Cut/paste and mouse scrolling

[Corné Beerse]

Michael Rayle wrote:

> All,
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> I have a serious beef right now with VNC.  
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> I am using VNC to connect a Win-XP client to a Linux server (FVWM on X).
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> If I want to use the scroll-wheel, I have to run "Tight VNC" viewer.  

I have it working with the previous and current RealVNC versions (3 and 4). I 
have to say I use the vnc-server that comes with RedHat 9.

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> If I want to use the mouse buffer to cut/paste between Windows and Linux, I
> have to run "RealVNC" viewer.
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Not necessarily. You can also open `xclipboard` in the session and use the 
select buffer to move between desktop and vnc-server:

 From desktop to vnc:
- Open `xclipboard` in the vnc session and have a clean buffer available
- copy text at the desktop (pictures are not transfered)
- paste with your middle mouse button in xclipboard window
- copy and paste from xclipboard to your application using the mouse buttons 
(select with right button and paste with the middle button)

from vnc to desktop:
- open `xclipboard`
- copy from app to select buffer in xclipboard
- select the text in xclipboard (with right mouse button) and keep it selected!
- use past on the desktop.

Details: older applications that do NOT have a cut-copy-paste menu, like xterm, 
do work without xclipboard. This is because vnc only transfers the select 
buffer, not the cut-copy-paste buffer.

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> Does anyone know how to make cut/paste work in Tight VNC?
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> Or how to make scroll events work in RealVNC?

Scrolling is not perfect with older applications: they donnot know what to do 
with it.


CBee