local printing

[Carson Wilcox]

Thanks, I love it when I miss the obvious.

Carson

Carson R. Wilcox
Senior Systems Architect
Fujitsu Consulting
Tampa, FL



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: throopw@sheol.org (Wayne Throop)
Reply-To: vnc-list@realvnc.com
Date:  Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:04:16 -0800 (PST)

>: Let me begin by saying that I've only been using VNC a short 
time, but
>: love it.  I started using it in place of exceed a few weeks ago 
to
>: connect to various Solaris boxes.  The one thing I really do 
miss,
>: unless I've just missed it so far, is the ability to highlight 
some
>: text in an xterm,editor,etc and print it to a local printer.  
Is there
>: some way to do this using VNC?? 
>
>Assuming your local machine is windows and your remote machine
>is solaris, you simply mark the text in solaris (via the usual
>X method of dragging), then on your local box, pop up a notepad,
>paste the text, and print it.
>
>If your local machine is unix-like (ie, 
linux/bsd/solaris/gnu/whatnot),
>you can arrange for a single buttonclick to do the printing 
part...
>something like mapping a button to
>
>      xselection -cutbuffer 0 | lpr &
>
>I'm assuming some similar convenience could be configured in 
windows.
>
>In short, the only data transfer that exists in most VNC 
distributions
>is the transfer of the X cutbuffer and/or windows cut/paste data.
>But luckily, that works out well for what you wanted to 
accomplish.
>
>
>Wayne Throop   throopw@sheol.org
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