Type clipboard text into guest without Parallels Tools

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac Feature Suggestions' started by NoahO, Dec 6, 2017.

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  1. NoahO

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    Hi,
    Often I find myself working with VMs that don't yet have integration tools installed, and I would like to copy and paste a snippet of text, eg, to install integration tools, enable SSH, etc.

    It would be really nice if as part of the keyboard menu, instead of sending single keypresses, I could copy and paste a whole bunch of text to be typed into the VM. I think this would be really easy to implement, as the functionality for typing single keys is already there, and I know you can type whole sequences because that is how Packer works with parallels integration. (https://www.packer.io/)

    For example, my favorite remote desktop app, Royal TSX has this feature.

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  2. AaronS3

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    Yes please - should be under edit menu and read "Type Clipboard Contents as Keystrokes", please.
     
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  3. MarioB4

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    Desperately need this feature as well!
     
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  4. JosephK7

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    Yes!!! we need this. It solves the Windows login password issue too. I prefer to use much stronger passwords and paste them from a password manager, but windows won't take paste on the login screen for security reasons.
     
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  5. alexreg

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    This would be great, and has been outstanding for some time. Any updates, Parallels folks??
     
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  6. IvanExpert

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    There's a feature in the VNC client I use, called JollysFastVNC, which I find absolutely invaluable, which is the ability to paste the clipboard of the host OS into the remote OS as keystrokes, rather than via transferring the host clipboard to the remote clipboard.

    This would be equally invaluable in Parallels when it's not feasible to use Parallels Tools in the guest OS for integration, e.g. when in the console of a non-GUI Linux, or in a situation where there is a need to keep the guest OS as "clean" as possible for diagnostic purposes.

    Thanks for your consideration.
     
  7. CrosbyL

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    UPVOTE! This is a must for Login Screens with super-long pasphrases as well!!
     
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  8. TylerH2

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    Yes! Please add this feature!
     
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  9. BallO

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    +1 for me also considering Parallels Tools is closed source and full of bugs and will never work on some distros like gentoo
     
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