On 10/20/15 4:41 PM, Brett Williams wrote: > 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).
My apologies. All of your messages were getting spam-filtered for some reason. I will look into this. > 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? Will contact you off-list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ TurboVNC-Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/turbovnc-users
