Thanks, I love it when I miss the obvious. Carson
Carson R. Wilcox Senior Systems Architect Fujitsu Consulting Tampa, FL ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wayne Throop) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:04:16 -0800 (PST) >: Let me begin by saying that I've only been using VNC a short time, but >: love it. I started using it in place of exceed a few weeks ago to >: connect to various Solaris boxes. The one thing I really do miss, >: unless I've just missed it so far, is the ability to highlight some >: text in an xterm,editor,etc and print it to a local printer. Is there >: some way to do this using VNC?? > >Assuming your local machine is windows and your remote machine >is solaris, you simply mark the text in solaris (via the usual >X method of dragging), then on your local box, pop up a notepad, >paste the text, and print it. > >If your local machine is unix-like (ie, linux/bsd/solaris/gnu/whatnot), >you can arrange for a single buttonclick to do the printing part... >something like mapping a button to > > xselection -cutbuffer 0 | lpr & > >I'm assuming some similar convenience could be configured in windows. > >In short, the only data transfer that exists in most VNC distributions >is the transfer of the X cutbuffer and/or windows cut/paste data. >But luckily, that works out well for what you wanted to accomplish. > > >Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] >_______________________________________________ >VNC-List mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
