On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 1:20 PM headcase <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks, my clipboard on VNC connections does not seem to populate the > remote clipboard for the machine I am connecting to. I have tried it out in > a few different browsers, the sidebar seems to correctly populate with the > copied material, but the remote clipboard is not populated.
Most VNC servers require a helper application running within the remote desktop (vncconfig) to read and update the clipboard. Usually, this application is started as part of the user's xinitrc. My guess is that this application is not running on your VNC server(s). I installed Guacamole using the script here ( > https://github.com/MysticRyuujin/guac-install), so perhaps some library > or component is missing but I am not sure. No, there is no additional library or component required for VNC clipboard support within Guacamole. It's part of the VNC support. I am also proxying Guacamole behind Nginx which may be an issue but I am > not sure. Clipboard copy and paste seems to work fine for SSH connections. No, hosting Guacamole behind Nginx has no bearing on clipboard function. Even if it did, once you get past guacd, everything is the same regardless of underlying protocol. If clipboard is functioning for one protocol, then that eliminates any problem within the webapp, within a proxy, or within the browser. The problem must be either within the VNC implementation (unlikely) or within the configuration of the VNC server (more likely). - Mike
