Tuesday, October 2, 2012

VNC viewer: copy and paste text

If you are unable to copy text from and to a VNC client to your windows operating system, make sure the vncconfig application is running on the remote server.

Run "vncconfig &" from the vncviewer, and check all checkboxes.

From Unix to Windows from a VNC session:
1) Highlight the text you want to copy by holding down the left mouse button and dragging, just like in Windows. This copies it to the Windows clipboard.
2) Go to your Windows window and paste it from the clipboard as usual.

By the way, to paste it into the Unix window, put your cursor where you want it to go, then click the middle mouse button.

Reference:
http://www.unix.com/windows-dos-issues-discussions/40732-vnc-copy-paste-problem.html

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