How to fix broken paste clipboard in VNC on Windows

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SDGator picture SDGator · Nov 19, 2010 · Viewed 131.1k times · Source

When using RealVNC on Windows, I can sometimes cut and paste from VNC into Window's apps, and sometimes it just stops working. How can I get it reset so it works again? I've tried restarting VNC, but that doesn't do it.

Answer

Peter Lee picture Peter Lee · Apr 1, 2011

http://rreddy.blogspot.com/2009/07/vncviewer-clipboard-operations-like.html

Many times you must have observed that clipboard operations like copy/cut and paste suddenly stops workings with the vncviewer. The main reason for this there is a program called as vncconfig responsible for these clipboard transfers. Some times the program may get closed because of some bug in vnc or some other reasons like you closed that window.

To get those clipboard operations back you need to run the program "vncconfig &".

After this your clipboard actions should work fine with out any problems.

Run "vncconfig &" on the client.

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