How to change the keys for secure copy and paste between VM’s ?

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How to change the keys for secure copy and paste between VM’s ?

I have tried to change the keys in this file: etc/qubes/guid.conf to Ctrl + Alt + C and Crtl + Alt + V But that didn’t work. Maybe because it isn’t possible to use the Alt key here as it isn’t listed as a “valid modifier key name” according to the text in the file.

As my dom0 both uses the Ctrl + Shift and Ctrl + Win combination to something different, I need to change the combination for secure copy and paste. How do I do that ?

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According to the following page, it should be possible to change the keys used for secure copy and paste text between different domains:

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/copy-paste/#shortcut-configuration

But now I have tried to change the keys for secure copy and paste to “Shift-Mod4-C” and “Shift-Mod4-V”. And restart the pc afterwards. But that didn’t help either.

So I still can’t copy and paste text between different domains.

So it seems to be a bug that needs fixing...

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Here (https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5707) I got told by Andrew David Wong that it is needed to delete the “#” sign on the edited lines to change their status from a comment to a script that is going to be executed.

So here are the steps to change the key combination for secure copy and paste:

1. Write this in the dom0 terminal (you might have to use root access): nano etc/qubes/guid.conf
2. Change “Ctrl-Shift-c” to for example “Shift-Mod4-c”  (Mod4 is the Win key)
3. Change “Ctrl-Shift-v” to for example “Shift-Mod4-v”
4. Delete the “#” sign in the beginning of this/these line(s) (to change there status to a executive script).
5. Save the file by pressing Ctrl + X, press Y and then Enter.
6. Restart the pc to begin using the new key combination for secure copy and paste.

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It worked.

And it’s also possible to use the Alt key instead in the key combination for secure copy and paste. Just write “Alt” instead of one of the other keys.