Posting back to the list so we have a record of the resolution.  It 
turns out that the Alt-drag issue was due to another program 
BetterTouchTool installed on the Mac that was implementing an Alt-drag 
window resize feature on the client end.  All other reported issues are 
resolved, except the scrollbar thing, which I posted as an issue on 
GitHub.  The latest 2.0.x stable pre-release 
(http://www.turbovnc.org/DeveloperInfo/PreReleases) contains all of the 
clipboard-related fixes.


On 10/21/15 11:43 AM, Brett Williams wrote:
> 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]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:45 AM, DRC
>     <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[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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