we use this latest version of XRDP did it resolve COPY/PASTE issue.

I expected the new version to possibly resolve the issue, but it's not the case.

I would expect something different because nobody answered to @Abinayasandhiya about the new version.

Thanks,

[Abinayasandhiya]

Is there any possible way to fix this copy/paste issue between Linux RDP server and windows.

This is absolutely important issue which is need to be fix earlier, otherwise xrdp almost not usable.

[Abinayasandhiya]

Hello All,

Finally copy/paste issue has been fixed when try to access our XRDP server using updated RDP client.

Update RDP client will have option like "Detect connection quality automatically" which will detect automatic quality for our connection.

Now my RDP client is updated to version 6.3.9600.16415.
with new client version the copy/paste issue did not more occur.