Paste not working from one appvm to another appvm's bash (4.0)

[s.w.i.m....@gmail.com]

I have a Fedora minimal install hat I need to copy a very long cipher key into it's terminal from a file on another appvm. In the source appvm I can hit Ctl+C then Ctl+Shift+C and it will say 1Kb copied from 'appvm'. Going into the destination appvm xterm window (using passwordless sudo, qvm-run -u root 'appvm' xterm) I cannot paste using Ctl+V or Ctl+Shift+V. It will say "Qubes clipboard has been copied to the VM and wiped" but nothing prints into Xterm.

Right clicking in the window does nothing.
My keyboard does not have an Insert key, I read somewhere that can be used.
I also do not have a middle mouse key, again, somewhere online said that could be used as well.

Is there some way I can do this? I have already tried transcribing the cipher but the length of the cipher makes error checking nearly impossible without going crazy.

Destination vm is a Fedora 27 minimal install with only qubes-core-agent-networking installed and the particular program I wanted to install on it. There didnt seem to be a specific 'clipboard' qubes dependency to install.

[Sven Semmler]

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On 12/4/18 6:06 PM, s.w.i.m....@gmail.com wrote:
> I also do not have a middle mouse key, again, somewhere online
> said that could be used as well.

Yep, that's how I do it

> Is there some way I can do this?

Sure.

1) pipe the output of the program that prints the cypher into a file...

# my_cipher_program > cipher_output.sh

2) send that text file to the other qube via

# qvm-copy cipher_output.sh

3) in the target qube, edit the ciper_output.sh file to contain only
the cipher and before that whatever command line statement this cipher
is a parameter to.

4) make the script executable

# chmod +x ciper_output.sh

5) run it

# ./ciper_output.sh


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[unman]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 07:02:29PM -0600, Sven Semmler wrote:
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> On 12/4/18 6:06 PM, s.w.i.m....@gmail.com wrote:
> > I also do not have a middle mouse key, again, somewhere online
> > said that could be used as well.
>
> Yep, that's how I do it

In the absence of a middle button you can often configure mouse to use
L+R as middle. - press both keys together.
Or use the scroll wheel as button, if you have one.