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Gobby for Clipboard transfer

Posted by Jeff August 03, 2006

Gobby is a cross-platform collaborative text editor: like SubEthaEdit, but platform agnostic (and encrypted too). I’ve found it to be pretty stable and useful.
I’m often in the situation where I’m remote-controlling a Windows-based machine and want to take notes/blog about what I’m doing - I need that remote error message into my local text editor.

Only Radmin does clipboard transfer.  VNC, NetMeeting, Windows Remote Desktop don’t even try.

So here’s the trick - setup a Gobby session between machines. Paste from one machine, Copy from another. It’s a hack, but it works.

 Update- Marcus points out that UltraVNC does clipboard transfer.

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  1. marcus Aug 04 2006 / 11am

    In my business i use UltraVNC and it does clipboard-transfer. Just mark the text you want, press ctrl-c, open your favourite editor and press ctrl-v.
    marcus

  2. Jeff Aug 04 2006 / 11am

    Thanks Marcus - I’ll check it out– looks like some nice features.

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