Alex, If you ever run a Windows program which "hooks" the clipboard and which either crashes or simply fails to unhook itself before quitting then the clipboard hooking chain can be broken and any applications that hooked the clipboard before the failing one will never be notified again of changes to it.
Since VNC Viewer for Windows uses this hooking to monitor the clipboard, this can prevent clipboard updates from working via VNC. Unfortunately, some older VNC Viewer for Windows releases had buggy clipboard unhooking themselves, leading to these sorts of problem. Of course, it's quite possible that some other part of the process is failing, but the Windows clipboard is notoriously fragile. Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Nicolaou > Sent: 06 September 2006 15:17 > To: [email protected] > Subject: cut'n'paste confusion > > I have a moderately complicated setup which I will attempt to explain. > > There are two computers and three screens on my desk. The > leftmost is a > laptop, and the rightmost is also connected to the laptop. > The laptop is > running XP and some free version of VNC 4 (4.1.1 built on Mar > 11/2005) both > client and server. The right screen, controlled by the > windows laptop, is > connected to a remote linux box in full screen mode. The > center screen is > connected to a linux box running x2vnc 1.6 twice, so that > mousing to the > left or right goes onto the windows box. > > Under normal circumstances, it all works fine. In particular, > cutting and > pasting from any desktop to any desktop works. > > However, sometimes, the cut'n'paste from windows to the > remote linux box > seems to stop working. Running xcutsel on linux and copying around the > buffers doesn't seem to have any effect. I can still copy > from that remote > linux box up into the windows box or the local linux box; I > just can't paste > into it (except what it already has from copying something out). > > This problematic remote linux box is the one I have least > control of. It is > running: > > 06/09/06 06:54:47 Xvnc version 3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2 > > Can someone give me steps to gather more information so that > I can figure > out under what cases copy and paste to the remote box breaks > and how I could > work around it? > > thanks > alex > _______________________________________________ > 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
