Cannot copy!!

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Jul 15 17:43:08 UTC 2007


Christofer C. Bell wrote:

> On 7/14/07, Pete Holsberg <pjh42 at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Christofer C. Bell keyed the following on 7/14/2007 6:22 PM:
>> >  On 7/14/07, Pete Holsberg <pjh42 at pobox.com> wrote:
>> > > So you're saying that VNC is at fault???
>> >
>> >  VNC is not at fault any more than a hammer is at fault for not being
>> >  able to work with screws.  VNC is a display program, not a file
>> >  transfer program.  You're trying to use the wrong tool for the job.
>>
>> There are programs that do not interfere with Window's ability to copy
>> and paste.
> 
> Ok, I misread what the other guy said, talking about ssh and whatnot.
> If you'd like a full featured remote display application for Ubuntu
> that allows copying and pasting from Ubuntu to Windows, then I'd
> suggest enabling the Seveas repository and installing freenx.

Is that still maintained?  It was so badly out of date last time I checked
that I gave up and went with the NX from NoMachine.  The freenx server
wouldn't work with recent Windows NX clients.
-- 
derek





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