[Rd] Minor Windows clipboard issue

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Thu Apr 27 23:02:03 CEST 2006


On 4/27/2006 4:10 PM, gordon smith wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a small problem in Windows RGui using Remote Desktop when the 
> clipboard paste menu item becomes unexpectedly disabled.
> 
> I'm using Remote Desktop to connect from a Windows 2000 workstation 
> client to RGui running on Windows Server 2003. After text is pasted to 
> RGui from the client a couple of times, the "Edit : Paste" menu item 
> becomes disabled when data should be available from the clipboard. 
> Pasting of clipboard contents is disabled at that time for a local 
> Notepad also. The paste menu item is re-enabled when the following happens:

If it happens for both R and Notepad, it's presumably a Windows bug, 
isn't it?

> 
>    1. Cut/copy from a local application (remote paste remains disabled 
> when attempted again).
>    2. Disconnect and reconnect the remote desktop connection (remote 
> paste becomes enabled).
> 
> A simple workaround is to paste into Notepad on the remote host, then 
> cut/copy from the local Notepad into RGui.

I don't follow this:  didn't you say above that pasting is disabled for 
Notepad, too?

> I haven't located any useful material, but VNC and/or eclipse may also 
> have (had) this problem.
> _https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=70077_
> 
> I can't locate the VNC item.
> 
>  > version
> 
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386          
> os       mingw32       
> system   i386, mingw32 
> status                 
> major    2             
> minor    2.1           
> year     2005          
> month    12            
> day      20            
> svn rev  36812         
> language R

That's not the current release....

Duncan Murdoch
> 
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