GUACAMOLE-2226: Newlines stripped on multiline paste via browser menu.#638
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When using the browser menu (e.g. File and Edit/Paste in Chrome) pasting multiline text to a Guacamole SSH, RDP... session, the newline (LF or CR/LF) is dropped. e.g.
becomes:
line1line2line3Noticed this in guacd log:
guacd[56695]: DEBUG: Ignoring unknown keysym: 0xFF0AIt appears the menu paste option for text, in Chrome at least, uses simulated keyboard input: it sends each character as individual key events instead of using the clipboard mechanism. And the LF keysym wasn't handled.