Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11
On Sun 06 Feb 2022 at 18:03:42 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 11:58:52PM +0100, José Luis González wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 15:59:34 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 09:55:02PM +0100, José Luis González wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Does anybody know why the X copy/paste issue is happening? So far I
> > > > have only got help with time.
> > >
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/02/msg00144.html
> > >
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/02/msg00151.html
> >
> > Thanks for the tip, but I'm afraid it isn't bracketed paste. I'm suffering from this everywhere, not only in bash.
Technically, I think you get bracketed paste through anything that
uses readline (the animal that reads ~/.inputrc).
And before what follows, is dragging actually working?
> What symptom are you actually seeing? What happens when you click the
> middle button, while focus is on a terminal sitting at a bash prompt,
> and while something has been selected?
>
> Do you get a mangled paste? Do you get a correct paste, except that it's
> in "inverse video"? Do you get nothing at all?
>
> If it's nothing at all, how sure are you that it's not a hardware problem?
> Have you tried a different mouse? Have you tried using xev to see whether
> the Button2 up/down events are actually being received by the X server?
As a workaround, do the CUA keys work? That is, cutting with ^X,
copying with ^C and pasting with ^V. Are there menus or options
in XFCE for selecting this method?
Cheers,
David.
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