The shared clipboard synchronizes your X system clipboard with the clipboards of other conference participants running SGImeeting, Microsoft NetMeeting or PictureTel LiveShare Plus.
When your clipboard is shared:
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data that you copy (or cut) is available to other conference participants to paste into their applications |
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data copied (or cut) by other conference participants (who have also shared their clipboards) is available to you to paste into applications running on your system |
Data may be transferred in any of the following formats.
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text |
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images |
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application-specific formats (such as SGImeeting whiteboard objects) |
Data copied into the X "clipboard selection" is made available to all other systems with shared clipboards in the conference. Typically, this means data copied via the Cut and Copy commands on the Edit menu.
Some applications also use the middle mouse copy-and-paste for quick-pasting. For example, you can select text with the mouse and paste directly into another window with a mouse click. This copy-and-paste technique can also be used in SGImeeting, but only to another UNIX-based conferencing product, as there is no similar concept on Windows. This lets you to copy selected text from a window shared by another system into a locally-running window, as long as both systems have the shared clipboard enabled (see Sharing the Clipboard).
Some applications include cut/copy/paste commands, but do not use the X clipboard mechanism to transfer data (or, in some cases, they use the X clipboard for text, but not for images). Such applications will not interoperate with other X applications, including the SGImeeting shared clipboard. If you experience problems with a particular application, try copying data between that application and another application (such as a shell window, jot text editor, or SGImeeting whiteboard). If the copy-and-paste does not work correctly, then the application is probably not using the X clipboard correctly.
Note: Shared clipboard will not operate at the same time as the "xclipboard" utility, or any other application that uses a similar mechanism for monitoring changes to the X system clipboard. (For the same reason, xclipboard will not operate properly at the same time as another instance of itself.)
Microsoft NetMeeting's shared clipboard functionality is always enabled in a conference. Conference participants using NetMeeting may, therefore, not be aware that their clipboard is "shared" because they do not have to turn the shared clipboard on or off.
To share the clipboard, choose Share Clipboard from the Tools menu. Use this command to turn clipboard sharing off and on.
Note: The clipboard can only be shared when you are in a conference.
To automatically share the clipboard whenever you are in a conference, select Options from the Tools menu and check the "Automatically share clipboard when in a conference" option.
With this option enabled, the shared clipboard is always active when you join a conference.
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