CITRIX and disabled "Copy/Paste" [closed]

Question

I must use several Citrix desktops, where "COPY/PASTE" from the local machine to the server is disabled. Are there workarounds or tricks to bypass this limitation?

Answer 1

I've encountered the same problem and have a partial somewhat contrived solution. It allows me to get a little more than 1kb of text from sandboxed Internet Explorer instance.

I use http://goqr.me/ to create a QR-code from the text. Create it in greatest possible resolution and open it. Take a screenshot of the window on the clipboard by pressing Alt-PrtScr. Then I use a small utility (see https://github.com/thoraage/qrscanner) to extract text from the picture on the clipboard.

It is a sick world!

Answer 2

Best solution for this, I used just open one note app in local machine.

1. Open citrix and Restore (resize the window []).
2. Snip the entire text as image and paste it in one note.
3. Right click on the image and copy the text.
4. Paste it in TXT doc you got that.

Answer 3

The earlier suggestions and "work-arounds" were useful, but in 2020, there is a better way :)

Microsoft developed a "Relay Service" called Azure Relay. This same service is what's used behind the scenes to power what Microsoft refers to as "Live Code Sharing".

This service runs as an extension with several products, but for developers, this would likely be their IDE and code editor: Visual Studio and VS Code.

The extension is Live Share and it works flawlessly (at least on my machine 😉)

Like other suggestions, this isn't going to let you copy/paste from one machine to another, but in a way, it allows for much more. Instead, this alternative will let you host a project/workspace/notes...etc on your local machine, start a live-share session, then join that live share session from the remote.

Whether you work from the local or the remote, the changes persist and are shared on each machine.

Thanks the other commenters for their suggestions. I may not have thought of this as an option without the prior suggestions to spark this idea.