[Mac-users] Chicken of the VNC clipboard problems

[Gavin]

I have been using "Chicken of the VNC" as my VNC client for many  
years, and I'm pretty happy with it, but I may be forced to change  
soon unless I can sort out the interaction between the remote and  
local clipboards. I'm using remote Linux (FC3) and local Mac OS 10.5.4.

A neat feature of this VNC client is that I can select remote text  
(simply by highlighting, as is usual under Linux), and then paste it  
locally (using the usual Mac OS command-V). That's all fine and dandy,  
but the problem is that the remote clipboard continually reasserts  
itself in the local clipboard. For example, if I copy text from one  
Safari tab and then try to paste it into another, I often find that  
I'm pasting the contents of the Linux clipboard instead.  I can  
mitigate the effect by navigating faster, but I shouldn't have to.   
The VNC client has no business overwriting the clipboard contents when  
there's been no selection action and the app hasn't even received focus.

I can't find anything in the help or preferences that seems to be  
related to this.  I may have seen this behaviour occasionally before,  
but it seems to have gotten much worse recently.  Chicken of the VNC  
doesn't seem to have been updated since 2006, and support requests are  
lying unanswered.

So, any suggestions for how I fix this?  Any recommendation on which  
VNC client I should switch to?

Thanks,
Gavin

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/