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I am connected to a remote system via Screen Sharing. I have text (plaintext) on my clipboard locally. I am unable to paste into the remote system. How can I make this work? Here are some details:

  • When I open the Edit menu, only "Copy" is available, "Paste", "Send Clipboard" and "Get Clipboard" and so on are grayed out.

  • The buttons for "Send Clipboard" and "Get Clipboard" are grayed out.

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Some other facts:

  • The clipboard functions work ok with JollyFastVNC and Chicken of the VNC (but I have other problems with these).
  • Both local and remote systems are on OSX 10.6.8
  • Keyboard and mouse functionality works fine to remote system
  • The remote system's local clipboard works fine -- if I CTL-V in a screen on the remote system, I paste what is on the remote system's clipboard (hope that makes sense)
  • It doesn't matter what app I'm in on the remote system
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Are you sure your clipboard is not empty? Send Clipboard being grayed out would indicate it is. – Gerry Sep 28 '11 at 15:04
Yep, I am sure. I can copy and paste in my local apps just fine. If I copy something from TextWrangler locally, then go to Screen Sharing, I see what I've screenshot above. – joe larson Sep 28 '11 at 15:09
What result do you get from doing it the other way around? so copy from teh shared screen to yours. – Graeme Hutchison Nov 15 '11 at 15:40
I would recommend checking the 'Sharing' preferences on that machine to make sure everything is allowed and there is no conflict with ARD (Remote Management) settings. You might want to just trying turning those two sharing features off then rebooting even. – NOTjust -- user4304 Jan 6 at 1:41

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Have you tried copying from Safari or another native OSX app? Maybe TextWrangler isn't really using the system keyboard?

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great suggestion, but yes, I have, from Outlook, Safari, Chrome... wherever... – joe larson Oct 14 '11 at 14:25
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You can drag and drop what you want to copy over. This works on Lion, and I'd imagine it would work on earlier versions of OS X.

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drag and drop text from my local app to a remote system? or drag and drop files from local finder to remote finder? either way, neither works. – joe larson Oct 19 '11 at 16:57
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You could alternatively use the inbuilt VNC viewer to screen share, it has a "Get Remote Clipboard" and "Put to Remote Clipboard" feature that would overcome the issue you're having.

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