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Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click, newline not pasted

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On 12/5/21 6:15 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> 
> On 6/12/21 06:56, David Christensen wrote:
>>
>> On Debian 9 (and 10, and earlier?) with Xfce Terminal, when I select 
>> an entire line of text in one terminal and then middle click paste in 
>> another terminal window, the entire line is pasted; including the 
>> newline.
> 
> David
> 
> You need to activate the copy text on highlight option in preferences. 
> As I recall, right click in xterm to get preferences.


Right-click -> "Preferences" ->  "General" -> "Clipboard" -> 
"Automatically copy selection to clipboard" is a checkbox.  Whether 
checked or unchecked, the behavior is the same when I paste an entire 
line into a terminal.


I have previously seen this behavior with Debian 9 and 10 terminals that 
have SSH connections to FreeBSD 12.2.


David

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Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click,  newline not pasted David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-05 21:00 +0100
  Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click,  newline not pasted David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-06 02:30 +0100
  Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click,  newline not pasted Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2021-12-06 03:20 +0100
  Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click,  newline not pasted Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2021-12-06 03:20 +0100
    Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click,  newline not pasted David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-06 03:50 +0100
  Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click, newline not pasted Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2021-12-06 05:40 +0100
    Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click, newline not pasted "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-12-06 09:30 +0100
      Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click,  newline not pasted David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-17 18:00 +0100
    Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click,  newline not pasted David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-06 22:30 +0100
    Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click,  newline not pasted David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-07 02:40 +0100

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