JCA, Are you sure that you are running a copy of the "vncconfig" program in your VNC server desktop? This is required in order for clipboard text to be transferred.
Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JCA > Sent: 16 August 2005 02:06 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Cutting and pasting (again) > > I am running VNC 4.0 between two Linux hosts, A and B. On A I run > the VNC client vncviewer, and on B the VNC server vncserver. When I > launch a VNC connection from A to B, on B a copy of my Gnome desktop > is launched. > > I open a gnome-terminal on A, and another on B. With the mouse, I > select some text in the window in A, and try to paste it into the > window in B. No go. I try it in the opposite direction. No go. The > cut-and-paste buffers in A and B seem to be unable to share data. Is > there a simple way around this? > > Let me emphasize the word "simple", because I have read about > solutions which aren't. That is, I could do the cut-and-paste on (say) > A, saving the pasted text to a file, which I then scp to B - thus > achieving my goal. The solutions I have seen seem to be no less > cumbersome than that :-( > _______________________________________________ > 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
