Bug 213190
| Summary: | non-working vnc and winxp clipboard synchronization | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | das_deniz |
| Component: | vnc | Assignee: | Adam Tkac <atkac> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | ovasik, triage |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://dasdeniz.blogspot.com/2006/09/on-windows-x-clipboard-selection-vnc.html | ||
| Whiteboard: | bzcl34nup | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-11-26 17:47:19 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
das_deniz
2006-10-31 03:42:04 UTC
Really interesting. Problem is that windows vnc client synchronize vncserver's cutbuffer, not clipboard. I can write patch which synchronizing server's cutbuffer & clipboard buffer but this patch will be only temporary because using cutbuffer is VERY obsolete. In future windows vnc client must be rewrited to using standard X copy/paste scheme. Adam, thanks for looking into this - please do take your time with this one and follow these links to have a look at this *well discussed* issue around X old/new vs Windows and clipboard handling: http://xserver.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fClipboardsWiki http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html also note that i missed this - part of the vnc-server package: http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/man/vncconfig.html and this is in the default created ~/.vnc/xstartup as 'vncconfig -iconic &' with FC6. The problem persists with 'remote access' to the desktop display :0.0 (LibVNCServer) So, i suggest some more reading and working with the vnc providers to come up with a solution that works for most everyone.... www.realvnc.com www.tightvnc.com ultravnc.sf.net Thank you very much for looking into this. Could you please specify how can you copy some text from windows vnc client to linux server? I can't find how can I reproduce this bug. (where is edit->copy in windows vnc client?) ??? I only use Edit->Copy as a last resort for any application on any platform. Selecting the text and Ctrl-C copies the selection to the clipboard in windows likewise Ctrl-Shift-C copies to the clipboard for gnome-terminal. Pasting is done with Ctrl-V in windows (if i've somthing in the clipboard) likewise Ctrl-Shift-V pastes in gnome-terminal. Emacs uses different selection/buffer key sequences... I do not use application menus or the vnc 'copy local to remote' or 'copy remote to local' selections... and the point is no one should need to. Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks. If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6, please note that Fedora no longer maintains these releases. We strongly encourage you to upgrade to a current Fedora release. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained and closing them. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle/EOL If this bug is still open against Fedora Core 1 through 6, thirty days from now, it will be closed 'WONTFIX'. If you can reporduce this bug in the latest Fedora version, please change to the respective version. If you are unable to do this, please add a comment to this bug requesting the change. Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we are following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again. And if you'd like to join the bug triage team to help make things better, check out http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers moving to rawhide & assigned Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Clipboard synchronization works when vncconfig utility is running in session. From vncconfig manual page: "... Its main purpose when run in this mode is to support clipboard transfer to and from the VNC viewer(s). Note that without a running instance of vncconfig there will be no clipboard support ..." If running vncconfig doesn't help please reopen this bug. |