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Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11



On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 08:03:55PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> Technically, I think you get bracketed paste through anything that
> uses readline (the animal that reads ~/.inputrc).

Yes.  Potentailly, at least.

> 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?

Those won't work for copy/paste in a shell, of course.  They may work
in a GUI application.  Shift-Insert also tends to work for pasting in
many applications, including rxvt-unicode (my terminal emulator) and
xterm, even when sitting at a shell prompt.


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