[Remote Desktop Viewer] Copy & paste results in graphic chars

[NoOp]

Binary package hint: vinagre

It appears that this old bug may be raising it's head again:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vinagre/+bug/309427

If I copy and paste from the terminal on a remote system (both 10.10 w/same vinagre RDV versions) the result in graphic characters. How to reproduce:

1. Open a VNC RDV session to a remote system.
2. On the remote system open a terminal and enter:
cat /etc/lsb-release
3. On the local system via RDV copy and paste the comand & output (highlight with the mouse & then Edit|Copy).
result:
°½Ü{

Now if I repeat the above using the Terminal Server Client, the result is:
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: vinagre 2.30.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.47-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 16 12:34:17 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vinagre

[NoOp (glgxg)]

$ apt-cache policy tsclient
tsclient:
  Installed: 0.150-4ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.150-4ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.150-4ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy vino
vino:
  Installed: 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1
  Candidate: 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.32.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages

The issue can be reproduced across multiple machines & in either direction (remote to local, local to remote).

[kpk187 (kpk187)]

This bug affects me too. However, I'm using Vino 2.28.2 as the server (lucid package)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[NoOp (glgxg)]

My test environment is rather limited. However here is what I've tested:

Remote: Maverick
Local: Natty
Copy & paste from Maverick to Natty works. Copy & paste from Natty to Maverick results in graphics chars.

Remote: Maverick
Local: Oneiric
Copy & paste from Maverick to Oneiric works. Copy & paste from Oneiric to Maverick results in graphics chars.

Sorry, I don't have any Natty-Natty or Oneiric-to-Oneiric setups.

So the problem appears to be within the Maverick verison. Any way to test the Natty version in Maverick?

[NoOp (glgxg)]

As an experiment I installed the natty version of vinagre on maverick:
$ apt-cache policy vinagre
vinagre:
  Installed: 2.30.3-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.30.3-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.3-1ubuntu2 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.30.2-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages

from:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/vinagre

No difference. Perhaps the problem is in vino instead? Attempted to install the natty vino, but cannot due to dependency issues.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for vinagre (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[NoOp (glgxg)]

No activity because no response from any developer. The issue still exists. Marking confirmed as this issue has been confirmed by another user.