Hey there

I have VNC running on a headless windows box that I access from a vnc client
on another windows box.

If I copy and paste text from the remote system to my local windows box
things work fine and the text comes across and vise versa

But if I fire up on my local box a VNC connection to the x11-vnc server
running on my linux box and then run a terminal to access my bbs (now running on this new linux box) and try to paste any text into the Mystic message
editor running in that terminal I can't get the text to paste.

Any thoughts as to how.

I tried ctrl-shift-v but that didn't work either.

....

in a related question when I look at the text in my linux terminal while running a local mystic login and reading a message ... how do I select and copy/paste any of the text I see in the messages I am reading.

It worked in Windows but not in Linux :(

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I can't actually paste to a terminal over VNC either. I suspect its VNC getting in the middle somehow but I have never really looked into it. You can get the contextual menu up for paste in the terminal window but now cigar.

I can paste on the local machine directly connected though, which is why I suspect VNC. Don't have a solution though.. I usually just end up using a telnet/ssh session direct to the headless box. I'm really only running VNC to support VirtualBox

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Avon wrote (2021-08-20):

But if I fire up on my local box a VNC connection to the x11-vnc server running on my linux box and then run a terminal to access my bbs (now running on this new linux box) and try to paste any text into the Mystic message editor running in that terminal I can't get the text to paste.

Any thoughts as to how.

This might has to do with the VNC client and/or VNC server or some configuration.

I tried ctrl-shift-v but that didn't work either.

I tried from KRDC (Linux) to RealVNC server (Raspbian Linux) and Ctrl-Shift-C and -V works in both directions.

Which terminal do you use? Does copy/paste work in other (GUI) programs? What about right mouse click for context menu?

in a related question when I look at the text in my linux terminal while running a local mystic login and reading a message ... how do I select and copy/paste any of the text I see in the messages I am reading.

It worked in Windows but not in Linux :(

Ctrl-Shift-C should work too in Linux.

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But if I fire up on my local box a VNC connection to the x11-vnc server running on my linux box and then run a terminal to access my bbs (now running on this new linux box) and try to paste any text into the Mystic message editor running in that terminal I can't get the text to paste.

I tried ctrl-shift-v but that didn't work either.
in a related question when I look at the text in my linux terminal while running a local mystic login and reading a message ... how do I select
and copy/paste any of the text I see in the messages I am reading.

In the linux shell, are you running something like syncterm or netrunner? or
is the telnet connection to the BBS through a raw bash shell? if so, is the shell setup for ANSI? also something you might want to make sure is installed is the ncursers library on the linux system. its a library that allows you to use a mouse outside of xorg...

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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On 20 Aug 2021 at 07:32a, Oli pondered and said...

This might has to do with the VNC client and/or VNC server or some configuration.

I've since found if I copy from windows client and connect to x11vnc server on linux box then run a text editor I can paste text just fine.

Also if I open up a terminal on the linux box I can use the center button on
my mouse to paste the text into the terminal

But, if I run a ./mystic -l and then call up the message editor I can't get text to paste into that, whereas with the windows equivalent I could.

I wonder if it's a Mystic thing?

Can anyone paste text from a remote system into a Linux Mystic terminal
running the message editor?

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On 20 Aug 2021 at 07:25a, gcubebuddy pondered and said...

In the linux shell, are you running something like syncterm or
netrunner? or is the telnet connection to the BBS through a raw bash shell? if so, is the shell setup for ANSI? also something you might want to make sure is installed is the ncursers library on the linux system.
its a library that allows you to use a mouse outside of xorg...

I am opening a terminal on the linux box and running a local login using ./mystic -l

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I am opening a terminal on the linux box and running a local login using ./mystic -l

Oh ok, interesting... what desktop are you running on the linux system? i am assuming something such as Gnome on a laptop or desktop ---> going to a RPi with rasberian that runs mystic? Ok so i just launched a bash shell on my slackware 15 laptop and did an ssh to my BBS box. i launched mystic with the same command you used: ./mystic -l (for the local login). i then wrote up a test text in GVIM and then copy and pasted the text from GVIM >> into the
bash shell that had ./mystic -l running. it successfully pasted. i then sent the netmail to you. you might need to log into my BBS to check it out
though... so i at least w have proof that it does work at least on the systme
i am running....
hope this helps :-)

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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On 21 Aug 2021 at 07:16p, gcubebuddy pondered and said...

Oh ok, interesting... what desktop are you running on the linux system?

It's Debian and from what I can tell it's called Xfce and it's ver 4.12

i am assuming something such as Gnome on a laptop or desktop ---> going

Desktop system yeah. but it's a windows 10 one.

to a RPi with rasberian that runs mystic? Ok so i just launched a bash

So I have a Windows 10 desktop running VNC viewer that remotes to the Linux tower/system that I have installed x11vnc as the software to answer the incoming VNC viewer client.

to a RPi with rasberian that runs mystic? Ok so i just launched a bash shell on my slackware 15 laptop and did an ssh to my BBS box. i launched mystic with the same command you used: ./mystic -l (for the local

so to reach my linux/mystic box from my win 10 I am not ssh just using VNC client VNC Viewer by RealVNC

login). i then wrote up a test text in GVIM and then copy and pasted the text from GVIM >> into the bash shell that had ./mystic -l running. it successfully pasted. i then sent the netmail to you. you might need to
log into my BBS to check it out though... so i at least w have proof
that it does work at least on the systme i am running....
hope this helps :-)

Thanks, but I'm not sure were comparing the same thing?

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so to reach my linux/mystic box from my win 10 I am not ssh just using
VNC client VNC Viewer by RealVNC
Thanks, but I'm not sure were comparing the same thing?

Wow ok, ya i dont have a windows 10 box to test with. sorry...

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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On 23 Aug 2021 at 09:23a, gcubebuddy pondered and said...

so to reach my linux/mystic box from my win 10 I am not ssh just usin VNC client VNC Viewer by RealVNC
Thanks, but I'm not sure were comparing the same thing?

Wow ok, ya i dont have a windows 10 box to test with. sorry...

It's all good thanks for having a look for me anyways :)

Yeah it's got me stumped. But I'm not that familiar with all things Linux so learning as a I go. A good thing.

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It's all good thanks for having a look for me anyways :)
Yeah it's got me stumped. But I'm not that familiar with all things
Linux so learning as a I go. A good thing.

Ya sure thing!

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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