From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Fedora/1.7.6-1.3.2 Description of problem: When I make a selection of text from some local programs (for example, from gvim or mozilla), the selection should be sent to the remote host, since I have enabled these vnc options: (by pressing F8 in the vnc window, and then selecting "Options") * Send clipboard to server. * Send primary selection & cut buffer as clipboard. But text is not sent. With other local programs (for example, from gnome-terminal) the thing works. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vnc-4.0-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a local gvim (or mozilla) window. Open a vnc window to a remote host. 2. Select some text in the gvim window. 3. Try to paste (ctrl+v or Edit>Paste) into a remote text field (for example, into Notepad in Windows). Actual Results: The text hasn't been copied. Expected Results: The text should have been copied. Additional info: The text is copied if it is selected from some other programs, like gnome-terminal. Using packets updated with yum: vim-X11-6.3.054-0.fc3.1 mozilla-1.7.6-1.3.2 vnc-4.0-8
I have seen this problem occasionally but had been unable to pin it down to a particular set of applications. The problem I see here is that the copy buffer *is* set on the viewer end once, but not subsequently.
Thanks Tim. I know nothing on how vnc or X11 work, but I can imagine that a good way to auto-copy from local selections would be (supposing that events are available): * vnc registers itself as a listener for the x11_clipboard_has_changed (or similar) event. * when the event is received, vnc copies the local clipboard to the remote clipboard. If events are not available, a solution could be to copy the local clipboard to the remote clipboard when the vnc window is selected (or activated, or enabled - don't know the exact word). I've seen that I can select and paste (with the mouse middle button) from gvim to gnome-terminal and from gnome-terminal to gvim, so probably the problem is not in the programs nor in the local clipboard. Seems to be something in the way vnc manages the thing.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
Please try to reproduce this bug with latest vnc in FC5
closing, fc3 isn't supported now