middle mouse; clipboard; all-in-one-window

[Rui Carmo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vnc-list "at" orl.co.uk [mailto:owner-vnc-list "at" orl.co.uk]On
> Behalf Of John E. Hein
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 02:21
> To: vnc-list "at" orl.co.uk
> Subject: middle mouse; clipboard; all-in-one-window
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>=20
> I just obtained vnc.  I run vncviewer on an NT box.  I run
>  vncserver on a Linux box.  I have 3 issues:
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> 1) I have a 2 button mouse on the NT box.  Is
>     there a way to get the middle mouse button event
>     to go to the server?  I found the 'Configuration Option'
>     that swaps buttons 2 & 3.  That helps, but I would
>     like to be able to not have to do that every time
>     I need the 'other' button.
>    X-Win32 (an X server I have used until now) had a mode
>     that allowed you to 'chord' the right and left buttons
>     to generate a middle mouse button event.
>    Is there / will there be a way to do this under vnc?
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You need to do that on the Linux end. Run Xconfig (or your local flavour =
of it) and choose "emulate 3-button". I forget the actual entry to set =
on your config files.

> 2) How can I cut/copy/paste between the Windows windows
>     (such as wordpad) and the windows displayed by
>     vncviewer (such as xterm)?

No problem here... Ctrl+Ins, Shift+Ins...=20

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> 3) It seems cumbersome to me to force all my X windows to be
>     in a single window.  Again, I bring up X-Win32... they
>     allow your x windows to be either all in a single window
>     (like vncviewer) OR allow the Windows 'window manager'
>     (for lack of a better term) to manage each X window
>     individually.
>    I prefer the latter so I can mix Windows apps and
>     X apps side by side.
>    Are there plans to do remove the all-windows-in-one-window
>     restriction?  Or is there a way to do that now?
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Nope, VNC gives you a _full_ X display. There is no getting around that.

> So far I like vnc except for a few usability complaints,
>  although I don't know if it's any
>  faster than an X server running on a PC displaying clients
>  on a LAN (I have yet to try it over the internet).

Believe me, it is more than fast enough to qualify. I've stripped the X =
servers out of my Windows boxes and run only VNC. Besides the savings on =
disk space (5/15MB extra on each machine), I can now run X apps properly =
on a 16-bit display (one of the gripes I had).

>  I'll have
>  to play with the different encoding schemes to see if I can
>  speed it up.
> Oh, and it seems to handle some fonts a little differently than
>  my previous X server, but I'm still experimenting there.
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It's just a matter of tweaking. Remember, all the fonts are on the Linux =
side (you are essentially looking at a large bitmap on the VNC end), so =
it's no longer your PC choosing the fonts.

Best regards,

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