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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Pasting text in VI editor from a different editor Post 302234592 by Annihilannic on Wednesday 10th of September 2008 01:52:11 AM
Old 09-10-2008
Okay, so I take it you are not in Windows... are you using VNC or something to connect to a remote server? Or are you directly in front of a PC running Linux with KDE or Gnome or something? And if that is the case, how are you running vi, in an xterm window? Or konsole? Maybe a screenshot would tell a thousand words... :-)
 

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REMOTE-VIEWER(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  REMOTE-VIEWER(1)

NAME

       remote-viewer - a simple remote desktop client

SYNOPSIS

       remote-viewer [OPTIONS] URI

DESCRIPTION

       remote-viewer is a simple remote display client. The supported protocols are SPICE and VNC.

OPTIONS

       The following options are accepted when running "remote-viewer":

       -h, --help
	   Display command line help summary

       -V, --version
	   Display program version number

       -v, --verbose
	   Display information about the connection

       -z PCT, --zoom=PCT
	   Zoom level of the display window in percentage. Range 10-200.

       -f, --full-screen
	   Start with the window maximised to fullscreen

       --spice-controller
	   Use the SPICE controller to initialize the connection with the SPICE server. This option is used by the SPICE browser addons to allow
	   web page to start a client.

       --debug
	   Print debugging information

EXAMPLES

       To connect to SPICE server on host "makai" with port 5900

	  remote-viewer spice://makai:5900

       To connect to VNC server on host "tsingy" with port 5900

	  remote-viewer vnc://tsingy:5900

BUGS

       Report bugs to the mailing list "http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list"

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc., and various contributors.  This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
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SEE ALSO

       "virt-viewer(1)", the project website "http://virt-manager.org"

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