Hi

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:35:48AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Privetik privetik Ola ;-)
Mnje panemajo _malinki_ ruski :)

And I do not spell it very well.

> > Privjet Yaroslav
> > > Fired up vnc4server locally (without any trickery with fonts) and 
> > > connected to
> > > it locally with the viewer -- the same story :-/
> > Strange, so it do not work with i386 to i386...
> yep - so it seems to be platform independent... and rather
> operator-dependent ;-)

Hmm this is really strange.

> > > switched to that user X -- connected from it -- the same story (please see
> > > screenshot since it might point to something)
> > > http://www.onerussian.com/Linux/bugs/vnc.clipboard/vncclipboard1.png
> > >  >...<
> > > I give up now... any hints what should I do may be? strace? I can gdb
> > > even and wait for some function call?
> > Strace probably do not help, and gdb can probably not handle that. A
> > protocol analyser to see if the clipboard data is actually transfered
> > between the hosts would be the next step I think.
> > Tcpdump or something would be needed for that.
> oki doki - will do... tomorrow... now it is time to sleep. Could you
> point me to what parts of the stream should I look for may be? I have no
> clue in VNC protocol...

Not really unfortunatly. I do not know the VNC protocol itself unfortunatly.
But if you select some text you may be able to see it over the network if you
print the transmitted data in plaintext...

> > But if you recompile the vncserver with debug flags on (not sure if
> > it is that easy) you could use gdb or ddd to see if the clipboard handling
> > code is really activated.
> ok - will do that too... I will just wipe out dh_strip from your
> debian/rules -- that should do the trick ;-)

Maybe it will. I'm not sure if it is there to begin with though. ... I actually
think that dh_strip return an error code on i386 which should mean that
you do not have to do that...

> > I have had problems with wmaker before with a various issues, so it
> > could be a good thing to try without wmaker both on client and server.
> ;-) as you might see on that screenshot I gave - my attempt to run it
> from another user account - there is no wmaker, so it is out of
Ahh of course.

> suspicion ;-) Fortunately or unfortunately, wmaker is the biggest (and
> the only to my knowledge) friend of VNC (any VNC) since it allows you to
> don't bind shortcuts locally for a specific window, so they all
> penetrate and get handled inside the VNC. I could not find similar
> feature in any other window manager (and I did try quite a few) -- do
> you know any with similar feature? Neither I succeeded in writing a
> plugin for compiz which would do similar thing. But since it seems to
> bother noone besides me, I will have to come back to finish it at some
> point... probably after I manage to make compiz work on my laptop ;-)

I did not really understand that feature... :)

> 
> If you come up with a flash on how to debug this case with ease -
> don't hesitate to buzz me please ;-)

If I can come up with that I promise to buzz you. Do not expect miracles
though. :)

Regards,

// Ola

> > Regards,
> 
> > // Ola
> 
> > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> 
> > > > Hi again
> 
> > > > I have now tested on my system and it works just fine on i386. I have
> > > > not tried with KDE and not with wmaker but with gnome on the client
> > > > and no window manager att all on the server side it works just fine.
> 
> > > > Client version 4.1.1+X4.3.0-20 and server is the same as you used.
> 
> > > > It would be interesting to know if you can get it to work in some
> > > > way.
> 
> > > > Server started as follows:
> > > > $ vnc4server
> 
> > > > Client started as follows:
> > > > $ xvnc4viewer :1
> 
> > > > Regards,
> 
> > > > // Ola
> 
> > > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:35:33AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> > > > > Package: vnc4server
> > > > > Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-19
> > > > > Severity: normal
> 
> 
> > > > > I can't manage to have clipboard exchanged between server and
> > > > > client -- although those options are set in "Options..." clipboards do
> > > > > not share regardless of what I do.
> 
> > > > > If that matters: on server (within VNC server I mean) I run wmaker
> > > > > and on the client wmaker within KDE. I am not s ure of what other
> > > > > details I could provide and how to troubleshoot it any further. Could
> > > > > you please advise?
> 
> > > > > On the client I am using xvnc4viewer 4.1.1+X4.3.0-19
> 
> > > > > -- System Information:
> > > > > Debian Release: testing/unstable
> > > > >   APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
> > > > >   APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
> > > > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > > > > Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> > > > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-amd64-generic
> > > > > Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R)
> 
> > > > > Versions of packages vnc4server depends on:
> > > > > ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared 
> > > > > libraries
> > > > > ii  libgcc1                      1:4.1.1-13  GCC support library
> > > > > ii  libstdc++6                   4.1.1-13    The GNU Standard C++ 
> > > > > Library v3
> > > > > ii  libx11-6                     2:1.0.3-2   X11 client-side library
> > > > > ii  libxext6                     1:1.0.1-2   X11 miscellaneous 
> > > > > extension librar
> > > > > ii  libxtst6                     1:1.0.1-5   X11 Testing -- Resource 
> > > > > extension 
> > > > > ii  vnc-common                   3.3.7-13    Virtual network 
> > > > > computing server s
> > > > > ii  x11-common                   1:7.1.0-5   X Window System (X.Org) 
> > > > > infrastruc
> > > > > ii  xbase-clients                1:7.1.ds-3  miscellaneous X clients
> > > > > ii  zlib1g                       1:1.2.3-13  compression library - 
> > > > > runtime
> 
> > > > > Versions of packages vnc4server recommends:
> > > > > ii  xfonts-base                   1:1.0.0-4  standard fonts for X
> 
> > > > > -- no debconf information
> > > -- 
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> 

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