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

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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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date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 José Luis González <bugs.jlg@gmail.com> - 2022-02-06 11:10 +0100
  Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-02-06 11:30 +0100
    Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-06 15:20 +0100
      Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 José Luis González <bugs.jlg@gmail.com> - 2022-02-06 22:00 +0100
  Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-02-06 12:30 +0100
    Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 José Luis González <bugs.jlg@gmail.com> - 2022-02-06 22:00 +0100
  Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2022-02-06 13:10 +0100
    Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-06 15:20 +0100
      Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-06 18:00 +0100
        Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-06 18:20 +0100
          Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-02-06 20:00 +0100
            Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 José Luis González <bugs.jlg@gmail.com> - 2022-02-06 22:00 +0100
              Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-06 22:00 +0100
                Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 José Luis González <bugs.jlg@gmail.com> - 2022-02-07 00:00 +0100
                Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-07 00:10 +0100
                Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-07 03:10 +0100
                Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-07 03:30 +0100
            Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2022-02-07 04:10 +0100
      Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-02-06 18:00 +0100
        Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-02-06 18:10 +0100

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