Here is the video. Audio level is low so you'll have to turn up the volume to hear me.
https://youtu.be/TMRe1bjJOzs On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Brett Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:45 AM, DRC <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> I don't think the formatting of text in word processors, etc., is ever >> going to transfer via RFB. However, the text itself should still >> transfer. >> > > This is the behavior I want. Very rarely would I ever want formatting > transferred (and that would never involve VNC). > > > >> Our version of vncconfig should work identically to the one in TigerVNC. >> The only real difference is that ours doesn't have a GUI. But there >> could be a bug in our implementation as well. If you can nail down >> specific applications that are causing problems moreso than others, or >> if you can ascertain whether this issue is specific to one particular >> flavor of vncconfig, that would be helpful in diagnosing. > > > Using tvncconfig (shipped with the TurboVNC server) with the -debug > option, I was able to identify one issue affecting copy/paste. It is > specific to the TurboVNC server/TurboVNC viewer, as it does not occur with > either viewer when the server is TigerVNC and/or the viewer is TigerVNC. > It is also *sigh* specific to gnome-terminal, since xterm and mrxvt don't > have the same issue. Since OSX does not have a focus-follows-mouse model > option, I am unfortunately in the habit of clicking after switching apps to > ensure that my 'focus' is not the Finder (that is a total other rant I > won't indulge). If this click is in a full-screen TurboVNC viewer app, and > upon a gnome-terminal with an empty line (or any blank area without text), > it selects the whitespace, blanking out the clipboard. > > Here are detailed instructions to recreate (on OSX). Note that not all of > these conditions may be necessary. > > 1. Start TurboVNC server > 2. Kill tvncconfig (we only want one copy and I want debug mode) > 3. Connect to vncserver using TurboVNC viewer, full screen > 4. Start tvncconfig -debug in a terminal so we can observe the clipboard > changes > 5. Start a gnome terminal > 6. Copy some text out of an app in OSX (I used Google Chrome) > 7. Switch to full screen TurboVNC application > 8. Observe that the tvncconfig has seen the event and updated the > clipboard > 9. Click in an area of the gnome-terminal that is blank (below your > prompt for example) > 10. Note that there is a highlight on the blank line you single-clicked > 11. Note that the clipboard has been changed, and that you cannot paste > the text you copied from OSX > > I'm not particularly attached to gnome-terminal, I switched to it because > it was the only terminal that always worked with cut-and-paste using a > different remote solution. I'm happy to go back to mrxvt (which seems to > behave better with the clipboard using TurboVNC). > > [...] > > > Third -- is there a way to stop the viewer from grabbing the Alt >> > modifier? I use Alt+left mouse click to move windows in the VNC >> > session, and Alt+right mouse click to resize. Sometimes (not every >> > time), instead this causes the viewer to start resizing, which is >> > strange because I'm in full screen mode. >> >> I don't understand. Can you provide a more specific reproduction >> procedure? Our viewer doesn't grab any keys on Mac at all. Keyboard >> grabbing is only implemented currently in the Java viewer running under >> X11 (which requires the use of the TurboVNC Helper native library, so >> for most purposes, the feature is only available when launching the >> viewer as a standalone application using the vncviewer script, not when >> using it through JWS or as an applet.) Keyboard grabbing is also >> implemented in the Windows native viewer (but not in the Java viewer on >> Windows-- yet.) >> >> I just tested, and Alt-drag works fine for me with the Mac viewer. >> > > This one is harder to give instructions, as it happens every time (and > isn't apparently happening to you). I even get problems if I hold Alt down > before even clicking the mouse. > > I've made a screen recording demonstrating both issues -- the > cut-and-paste gnome-terminal specific issue, and the alt key issue. > > Unfortunately even though it is pretty short, the video is 70meg. Any > suggestions/preferences on how to deliver it to you? > >
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