Various issues about copy/paste between Xvnc and Win2K vncviewer

[James Weatherall]

Lionel,

You should use Xvnc 4b4 and remember to run vncconfig in the Xvnc
session in order for the clipboard to work.

Cheers,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:49, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just wondering if anyone had the same issues than me :
> 
>  - with Xvnc 3.3.x and either vncviewer 3.3.x or 4.0b4, copy paste works
>    fine except for copy / paste from GTK 1.x / 2.x apps. Basically, if I
>    select something in an xterm, I can 'Ctrl-V' it in Windows. If I do the
>    same in the text widget of a Gtk application, I can properly paste it in,
>    for example, emacs or an xterm, but it won't change the Windows clipboard
>    (ie I need to copy from Gtk, paste to emacs, re-copy and the paste in
>    Windows).
> 
>    This may have something to do that in X, AFAIK, there are two selection
>    buffers (primary and clipboard) and maybe Gtk only update one of them and
>    VNC uses the other. Did not investigate more yet by looking at the Gtk
>    code.
>    
>  - by testing Xvnc 4.0b4 + XFree 4.3.0, copy paste between Xvnc and
>    vncviewer (whatever the version) does not work at all, be it for standard
>    of Gtk apps (but there, keyboard works perfectly, even my French AZERTY
>    one :-) ).
> 
> So I am wondering what I could do to help debugging this (or how the
> clipboard handling is done in the VNC code for me to debug this a bit :-) ).
> 
> Thanks,
>            Lionel