Ronald, This is a bug in Mozilla (and so also in Galeon, etc). Mozilla fails to re-claim the clipboard and/or selection whenever it changes, so other applications have no way of knowing that it's changed unless they repeatedly poll the clipboard.
vncconfig provides the "-poll" option to work around X applications that are broken in this way, allowing you to specify a frequency at which the clipboard & selection should be polled for changes. Feel free to report this bug to the Mozilla folks. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Com MN PG P > E B Consultant 3 > Sent: 24 November 2005 13:23 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Copy & Paste Linux Mozilla<-->Windows weirdness > > In case someone uses VNC to access Linux from Windows, and > has installed > Mozilla on > the Linux machine (preferably version 1.4.2, but maybe the same effect > occurs with > other Mozilla versions too), could you please verify the following odd > behaviour? > > In Mozilla, mark some text, select "Copy" from the context > menu. Then go > to Windows > and paste it to some application, such as Notepad. This should work as > expected. > > Then go back to Mozilla, mark some other text, select "Copy". When I > paste this > new text into Windows, I get the first, old text, pasted (i.e. VNC did > not update > the Windows clipboard). > > Note that I can paste the text from Mozilla to, say, a xterm > within the > VNC session. > This means that the text was indeed copied into the X > Clipboard, but VNC > failed to > sync it with the Windows clipboard. > > To reproduce the behaviour, it is important to copy to the clipboard > both times from > Mozilla. In contrast, the following would NOT show the erroneous > behaviour: > > 1. Copy some text A from Mozilla, paste into Windows Notepad > 2. Copy some other text B from xterm (or Konqueror, or Nedit,...), and > paste into Windows Notepad. > 3. Copy aome more text from Mozilla, and paste into Notepad > > In this case, Notepad would receive all three texts (ABC) as it should > be. But if you leave > out step 2, Notepad would not contain the texts AB, but instead AA. > > Ronald > -- > Ronald Fischer (phone +49-89-63676431) > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > 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
