Wesleyz, gvim's clipboard handling is fairly broken, as far as I know. You'll need to run vncconfig with the -poll option (see vncconfig --help for details) in order to have it work around the problem.
Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wesleyz > Sent: 22 July 2005 03:50 > To: [email protected] > Subject: VNC doesn't monitor GVIM's clipboard > > Dear VNC developers, > > It is also a cut&paste problem. > the VNC server is running on a Solaris 8 box, and the client > is running on Windows 2000. > > The scenario is: > 1) start gvim and open a txt file > 2) copy some text to Cut_buffer0 (by clicking the button on toolbar) > 3) paste in VNC Client. The content is copied to the Windows > application. > 4) copy another text to Cut_buffer0 in gvim > 5) paste again in VNC client. But the content is what you > copy at step 2)! > 6) start a dtpad in VNC server, and press CTRL-INSERT. You > can find that the content of Cut_buffer0 is in fact what you > copy at step 4)! However, this content isn't transferred to > VNC client. > > However, the reverse direction of copy&paste (Win -> Solaris) is good. > > VIM doesn't have this problem. The CTRL-INSERT/SHIFT-INSERT > pairs work fine for it. > > I know that 'vncconfig -poll 1000' can work around gvim's > problem (thank Tristan :-). But I am afraid that it isn't a > perfect solution, because sometimes I do need to have > different Cut_buffer0 and Primary_selection. > > Since dtpad can get the new content of Cut_buffer0, I guess > VNC can do better in monitoring the buffer's change. > > And, because vim/gvim is an open-source program, it might be > easier for VNC developers to find out whether there is a more > suitable solution for clipboard. > > Is it possible to improve the clipboard solution of VNC? > > Thanks & regards, > Wesleyz > > =================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
