[scratt]

A while back there was a beta app out there for sharing your clipboard between machines on a network...

I tried it and had little success with it to be honest...

I was just wondering has anyone used an app that does it, and found it to be any good for their work flow.. And if so, what's it called?

Thanks.

[Gargoyle]

Hmm might be a nice app. There would have to be some sort of interface allowing you to choose what to paste, or which machine to paste from. It would be seriously annoying if "my" clipboard kept on getting overwritten by another machine on the network.

Anyway, as a programmer, most of my copy and paste is done using plain text and the following works quite well.

Machine 1 Create a new text file (filename.txt). Leave it open!
Machine 2 SSH to machine 1 using terminal, and issue the following command: "tail -f filename.txt" (This command will not exit)
Machine 1 Copy text from desired document and paste it into open text file and save it.
Machine 1 The new contents of the file are appended to the terminal winow.

Notes
* You must only add to the text file. If you "Select All", "Delete" and then "Paste". The tail command will just tell you "File Truncated".
* Press CTRL-C to stop the tail command.

If you wanna know why/how this works, use the "man tail" command.

[Gargoyle]

Afterthought...

Although I have used this just messing arround "Just to see if it worked!" kinda thing. When I think about situations where I have wanted to Copy and Paste between machines I have normally done it via a SSH terminal. This is obviously great for text.

Does this work using Remote Desktop?

Can it do images too ?

[scratt]

Thanks Gargoyle.. That will be handy in a pinch..

I do a lot of text copying and pasting, but also need to do graphics from time to time... I wonder if I could expand that idea to get some images to work also... Will have to investigate..

But thanks for the heads up on that.
I will try to locate this app and post about it here.. Perhaps it has moved on.
It did indeed give you a drop down to choose to transfers the clipboard contents from machine to machine and avoid the problem you mentioned.. But that was where it kind of fell down also! As when you tried to do that you invariably got an empty clipboard on both machines!