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My VPS provider gave me VNC credentials which I can use to connect to my VPS.

After TightVNC Viewer connects, I want to be able to paste my password. There are a number of buttons on the toolbar, for stuff like 'Send Ctrl-Esc', so why isn't there one for sending the contents of the clipboard ? How can this be achieved ?

The VPS is virtualised with KVM and runs Ubuntu 13.10, and I'm running the Viewer on Windows 7.

Mihai Rotaru
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In my case, what ended up working when using TightVNC from a Windows 10 machine to a Debian machine is the process outlined in this Arch Linux board thread:

  • Install autocutsel
  • In your ~/.vnc/xstartup, run autocutsel -fork before running your desktop manager.

That is, my XFCE xstartup would look as follows:

xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
autocutsel -fork
startxfce4
fuglede
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Try creating a text file (e.g., ~/Desktop/scratch.txt), open it, and paste the content into that first. From there, it can be copied and pasted elsewhere (e.g., terminal).

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Arun Saha
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