Re: VNC as a teaching tool?

Al Piszcz 'peesh' ()
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:19:56 -0500

It sounds like the internal CORBA version offers features
for customization of the streams (KEYBD/MOUSE/RFB),
is there any plans to release this?

Is it based on OmniORB?

THanks.

> From Thu Mar 26 07:16:38 1998
> To: Wes Barris <>
> cc:
> Subject: Re: VNC as a teaching tool?
> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:18:48 +0000
> From: Tristan Richardson <>
>
>
> > 1) I would like to make all (but one) of the vncviewers "output only"
> > so that the students can see what the instructor is typing without
> > being able to affect the rest of the class with their own mouse and
> > keyboard.
> >
> > I know the Windows version (WinVNC) has a "Disable Remove Keyboard
> > & Pointer" checkbox. Is there anything similar on the client side
> > in the X version?
>
> We use our internal CORBA version to control this kind of thing. The easiest
> way to achieve this is to hack out all the calls to SendKeyEvent,
> SendPointerEvent and SendClientCutText from vncviewer/x.c and recompile
> vncviewer.
>
> >
> > 2) Copy and paste. I would like the students to be able use the mouse to
> > copy strings of text out of the vncviewer window and paste them into an
> > xterm running from their own X server. Is this possible? Right now it
> > looks like a different cut buffer is being used for xterms displayed
> > within the vncviewer. (NOTE: this is in an all-SGI environment.)
>
> If you disable pointer input from a viewer, there is no way that the student
> can select text inside the VNC desktop. However, if the instructor selects
> some text then it should be available for the student to paste -- though
> xcutsel is required for certain apps as Richard Offer mentioned in an earlier
> reply.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tristan
>
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