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