[Thinlinc-technical] Clipboard (copy/paste) issues

[Jerome, Ronald]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Ossman [mailto:ossman at cendio.se]
> Sent: February 2, 2017 3:40 AM
> To: Jerome, Ronald; 'thinlinc-technical at lists.cendio.se'
> Subject: Re: [Thinlinc-technical] Clipboard (copy/paste) issues
> 
> On 01/02/17 19:28, Jerome, Ronald wrote:
> > Hi I've noticed an issue with the Windows version of the ThinLinc
> > client.  The client seems to highjack the clipboard such that when
> > the client is running, no other Windows applications can do any
> > copy/paste actions.  I've witnessed this with client versions 4.6 and
> > 4.7 (tested on multiple Windows 7 machines).
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this and are there any known solutions?
> >
> 
> We've had some reports about this both for ThinLinc and upstream
> TigerVNC. The issue has often been some application in the session that
> is stealing the clipboard, and as a result so does the ThinLinc client
> locally.
> 
> Try seeing if it happens with an extremely basic session, e.g. just an
> xterm and no desktop environment.

It seems that this only happens with KDE desktops, GNOME does not exhibit the same behaviour.

Unfortunately, I haven't isolated what in the KDE desktop is causing this yet, but it makes working with in Windows (with an active ThinLinc session) very annoying.

Ron Jerome

Team Leader, Infrastructure/Operations
Shared Services Canada / Government of Canada