On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, greg wm wrote:

> i quite often find myself using thunderbird on the local machine but 
> firefox on some other machine via vnc, with twm as my window manager. 
> twm because of the tiny footprint, versatile icon placement, and 
> recovery of screen RE.  firefox via vnc because of mozilla bloat and old 
> machines, and so i can continue the same session regardless that i am 
> constantly travelling from one screen to another.
>
> the accordant annoyance with this arrangement is that neither a 
> thunderbird copy operation, nor an X selection on a thunderbird window, 
> are available within VNC for pasting.  vice versa works fine.  so to 
> make the hop from thunderbird to vnc i paste in an xterm, re-select 
> there, then paste in vnc.
>
> i would prefer something a bit less cumbersome, though not at the 
> expense of either kde or gnome bloat.  any suggestion?


Are you using autocutsel?  Google for it.  It solves a lot of these 
problems for VNC.

Mike