[winswitch] how to do copy and paste from / to windows-linux and viceversa from / to two different computers.

[Antoine Martin]

On 22/07/2020 01:34, Mario Marietto via shifter-users wrote:
> Hello to everyone.
> 
> I'm looking for a way to do copy and paste text and files from a windows to
> linux and viceversa. Actually I'm using two computers. On the first I have
> installed ubuntu and on the other one I have installed another ubuntu or
> windows. Actually I'm using synergy to share the mouse between windows and
> linux and from linux to linux. But it is a partial solution. Infact synergy
> does not allow to copy and paste files from two oses installed in two
> different computers. So,I've found xpra and it seems that it can do that.
> But,watching some tutorials on youtube,I didn't find a good tutorial that
> teaches how. There are some tutorials that teaches how to forward an
> application,but I don't want to do that,I find that not comfortable. I'm
> looking for a good tutorial that teaches how to do copy and paste files and
> folders from windows to linux and linux to linux between two different
> computers. thanksYou can start a session with a placeholder application, like an 'xterm',
and drag and drop files to that window to initiate a file transfer.
(or you can also use the system tray to do that)
Going in the other direction, you will have to use the system tray menu,
or the "xpra send-file" subcommand.

Cheers,
Antoine