Bug#989664: xterm: .Xresources VT100 override for copy/paste ignored
Package: xterm
Version: 366-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: casey.bessette@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
My .Xresources file has this in it:
!enable copy/paste:
!http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/225062/how-can-i-copy-text-from-xterm-awesome-debian-virtualbox
xterm*VT100.Translations: #override \
Ctrl Shift <Key>V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
Ctrl Shift <Key>C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD)
I run xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources after editing the file. This has enabled me to use ctrl-shift-c to copy and ctrl-shift-v to paste in and out of xterm.
In bullseye, this no longer works. Now if I hit ctrl-shift-c, it acts
no different than if I hit ctrl-c. This worked for me on jessie and stretch. I haven't used buster.
If I modify other lines in my .Xresources file, such as the size of the
font, colors, or xterm geometry, those changes are still honored and
work as expected.
I'm using Xfce 4.16 and X.Org 1.20.11.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.31-12
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-4.2
ii libfreetype6 2.10.4+dfsg-1
ii libice6 2:1.0.10-1
ii libtinfo6 6.2+20201114-2
ii libutempter0 1.2.1-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.1-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1.1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1.1
ii libxft2 2.3.2-2
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.4-2
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2+b3
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-1
ii libxt6 1:1.2.0-1
ii xbitmaps 1.1.1-2.1
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.7+5
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn xfonts-cyrillic <none>
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